by Dave Bradley | Aug 13, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Paul Edmondson (Profile) 2015, 186pp, RRP $19.99 Edmondson, a prolific Shakespeare author and know-all, contributes to the ‘Ideas In Profile’ series with this very accessible study of why Shakespeare matters in this jaded modern day, something worth pondering after...
by Dave Bradley | May 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Spiegelhalter (Profile) 2015, 368pp, RRP $27.99 Renowned statistician, author and academic Spiegelhalter, in a lengthy attempt to draw conclusions regarding human sexuality from what seems endless sources, wisely notes here that statistics are a perennially...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 20, 2014 | Books, Reviews
New Scientist and Editor Mick O’Hare (Profile Books) 2014, 281pp, RRP $19.99 The latest instalment in the New Scientist book series drawn from that publication’s ‘Last Word’ column (that also includes Why Can’t Elephants Jump?, Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? and other...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 28, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Susan Hill (Profile Books) 2014, 106pp, RRP $24.99 Hill’s ghost stories are always overshadowed by her greatest spooky success: the 1983 novel The Woman In Black, which inspired an amazingly popular play (the second longest-running in the West End), a famed 1989 TV...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 22, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Zoe Cormier (Profile Books) 2014, 331pp, RRP $29.99 Cormier, a member of Guerilla Science, a group that has successfully aimed to make science more accessible and fun (!), here discusses at length three of the major pleasures enjoyed by homo sapiens, why we love them,...
