Articles & Reviews
2008
- "Look and learn", Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf
Guardian, April 12, 2008
- "Murder, he wrote", The Father of Forensics, by Colin Evans
Guardian, April 19, 2008
- 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London, by R Ashton; Sex & the Psyche: The Truth About Our Most Secret Fantasies, by B Kahr
Guardian, February 2, 2008
- China: A-Z, by Kai Strittmatter; Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, by Rana Mitter
Guardian, March 15, 2008
- Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, by L Day; A Perfect Mess, by E Abrahamson & D Freedman
Guardian, January 19, 2008
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by L Brown; The Music of Life, by Denis Noble
Guardian, February 16, 2008
- The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb; Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, by J Rosenthal
Guardian, March 1, 2008
- The Canon: The beautiful basics of science, by Natalie Angier
Independent, 31 March 2008
- The Firecracker Boys, by Dan O'Neill; The Transition Handbook, by Rob Hopkins
Guardian, March 29, 2008
- The Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux; The Archimedes Codex, by R Netz and W Noel
Guardian, April 12, 2008
- The Spaces of the Modern City, ed by G Prakash & K Kruse; Consumed, by B Barber
Guardian, May 10, 2008
- Utopian Dreams, by Tobias Jones; After Atheism, by Mark Vernon
Guardian, January 5, 2008
- When Life Nearly Died, by M J Benton; Mind, Life and Universe, ed by L Margulis & E Punset
Guardian, April 26, 2008
- Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life, by Götz Hoeppe
Times Literary Supplement, January 25, 2008
2007
- "A plague on all our houses", Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History, by Dorothy Crawford
Guardian, December 8, 2007
- "Ambassadors of the soul", The Eye: A Natural History, by Simon Ings; Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture, by Stuart Clark
Guardian, 2 June 2007
- "Beep beep beep", Red Moon Rising, by Matthew Brzezinski; Iron Curtain, by Patrick Wright
Guardian, November 17, 2007
- "Culture clash", Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism, by Erhard Bahr
Times Literary Supplement, August 17, 2007
- "Masters of rock", Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, by Ted Nield
Guardian, October 6, 2007
- "Reluctant polymath", The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
Guardian, 20 January 2007
- "The man beneath the electrified halo of hair", Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
Guardian, August 25, 2007
- "You can understand quantum mechanics!", The Universe: A Biography, by John Gribbin
Independent, 29 March 2007
- Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty, by James Buchan; Sky in a Bottle, by Peter Pesic
Guardian, May 12, 2007
- Book of a Lifetime - Franz Kafka’s "Josephine the Singer"
Independent, June 22, 2007
- Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, by William Bryant Logan; Earthquakes in Human History, by de Boer & Sanders
Guardian, 17 March 2007
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert; Climate Change, ed by JFC DiMento and P Doughman
Guardian, September 15, 2007
- Garden Natural History, by Stefan Buczacki; Rise and Shine: Sunlight, Technology and Health, by Simon Carter
Guardian, June 9, 2007
- Hollow Earth, by David Standish; The Mercurial Emperor, by Peter Marshall
Guardian, September 1, 2007
- Homo Britannicus, by Chris Stringer; The Man Who Ran the Moon, by Piers Bizony
Guardian, July 21, 2007
- JD Bernal, by Andrew Brown; A World Without Time, by Palle Yourgrau
Guardian, April 28, 2007
- Letters to a Young Mathematician, by I Stewart; In Search of Memory, by E Kandel
Guardian, 26 May 2007
- Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, by Jenny Uglow; iWoz, by Steve Wozniak
- Plows, Plagues and Petroleum, by W F Ruddiman; City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, by Peter Parsons
Guardian, December 22, 2007
- Seven Tenths, by James Hamilton-Paterson; Seed to Seed, by Nicholas Harberd
Guardian, April 14, 2007
- Spying on the Bomb, by Jeffrey T Richelson; Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History, ed by Richard Holmes
Guardian, October 27, 2007
- Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J. S Haldane, by Martin Goodman
Times, August 4, 2007
- The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, by L Kalof; In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, by SS Schweber
Guardian, 31 March 2007
