Book Reviews March 2009

Frogs, flies, and dandelions Menno Schilthuizen Oxford University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0198503938 The origin of new species has always been something of a puzzle - Darwin answered some of the important questions, but left a lot of others unanswered. In Frogs, Flies and Dandelions: The Making of Species Menno Schilthuizen looks into some of the debates on this issue. Continued..

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Nonplussed Julian Havil Princeton University Press, 2007 ISBN: 0691120560 In Nonplussed! : mathematical proof of implausible ideas Julian Havil gives us a collection of mathematical ideas which seem rather counterintuitive, but which turn out to be true when you do the maths. Continued..

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Island on the Edge of the World Charles Maclean Cannongate, 1972 ISBN: 9781841957555 Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda by Charles Maclean tells of a remote group of islands of the coast of Scotland, and of the people who lived there. Continued..

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Making Time Steve Taylor Icon books, 2007 ISBN: 9781840468267 Time - you probably think that you never seem to have enough and would like to be able to slow down its rate of passing. If so then maybe you should take a look at Steve Taylor's book: Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control it Continued..

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Mind, Life and Universe Eduardo Punset and Lynn Margulis Sciencewriters, 2007 ISBN: 9781933392431 Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time contains discussions between Eduardo Punset and a number of well known scientists , taken from interviews made for Punset's TV programme. Continued..

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The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things Surendra Verma New Holland, 2005 ISBN: 1877069205 In The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things Surendra Verma devotes a page to each of 175 scientific topics. Starting with Pythagoras, the book includes such names as Galileo, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking and many more besides. Continued..

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Wind, sand and stars Antoine de Saint-Exupery Penguin, 1939 ISBN: 0141183195 You probably know of Antoine de Saint-Exupery as the author of The Little Prince, but if you're like me you may not know much else about him. In Wind, sand and stars he tells the story of some of his life. Continued..

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Science and Controversy A J Meadows Macmillan, 2008 ISBN: 9780230220201 Norman Lockyer played an important role in the scientific community of the second half of the nineteenth century. In Science and Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder Editor of Nature Jack Meadows tells his story. Continued..

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Letters To A Young Artist Julia Cameron Rider, 2005 ISBN: 1844135594 In Letters to a Young Artist: Building a Life in Art Julia Cameron gives advice to aspiring artists on how to deal with some of the problems they may face. Continued..

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The Secret Life of the Universe Amy Corzine Watkins, 2008 ISBN: 9781905857654 Religion and Science are often seen as opposing one another, but in fact they are both ways of searching for the truth about the universe. Could it be that in time science will come to converge with what has previously been seen as mystical or religous. Such is the claim of Amy Corzine in The Secret Life of the Universe: The Quest for the Soul of Science Continued..

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The Tiger that Isn't Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot Profile Books, 2007 ISBN: 9781861978394 The media are constantly trying to get our attention by proclaiming some shocking statistic or other. InThe Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot help the reader to judge such proclamations - are they really as shocking as they seem. Continued..

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