Books December 2009

Book Reviews December 2009

What's Next Max Brockman	Quercus, 2009	ISBN: 9781847247407
What are the hot scientific topics going to be over the next few decades? In What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science Max Brockman gets some of the young scientists at the forefront of current research to write about where they think their science is heading. Continued..

Seeing the Elephant Eric Scigliano	Bloomsbury, 2002	ISBN: 0747574715
Elephants are intelligent and powerful animals, and it's not surprising that humans have often formed bonds with these creatures. In Seeing the Elephant: The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans Eric Scigliano looks at examples of our relationship with elephants through the ages. Continued..

Colour:Travels through the Paintbox Victoria Finlay	Hodder and Stoughton, 2002	ISBN: 9780340936405
If you want to paint you expect to be able to buy whatever colours you want fairly simply - you don't expect to worry that some will be hard to find or too expensive. Today, that is a reasonable expectation, but it wasn't always that way. At one time your painting could well have had to wait until you had the right pigment, and then you would have needed to be as much chemist as artist. In Colour:Travels through the Paintbox Victoria Finlay tells the stories of lots of many of the colours that you might see in art galleries. Continued..