BOOK REVIEWS

Pheromones & Animal Behavior (2nd ed)

Tristram D Wyatt

Cambridge University Press, £45.00

Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body

Kevin Fong

Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99

Seeds of Amazonian Plants

Fernando Cornejo and John Janovec

Princetown University Press, £24.95

Microbes, Music and Me: A Life in Science

John Postgate

Memoirs Publishing, £12.99

This book was written in John Postgate's 91st year and reading it is a most enjoyable experience. It reminded me why I chose to do microbiology research. In 1968, as I sought a PhD place, I went to visit him; he was so full of advice and encouragement then and throughout my career.

He doesn't claim this to be an autobiography as such, but rather an account of a

Bad Moves: How Decision Making Goes Wrong and the Ethics of Smart Drugs

Barbara J Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta

Oxford University Press, £14.99

Penguins: Close Encounters

David Tipling

Bloomsbury, £18.00

Penguins seem to be the animal of the moment: films such as Happy Feet and March of the Penguins have solidified their place in popular culture. As one of our most loved birds, a book full of penguin images is always going to be a pleasure to look at, but the personal approach that David Tipling has taken in capturing and recording his images gives Penguins:

Migration Hotspots

Tim Harris

Bloomsbury, £22.50

Temporal Dynamics and Ecological Proces

C K Kelly, M G Bowler and G A Fox (Eds)

Cambridge University Press, £60.00