Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs & Safeguarding Health

  • Pietro Croce
Zed Books, £14.95

Energies: An Illustrated Guide to Biosphere and Civilization

  • Vaclav Smil
MIT $15.95, £9.95

In the Eye of the Beholder: The Science of Face Perception

  • Vicki Bruce &
  • Andy Young
Oxford University Press, £14.99

“Explains the importance of the face, how we extract the information it contains, reveal what it all means.” Nature 393, 752 (1998)

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

  • Donald D. Hoffman
W. W. Norton, $17.95, £12.95

“I would be surprised if even the most experienced visual scientists do not learn much from Hoffman's guidance . . . The moral of Visual Intelligence is that we have spent so long in Plato's cave that our brains can now derive what is really out there from the merest flickering of shadows on the wall.” John C. Marshall Nature 396, 36 (1998)

Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

  • Lyall Watson
Penguin, £5.99

“Lyall Watson's easy, flowing text picks its way through the comparative anatomy, biochemistry and evolutionary biology of olfactory communication . . . . Its uncritical approach will only fuel further speculation about the supposed supernatural powers of the sense of smell.” Michael Stoddart, Nature 405, 124 (2000)