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Book Reviews April 2011

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The nemesis affair David M RaupNorton, 1999ISBN: 0393319180
It is now accepted that there was a massive meteorite impact about 65 million years ago which was, at least partly, responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs. In The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science , David M Raup describes the more controversial idea that extinction events occur regularly, every 26 to 30 million years. Continued..
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The total library Jorge BorgesPenguin, 2001ISBN: 0141183020
You probably know Jorge Luis Borges best for his short stories such as 'The Library of Babel', but he also wrote plenty of non-fiction. The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 is a collection of his essays. Continued..
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