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From stories of wildlife in unforeseen form to rise of environmental illnesses, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and …

The Sixth Extinction

THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward Wilson Publisher: Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press Price: $29.95

Dig and forget

Minerals and Ecology S P Banerjee Publisher: Oxford & 1BH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd Price: Not stated

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

A jumbo by the tail

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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

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The genius, the media's darling

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

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

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

Gateway to success

THE ROAD AHEAD Bill Gates (with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson) . Viking(UK), Viking Penguin (USA) . Price US $26.25