The Private Life of the Brain
by Susan Greenfield
Penguin, £5.99, ISBN 0140264914
Susan Greenfield is the neuroscientist from Oxford who is already very well known as...
Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry
by Frank Close
Oxford University Press, £8.99, ISBN 019866267X
Lucifer’s Legacy is as much a history of particle physics as it...
Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches
by Malcolm Gaskill
4th Estate, £15.99, ISBN 1841150192
In March 1944, Scottish working-class spiritualist Helen Duncan was tried at the Old...
Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind
by Henry Hobhouse
Papermac, £12, ISBN 0333736281
Not a new book, having been first published in 1985 before reappearing...
The ParaScience Pack
by Uri Geller and Ron van der Meer
Van der Meer Publishing, £29.99, ISBN 1902413520
It’s not every book that comes complete with its...
The Queen's Conjuror: the science and magic of Doctor Dee
by Benjamin Woolley
HarperCollins, £15.99, ISBN 0002571390
This fascinating book begins with a gripping introduction in which...
Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
by Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi
Penguin, £20.00, ISBN 0713993081
If you have ever read (or tried) Edelman’s previous books you might...