Paperbacks which both challenge and delight for pleasure and brain strain
include Ian Tattersall鈥檚 The Fossil Trail (Oxford University Press,拢11.99,
ISBN 0 19 510981 3) and Wiebe Bijker鈥檚 Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs (MIT
Press, 拢13.50, ISBN 0 262 52227 6). Reviewed favourably in New Scientist
at the time of their hardback release, Tattersall examines the techniques which
tell us about our evolutionary past, while Bijker鈥檚 traces some unexpected
impacts of inventions on our way of life.
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