BOOK REVIEWS

Written in Blood

Mike Silverman and Tony Thompson
Bantam Press, £18.99

White Beech, The Rainforest Years

Germaine Greer
Bloomsbury, £25.00

Cultural Severance and the Environment

Ian D Rotherham (Ed)

Springer, £117.00

The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as Science

Steve Jones
Abacus, £9.99

Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour And Conservation

Anne Innis Dagg
Cambridge University Press, £50.00

Penguins: Their World, Their Ways

Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, Julie Cornthwaite

Christopher Helm, £35.00

This substantial and comprehensive volume is based on the 18 species of penguins found worldwide. With more than 400 high quality photographs and up-to-date scientific research, this is an impressive work with high visual impact.

Plant Conservation: Why It Matters and How It Works

Timothy Walker
Timber Press, £14.99

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty and Economics for a Warming World

William Nordhaus
Yale University Press, £20.00