23 January 2008 | Hoeppe, Reviewing, Science & literature, TLS | Post a comment
This week’s Times Literary Supplement contains my review of Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life, by Götz Hoeppe (Princeton). I reviewed it originally at the end of 2007 and included it in my Books of the Year.
Unfortunately, the TLS haven’t put it online yet, but if you’re feeling in the mood for some blue sky thinking then you can read my version here.
I’m the author of four books. The most recent is City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age. Before that I wrote a cultural history of science and superweapons called Doomsday Men, a biography of Einstein, and a study of science and literature. More
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