BOOK REVIEWS

Career Planning for Research Bioscientists

Sarah Blackford

Wiley-Blackwell, £19.99

The Science Magpie

Simon Flynn

Icon Books, £12.99 

Domestication of Plants in the Old World

Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf & Ehud Weiss

Oxford University Press, £55.00

Ginkgo

Peter Crane
Yale University Press, £25.00

The Self Illusion: Why There is No ‘You’ Inside Your Head

Bruce Hood

Constable and Robinson, £12.99 

Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide

Heimo Mikkola

Christopher Helm/Bloomsbury, £35.00

Fighting for Birds: 25 years in nature conservation

Mark Avery

Pelagic Publishing, £12.99

Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law: Fighting for Social Justice

Felicity Callard et al

Wiley-Blackwell, £69.99