Catch up on your reading with Penguin’s paperbacks of Terence Deacon’s The
Symbolic Species and Steven Rose’s Lifelines. Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works
is also due out in a couple of weeks. And for a new look at sociology by an old
authority add W. G. Runciman’s The Social Animal from Fontana to your list.
Prices from around £8 to just under £10. See Planet Science for
reviews.
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