Books

Books : reviews

Sian Griffiths, ed.
Predictions: 30 great minds on the future.
OUP. 1999

Contents

• Jonathan Weiner. Introduction to Predictions. 1999
• Chinua Achebe. The Colour Line. 1999
• French Anderson. Gene Therapies. 1999
• Noam Chomsky. Language Design. 1999
• Arthur C. Clarke. 2099 . . . The Beginning of History. 1999
• Paul C. W. Davies. Three 'Origin' Mysteries. 1999
• Richard Dawkins. A Riddle I Long to Answer . . .. 1999
• Daniel C. Dennett. Protecting Public Health. 1999
• Carl Djerassi. The Century of A. R. T.. 1999
• Andrea Dworkin. A New Jerusalem for Women. 1999
• Umberto Eco. Never Fall in Love with Your Own Airship. 1999
• Francis Fukuyama. The Politics of Women. 1999
• J. K. Galbraith. Penalise the Bankers, Not the Workers. 1999
• Daniel Goleman. Winning the Battle for the Human Heart. 1999
• Stephen Jay Gould. Unpredictable Patterns. 1999
• Susan Greenfield. George Orwell's 1984 . . . in 2084. 1999
• Lynn Margulis. Proof Positive for Wet Mergers in the Eternal Takeover. 1999
• Donald A. Norman. Cognitive Prostheses. 1999
• Paul Nurse. Complex Cancers, Simple Cells. 1999
• Steven Pinker. Increasing Consilience. 1999
• Sherwood Rowland. Sequestration. 1999
• Amartya Sen. Things to Come. 1999
• Elaine Showalter. Optimism v. Pessimism. 1999
• Peter Singer. A New Ethics. 1999
• Dale Spender. A Basic Human Right. 1999
• Chris Stringer. Fossils for the Future. 1999
• Sherry Turkle. Toys to Change Our Minds. 1999
• Kevin Warwick. Mind Machines. 1999
• James D. Watson. Re-Directing the Course of Human Evolution. 1999
• Steven Weinberg. A Theory of Everything. 1999
• Slavoj Zizek. Closing the Gap. 1999