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