Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains and Societies Reconstruct the Past

Edited by:
  • Daniel L. Schacter
Harvard University Press, $17.95, £11.95

“Provides an outstanding multidisciplinary perspective on memory accuracy”, Martin A. Conway, Nature 380, 214 214 (1996).

Atmosphere, Climate, and Change

  • Thomas E. Graedel &
  • Paul J. Crutzen>
W. H. Freeman/Scientific American Library, $19.95, £15.95

“A wonderful introduction to the intricacies of a modern science relevant to serious questions confronting humankind”, P. Brimblecombe, Nature 375, 202 202 (1995).

The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball

  • Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Wiley, $16.95

“Very well-written and rewarding⃛ an excellent account”, Philip Ball, Nature 372 514 514 (1994).

Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America

  • Sheila Jasanoff
Harvard University Press, $17.95, £11.95

“This is a perceptive and elegantly written book on how science and law interact both to produce knowledge and to resolve conflict”, George J. Annas, Nature 379 501 501 (1996).

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time

  • Huw Price
Oxford University Press, £9.99

“An attempt to grapple with the⃛ problems of the arrow of time with a high degree of analytical care”, John D. Barrow, Nature 383, 228 228 (<1996).

Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics: The Astrophysics of Neutrinos, Axions, and Other Weakly Interacting Particles

  • Georg G. Raffelt
Chicago University Press, $42, £33.50

“An extensive and expert review⃛ a detailed compendium of results for the serious student”, Michael L. Cherry, Nature 384, 128 128 ().

The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball

  • Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Wiley, $16.95

“Very well-written and rewarding⃛ an excellent account”, Philip Ball, Nature 372 514 514 (1994).

Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

  • Peter Raby
Princeton University Press, $14.95

 “Extremely readable”, D. E. Allen, Nature 383, 491 491 (1996).