Book Reviews September 2011

The disappearing spoon Sam Kean Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN: 9780316051644 The periodic table is a familiar sight to those who have sat in a science class, but the poster on the wall does little to suggest the stories which lie behind the elements it lists. In The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Sam Kean tells us some of these stories. Continued..

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The worldly philosophers Robert Heilbroner Penguin, 2000 ISBN: 0140290060 The worldly philosophers: The lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers by Robert Heilbroner explores the progess of economics by describing the work of the principal contributors to the subject since its beginnings a few centuries ago. Continued..

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Audubon's Elephant Duff Hart-Davis Orion Books, 2003 ISBN: 0753817888 Editions of Audubon's Birds of America fetch high prices at auction nowadays, but when they were originally produced it took a considerable amount of effort to find buyers. In Audubon's Elephant: The story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish 'The Birds of America' Duff Hart-Davis tells of what Audubon went through. Continued..

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Here on Earth Tim Flannery Allen Lane, 2010 ISBN: 9781846143960 Some people think of the Earth as an organism, but this raises the question of what effect humans are having on this organism. Are we a benevolent control centre or are we more like a disease. Such questions are considered by Tim Flannery in his latest book Here on Earth: a new beginning Continued..

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