- The Grand Contraption, by David Park; The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide, by A Hart-Davis and P Bader
Guardian, July 7, 2007
- The History of Science Fiction, by Adam Roberts; When Computers Were Human, by David Alan Grier
Guardian, November 10, 2007
- The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change, by Fred Pearce; Water Under Threat, by Larbi Bouguerra
Guardian, 6 Jan 2007
- The Life and Death of Planet Earth, by Ward & Brownlee; What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, ed by John Brockman
Guardian, 4 August 2007
- The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism, by Dick Taverne; In the Heart of the Amazon Forest, by Walter Henry Bates
Guardian, 17 Feb 2007
- The Portable Atheist, ed by Christopher Hitchens; Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates, by D. Wootton
Guardian, December 8, 2007
- The Revenge of Gaia, by James Lovelock; Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould
Guardian, 3 March 2007
- Under the Sea-Wind, by Rachel Carson; The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, by EO Wilson
Guardian, October 13, 2007
- What Makes Us Human?, ed by Charles Pasternak; Taking the Proverbial, by Geoff Rolls
Guardian, November 24, 2007
- What's Science Ever Done for Us?, by Paul Halpern; Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939, by G. de Syon
Guardian, August 18, 2007
2006
- "A glass of wine and a bullet to bite", The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain, by Thomas Dormandy
Guardian, 19 August 2006
- "Change or die", Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, by George Monbiot
Guardian, 30 September 2006
- "Gravity eclipsed", Einstein's Jury: The race to test relativity, by Jeffrey Crelinsten
Times Literary Supplement, July 21, 2006
- "Intriguing yet uneasy amalgam into 'the greatest of all human adventures' ", The Beginner's Guide To Winning The Nobel Prize, by Peter Doherty
Independent, 06 July 2006
- "Life for this cloning pioneer won't be the same again", After Dolly, by Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield
Independent, 08 August 2006
- "Our sneezing, wheezing plague", Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson (Reaktion)
Guardian, July 29, 2006
- "The fire in Lonesome George's loins", Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon, by Henry Nicholls
Guardian, 13 May 2006
- "The hidden assassin", One in Three: A Son's Journey into the History and Science of Cancer, by Adam Wishart
Guardian, 9 September 2006
- "The ragged-trousered alchemist", The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, by Philip Ball
Guardian, 28 January 2006
- "The secret of life with a pint of bitter", Francis Crick, by Matt Ridley
Independent, 22 September 2006
- "Who cares when the rockets come down?", Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema, by Christopher Frayling
Guardian, 25 February 2006
- Conversations on Consciousness, by Susan Blackmore; The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, by Elisabeth A Lloyd
Guardian, 9 December 2006
- Sky in a Bottle, by Peter Pesic
Times Literary Supplement, August 4, 2006
- The End of the World: From Revelation to Eco-Disaster, by S Pearson; The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists Are Taking a Leaf From Nature's Book, by P Forbes
Guardian, 2 September 2006
- The Evolution-Creation Struggle, by Michael Ruse; Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, by Nick Lane
Guardian, 23 December 2006
- The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, by Bynum & Porter; The Google Story, by David Vise
Guardian, 30 September 2006
- What We Believe But Cannot Prove, ed by John Brockman; Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens, by Deborah Cadbury
Guardian, 19 August 2006
2005
- "Heart of the atom", The Fly in the Cathedral: How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom, by Brian Cathcart
Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2005
- "The cutting edge", The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery, by Wendy Moore
Guardian, 12 March 2005
- "The genius of space and time", the best books of the 2005 Einstein Year
Guardian, 17 September 2005
- "Time lords", Transformations, by Mike Ashley
Guardian, 30 April 2005
- "Time, space and problem hair", exhibition: Albert Einstein: Man of the Century, The Jewish Museum, London
Times Literary Supplement, 11 November 2005
2004
- "Before the flood", Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Guardian, 17 January 2004
