BOOK REVIEWS

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

Jim Baggott
Constable, £12.99

Organic Production and Food Quality: A Down to Earth Analysis

Robert Blair
Wiley-Blackwell, £130.00

Birds and People

Mark Cocker and David Tipling
Jonathan Cape, £40.00

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury Publishing, £20.00

Radar Entomology: Observing Insect Flight and Migration

Alistair Drake and Don Reynolds
CABI, £155.00

Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity

David Blatner

Bloomsbury Publishing, £12.99

If you are at all curious about your place in the universe, or how the very small compares to the very large, then you should read this book. If you have never been curious about the universe, then you should also read this book. I guarantee you will enjoy it and if nothing else you will never again be short of

Biological Emergence-based Evolutionary Mechanism (BEEM)

Raju Pookottil
Fossil Fish Publishing, £9.00

Hunting the Hunters: At War with the Whalers

Laurens de Groot

Adlard Coles Nautical, Bloomsbury, £12.99

With the extensive news coverage of the activities and arrests of the Greenpeace Arctic 30 in 2013, Hunting the Hunters must certainly be a timely publication for anyone wanting to find out more about the life of an activist. Set at the opposite end of the planet in the freezing