Godly indulgence: What makes the deities' diet

Food is an important part of culture, and religion too has not been able to escape from its richness. This has resulted in special foods for gods,…

Himalayan upheavals

NATURAL PREMISES: ECOLOGY AND PEASANT LIFE IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA 1800- 1950·Chetan Singh·Oxford University Press·New Delhi&…

Forests under threat

OXIDANT AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS IN THE MONTANE FORESTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A CASE STUDY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS·Paul R Miller, …

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

A jumbo by the tail

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Time for excitement

ABOUT TIME: EINSTEIN'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION Paul Davies Viking

Nerd calender

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A small matter of death

The Hot Zone Richard Preston Publisher: Doubleday Price: £14.99

Boffins unchained

PROMETHEUS BOUND: SCIENCE IN A DYNAMIC STEADY STATE by John Ziman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: £16.95

Understanding trivia

CATS HAVE NINE LIVES by D Balasubramanian Publisher: Publications and -Information Directorate, New Delhi Price: Rs 50

The hunt for green gold

BIODIVERSITY PROSPECTING Walter V Reid, Rodrigo Gamez et al Publisher: World Resource Institute, INBio, the Rainforest Alliance and the African …

Know your scientists

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS Edited by Trevor Williams Publisher: Harper Collins Price: L25

A pact with evil truth

THE UNNATURAL NATURE OF SCIENCE Lewis Wolpert Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London Price: $20

Science on a platter

MAKE IT CLOUD NINE Bal Phondke Publisher: Publications & Information Directorate, India Price: Rs 50

A life of perseverance

EVERY child has been fed the story of Isaac Newton's discovery of universal gravitation. But what is not told is that this idea did not come to …

Capitalism, heal thyself

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN ECONOMIC REGULATORY POLICY Marcia Lynn Whicker Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Not stated

The genius, the media's darling

EISTEIN LIVED HERE Abraham Pais-Ctarendon Press Oxford University Press-Special Indian Price Rs 325

Grounded fantasy

GUESTS IN THIS COUNTRY: A DEVELOPMENT FANTASY Edited by Greta Rana Publisher: Book Faith India Price: Rs 450 (Nepal)

Guiding light

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Up against a wall

THE END OF SCIENCE·John Horgan· Helix books/ Addison Wesley Publishing Company · Price US $24

Numbers all the way

NATURE'S NUMBERS: DISCOVERING ORDER AND PATTERN IN THE UNIVERSE Ian Steward . Widenfeld and Nicholson . Distributed by India Book House . 1995 . …

Carrot and stick

AN UNEQUAL TREATY: WORLD TRADING ORDER AFTER GATT Muchkund Dubey . New Age International Limited . February, 1996 . Price Rs 125

Nature and culture, no fissure

THE FABER BOOK OF SCIENCE Edited by John Carey . Published by Faber and Faber . Price US $19.5

Complex perplexes

COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS M Mitchell Waldrop . Penguin . 1995 Price US $11.99