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Book Reviews September 2010

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The Queen of Spades Alexander PushkinOxford University Press, 1997ISBN: 9780199538652
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a translation into English of the main prose works of 19th Century Russsian writer Alexander Pushkin Continued..
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The Big Year Mark ObmascikBantam, 2004ISBN: 0553815512
Some people can get pretty obsessive about their hobbies, but there can be few who compare with the three birdwatchers described by Mark Obmascik in The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession Continued..
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Complexity : a guided tour Melanie MitchellOxford University Press, 2009ISBN: 9780195124415
Many scientists are trying to find underlying rules which govern the behaviour of the complex systems we find around us. In Complexity : a guided tour Melanie Mitchell gives an overview of the field. Continued..
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Serendipities Umberto EcoWeidenfield & Nicholson, 1999ISBN: 0297643258
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco, on topics related to the history of languages, mostly relating to those situations where things didn't quite work out. Continued..
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The Master and his Emissary Iain McGilchristYale University Press, 2009ISBN: 9780300148787
In The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist puts forward the hypothesis that many of the problems of our society are due to 'left-hemisphere' thinking, which has supplanted the more balanced view of the right hemisphere. Continued..
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Why Evolution is True Jerry A CoyneOxford University Press, 2009ISBN: 9780199230846
There's been some loud opposition to evolutionary ideas, and this may make people think that evolutionary theory is riddled with holes. In Why Evolution is True Jerry A Coyne argues that this is far from the case, showing strong the evidence for evolution actually is. Continued..
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