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• The chances are that Gordon Brown is a loser

  Aug 17 2008:

  Review: The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
  We don't have to blame the gods any more, Mlodinow tells us. We don't have to blame ourselves. We can blame the dice says David Smith

• Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology by John North
  At nearly 900 pages, this is a suitably monumental book about the biggest subject of all: the cosmos

• To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate by Dallas Murphy
  Dallas Murphy, a novelist and keen sailor, believes the ocean has been left out of the climate change debate

• The Wild Trees

  Aug 9 2008:

  Review: The Wild Trees by Richard Preston

• Long may you run

  Aug 9 2008:

  Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by David Boyd Haycock
  Ian Pindar on 400 years of research into prolonging life

• Paperback of the week

  Aug 3 2008:

  Tom Chatfield: There's an ancient tension in the phrase 'nature writing'

• Code breaker

  Aug 2 2008:

  Review: Microcosm: E coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer

• Shark

  Aug 1 2008:

  Review: Shark by Dean CrawfordSharks have got a bad press: they're not much interested in humans, finding them a bit stringy and bony

• Crap at the Environment

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: Crap at the Environment

• The Wild Places

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

• Relative values and the passage of time

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: Making Time by Steve Taylor
  There is plenty to entertain us in this mind-bending book, says Nicholas Lezard

• Water, water, everywhere

  Jul 26 2008:

  Review: Take Me to the Source by Rupert Wright
  Giles Foden enjoys the ebb and flow of a book whose subject impinges on everything we do

• Is this the end of hives of activity?

  Jul 20 2008:

  Review: A World Without Bees by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum and The Buzz About Bees by Jürgen Tautz

  All over the world, honeybee populations are dying out, says Robin McKie, and their decline threatens the very way we live and eat

• Ode to joy

  Jul 19 2008:

  Review: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
  An odyssey to find the secret of happiness puts David Newnham in rather good spirits

• Quantum poetics

  Jul 19 2008: Author, author: Writing about space is difficult. Since the time of Lucretius, poetry has taken science - investigations of nature - as part of its legitimate subject matter, writes Nick Laird

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