Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Jim Rossi
Does religion emerge from an innate psychological drive, as an outgrowth of human culture or as a random meme? Here Jim Rossi, offers his comments on the interpretation that Pascal Boyer offers in "Religion Explained." Available from Amazon.com
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Tom Fyles
Books by Nature magazine editor, Philip Ball, and Canadian Governor General's Award winning writer, Marq de Villiers, on the science and sociology of water that, together, provide a comprehensive portrait of a chemical that has played, and that will play, a dominant role in life in general, and contemporary human life in particular
JOURNAL REVIEW: A Special Issue of Perspectives in Human Biology: Is human evolution a closed chapter?
C. Loring Brace
Contributions to this collection of review articles and research reports were originally presented at the joint conference of the Australasian Society for Human Biology (ASHB) and the Commission of Human Ecology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), held in Adelaide, Australia in December 1997
JOURNAL REVIEW: A Special Issue of Perspectives in Human Biology: Dento-facial variation in perspective
Stephen Molnar
This journal issue offers a collection of peer-reviewed research reports covering a broad range of topics relating to human dento-facial structures and cranial variation that were among those presented at the 1997 Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Human Biology, held in conjunction with the Fifth World Academic Conference on Human Ecology
DARK LIFE: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space: By Michael Ray Taylor
Edward E. Ishiguro
In the latter part of the 20th century, exotic microorganisms were discovered that inhabit some of the most hostile environments on Earth, including undersea lava vents and hotsprings. The author, a journalist, chronicles his 10-year search for these so-called "extremophiles." Canadian microbiologist Edward Ishiguro provides an informed review. The book is available from Amazon.com
Powering the Future
Tom Koppel
Excerpted from Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to
Change the World. Copyright (c) 1999 by Tom Koppel
Excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This book is available at all bookstores, online booksellers, including Amazon.com, and from the Wiley Web site (or call 1-800-225-5945)
A RUM AFFAIR How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was Unmasked: By Karl Sabbagh
Edward Teague
Was Professor John Heslop-Harrison, FRS, a fraudster who deserved posthumous unmasking, or was he a distinguished scientist vilified in this offering from Penguin books on the basis of, at worst, scientifically unimportant peccadillos in order to serve the interest of an attention-seeking author and a profit-seeking publisher. Our reviewer, who has direct personal knowledge of many of the personalities who were privy to matters related in this book, weighs the evidence
 WOLF COUNTRY: Eleven Years Tracking the Algonquin Wolves: By John B. Theberge and Mary T. Theberge
Lu Carbyn
A readable and informative reply to loggers, farmers, hunters and politicians who question the value of the endangered Algonquin wolf in maintaining the balance of its native ecosystem
Available from Amazon.com
LAMENT FOR AN OCEAN
The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True
Crime Story
Lawrence Hamilton
A review of Michael Harris's outspoken account of the mistakes leading to the collapse of Newfoundland's cod fishery, a forerunner of similar crises around the world
Available from Amazon.com
FISHERIES MISMANAGEMENT: The Case of the North Atlantic Cod: By Rognvaldur Hannesson
Ussif Rashid Sumaila
On the management policies preceding the recent catastrophic declines in North Atlantic cod stocks
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Impostures Intellectuelles: By Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Kevin Mulligan
On the misuse of scientific concepts and terminology by post-modernist writers Available from Amazon.com
Progress, Poverty and Population: Re-Reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus: By John Avery
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Why Malthus' prognostication of doom may yet again be premature
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The Fabric of Reality: By David Deutsch
Bryce DeWitt
A distinguished relativist shares David Deutsch's confidence in the existence of parallel universes, but not his faith in the possibility of explaining everything
Available from Amazon.com
Entheogens and the Future of Religion: Edited by Robert Forte
William Lunny
Canadian theologian William Lunny suggests that faith through pharmacology will not provide a universal means of salvation
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