This fortnight sees a good crop of books out in paperback. Get a clear view
of vision in all its complexity from cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman in
Visual Intelligence (W. W. Norton, 拢12.95, ISBN 0393319679). New
Scientist’s reviewers also liked the following three published by Harvard.
“Excellent, erudite and interesting” is how Roger Newton’s The Truth of
Science: Physical Theories and Reality (拢10.50, ISBN 0674001818) was
described. Or try Lee Dugatin’s Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees
(拢9.50, ISBN 0674001672) for “a new way of thinking about human
society”.
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