Reviews

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson Allen Lane, £14.99, ISBN 0713994002 What exactly have ants got in common with cities,...

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner Norton, $14.95, ISBN 0393322386 Did HG Wells predict the Internet? Does reflexology have a foot to...

Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by James Houran and Rense Lange (Editors) McFarland & Company, £76.50, ISBN 0786409843 This is an excellent book for anyone with a...

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking Random House, £16.99, ISBN 1856866661 In 1995, my wife and I went on a tour of Egypt, booked from...

Netherworld: Discovering the Oracle of the Dead and Other Ancient Methods of Divination by Robert Temple Century, £17.99, ISBN 0712684042 A frustrating book on an interesting subject....

The Book of Nothing by John D Barrow Vintage, £8.99, ISBN 0099288451 Barrow is a professor of mathematical sciences, and author of “Theories of Everything” and “Impossibility”. This...

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara Icon Books, £9.99, ISBN 1840463481 “Electricity has one considerable advantage over most other branches of science,...

How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies The Penguin Press, £9.99, ISBN 0713995831 Like “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” with a bodice-ripping cover, this little...