Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

  • Anthony Aveni
Tauris Parke, £11.95

Rosalyn Yalow: Her Life and Work in Medicine

  • Eugene Straus
Perseus Books, £11, $16

Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

  • Robert Kunzig
Sort of Books, £8.99

“I value this book for its almost exclusive attention to the neglected deep oceans. If it is read by enough lay people, perhaps I shan't have to explain so often that, no, oceanographers don't all go to sea wearing red watch caps, and we don't all have scuba tanks slung over our shoulders.” Alan Longhurst, Nature 399, 425– 426 (1999) — from the review of The Restless Sea, the title under which the book was originally published in 1999.