Patriarchal science

Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood, by Cynthia Eagle Russett, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, 245 pages, hb $25, £15.95     

Venturing in the science park

High‐Tech Fantasies: Science Parks in Society, Science and Space, by Doreen Massey, Paul Quintas and David Wield, London: Routledge, 1992, 268 pages, hb £40, pb £13     

Only one or two cultures?

One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature, edited by George Levine, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 359 pages, hb $45, pb $12.95     

De‐reifying risk

Risk: Analysis, Perception and Management, by the Royal Society Study Group, London: Royal Society, 1992, 201 pages, pb £15.50

Social Theories of Risk, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Dominic Golding, London/NY: Praeger, 1992, 412 pages, hb £48.50, pb £18.50

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, by Ulrich Beck, London: Sage, 1992, 260 pages, hb £35.00, pb £13.00     

India's environment: The enclosure of nature and the nature of enclosure

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India, by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992, 274 pages, £4.95 pb.

Nature, Culture and Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia, David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995, 376 pages, £19.50.     

Entrepreneurial culture

The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure, by Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, 278 pages, hb $29.95     

(Post)Enlightened Science

The Tragedy of Technology, by Stephen Hill, London: Pluto Press, 1988, 294 pages, hb £27.50, pb £8.95.     

Surviving development

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, by Vandana Shiva, London: Zed Press, 1989, 224 pages, hb £27.95, pb £8.95     

A nuclear novel: Nostradamus Says …

This Is the Way the World Ends, by James Morrow, London: Gollancz, 1987, 319 pages, hb £10.95     

Mental illness and social utility

Richard Warner, Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 380 pages, hb £25     

Mathematician's nightmare

Descartes’ Dream: The World According to Mathematics, by P. J. Davis and R. Hersh, Harvester Press, 1986, 288 pages, hb, £15.95     

The unbearable ideology of genius

Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics, by James Gleick, New York/London: Pantheon/Little Brown, 1992, 532 pages, hb £18.99     

Popularizing Darwin

Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, London: Michael Joseph, 1991, xxi+808 pages, £20.00 hb, £9.99 pb.     

Gender in science

The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, by Londa Schiebinger, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, 355 pages, hb $23.50     

Feeding violence

The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics, by Vandana Shiva, London: Zed Books, 1991, 264 pages, hb £29.95, pb £10.95     

Compromising health

The Health Services Since the War, Vol. 1, Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service Before 1957, by Charles Webster, HMSO, 1988, 479 pages, hb £27.50.     

Review essay

David Farrell Krell,Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing On the Verge (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), xii + 340 pages. 37.50 hb,37.50 hb, 18.95 pb.     

Primate visionary

Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, by Donna Haraway, New York and London: Routledge, 1989, 486 pages, hb £40.     

Democratizing TV?

Television and the Crisis of Democracy, by Douglas Kellner, Boulder, Co: Westview, 1990, 287 pages, hb £17.95, pb £10.95     

Black Athena: Two views

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985, by Martin Bemal, Free Association Books, 1987, 576 pages, hb £30, pb £15