And before you head for the BA, sharpen up with a few hot
paperbacks. July’s
best include Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World (Hodder,
£12.99, ISBN 0
7472 7745 1) to sharpen scepticism; Michael Crichton’s The Lost World
(Arrow,
£5.99, ISBN 0 09 963781 2)—fiction that offers a painless tutorial
on genetics and risk; Fred Moody’s dissection of Microsoft, I Sing
the Body
Electronic (Coronet, £6.99, ISBN 0 340 64927 5) and Arno Karlen’s
prizewinning Plague’s Progress (Indigo, £6.99, ISBN 0 575
40012 9).
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