- "Eureka!", Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations, by John Waller
Guardian, 11 December 2004
- "Here be monsters", White Devils, by Paul McAuley
Guardian, 21 February 2004
- "How a child becomes a scientist", When We Were Kids, ed by John Brockman
Independent, 06 December 2004
- "In the ditch", Literature and Science, 1660–1834, ed by Judith Hawley
Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2004
- "Mind map", Mind Wide Open: One Man's Journey into the Workings of His Brain, by Steven Johnson
Guardian, 15 May 2004
- "On reflection ...", Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection, by Mark Pendergrast
Guardian, 27 March 2004
- "Tasty tale of the tortoise", A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise, by Paul Chambers
Guardian, 31 July 2004
- In Albert's Shadow: The life and letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's first wife, by Milan Popovic
Times Literary Supplement, January 16, 2004
- Science, reading, and renaissance literature: The art of making knowledge, by Elizabeth Spiller
Times Literary Supplement, September 3, 2004
2003
- "Blood ties", Pointing From the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA, by Samantha Weinberg
Guardian, 1 March 2003
- "Fear factory", How to Build a Nuclear Bomb and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Frank Barnaby
Guardian, 11 October 2003
- "Lichens and other likenings", The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, by David Freedberg
Guardian, 1 February 2003
- "Nature's revenge", Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Guardian, 26 July 2003
- "Relativity was not just Einstein's monster", Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps, by Peter Galison
Independent, 20 September 2003
- "Where did it all go right? 2004 will be dominated by the big questions, says PD Smith"
Guardian, 27 December 2003
- "Wrestling with devils", Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact, by John Cornwell
Guardian, 1 November 2003
2002
- "Back at the lab", Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller; The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century by Rupert Lee
Guardian, 12 October 2002
- "Beautiful minds", It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, ed by Graham Farmelo
Guardian, 16 March 2002
- "Best wear a good thick skirt", Landscape, Nature, & the Body Politic by K Olwig; The Politics of Nature by N Roe; Romanticism & the Materiality of Nature by O Oerlemans; In Nature's Name, ed B Gates
Guardian, 22 June 2002
- "Darwinism in a flutter", Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy & the Peppered Moth, by Judith Hooper
Guardian, 11 May 2002
- "Keeping Mother Nature in the family", Chance in the House of Fate: a natural history of heredity, by Jennifer Ackerman
Independent, 25 January 2002
- "Nor am I out of it", Die Vertreibung aus der Holle, by Robert Menasse
Times Literary Supplement, March 22, 2002
- "The shadow of the beast", Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Guardian, 21 December 2002
- "Why physics can be fun," Science: A History, 1543-2001, by John Gribbin
Guardian, 21 September 2002
- "With fame I become more stupid", The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7, The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921, ed Michel Janssen, et al
Guardian, 31 August 2002
- The One Culture? A conversation about science, ed by Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins
Times Literary Supplement, July 26, 2002
2001
- "Fiction of the fatal kind", Agnes, by Peter Stamm. Translated by Michael Hofmann
Times Literary Supplement, April 21, 2001
- "Gene pool", Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey and Annie's Box by Randal Keynes
Guardian, 15 December 2001
- "Journals: Literature", Publications of the English Goethe Society
Times Literary Supplement, March 23, 2001
- "Man behaving (relatively) badly", Einstein in Love: a scientific romance, by Dennis Overbye
Independent, 01 June 2001
- "Saying the world", Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing, by Michael André Bernstein
Times Literary Supplement, January 12, 2001
- "The uses of enchantment", Literature and the Gods, by Roberto Calasso
Financial Times, August 11, 2001
- "The wingbeat of the unknown", Grammars of Creation, by George Steiner
Times Literary Supplement, April 6, 2001
- Hampels Fluchten, by Michael Kumpfmuller
Times Literary Supplement, June 1, 2001
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