BOOK REVIEWS

The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as Science

Steve Jones
Abacus, £9.99

Funding Your Career in Science

Ritsert C Jansen
Cambridge University Press, £16.99

Penguins: Their World, Their Ways

Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, Julie Cornthwaite

Christopher Helm, £35.00

This substantial and comprehensive volume is based on the 18 species of penguins found worldwide. With more than 400 high quality photographs and up-to-date scientific research, this is an impressive work with high visual impact.

Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth

Jim Baggott
Constable, £12.99

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty and Economics for a Warming World

William Nordhaus
Yale University Press, £20.00

Birds and People

Mark Cocker and David Tipling
Jonathan Cape, £40.00

Bayesian Theory and Applications

Paul Damien, Petros Dellaportas, Nicholas G Polson and David A Stephens (Eds)
Oxford University Press, £95.00

Radar Entomology: Observing Insect Flight and Migration

Alistair Drake and Don Reynolds
CABI, £155.00