The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists

by István Hargittai

Oxford University Press £9.99

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

Penguin $16 (US), $24 (Canada)

“Pinker presents an overarching view of the world in a way that quite a few readers will find seductive”. David Hull Nature 419, 251–252 (2002).

Genetic Destinies

by Peter Little

Oxford University Press £8.99

Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex From Animals

by Marlene Zuk

California University Press $16.95, £10.95

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

by Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz and Eric Bonabeau

Princeton University Press $35, £22.95