Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Although the blurb uses the strong word 'debunking' this book is in fact more about setting the record straight by correcting misrepresentations and misconceptions about…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Letters from the Malay Archipelago
Authors: Alfred Russel Wallace, John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaker
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Natural History / History Of Science
The Network held a conference in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the joint paper delivered to the Linnean Society by Wallace and Darwin.…… Read More »
Failure
This is the sequel to the author's book Ignorance, and builds on some of its insights. The main thrust of the book will be familiar…… Read More »
Moons
This very short introduction will tell you all you need to know about moons. Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter through his telescope in January…… Read More »
Moonstruck
The author comes from a background of marine zoology and has taken an interest not only in circadian rhythms and chronobiology but now also in…… Read More »
BLACK EARTH - the Holocaust as History & Warning
As its title implies, this is a very dark book about a very dark subject; the Holocaust and its causes. Snyder's innovative theory is that…… Read More »
CONSOLATIONS
David Whyte is an internationally acclaimed poet who also speaks in a business context. I remember him at the 1997 State of the World Forum…… Read More »
AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO EDUCATION
Some readers may know that Tony Little has just retired as Head Master of Eton College – this very engaging book is his formal educational…… Read More »
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
Grevel Lindop's new and excellent biography opens with Charles Williams, who, by poverty, was forced to abandon his formal education at seventeen, lecturing to spellbound,…… Read More »
ANGER IS AN ENERGY
Much as I love my thrice-annual copy of the Network magazine, I find the articles and book reviews, while fascinating, sometimes thematically rather similar, dealing…… Read More »