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 Â鶹´«Ã½
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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