Powerful and important, The Geek Manifesto eloquently lays out a programme to make the UK a more rational and therefore prosperous and successful country. And it's not that hard to do! Base policy decisions on evidence, invest in our knowledge-based economy by supporting education and research, and above all promote reason above opinion. Everyone interested in importing the scientific method into public life should read this book, and then lobby their MP!

The Geek Manifesto is the most compelling, engaging and entertaining account I’ve read of the relationship between science and politics .,, Geek or non-geek, this is a manifesto we should all feel able to endorse.

[Mark Henderson's] writing is urgent and for today ...I would, if I could, force every politician in the land to read this book and act .

A rallying cry... it is impossible not to admire Henderson’s focused anger at the lack of science in policy making and his passion to change things.

The Geek Manifesto should be required reading for all those who question the value and importance of science.

With over a decade of experience as the science correspondent for the Times, Henderson has seen it all. Today science is enjoying unprecedented coverage in the media and recognition in popular culture. Here is the account of how and why this has happened, how science works and how it is perceived, warts and all.. Fascinating stuff.

In this timely and important book, Mark Henderson explains why Geeks are on the march - and why the world will become a better place as a result.

Long overdue ... If you care about science or politics you'd be a food not to read this. Five Stars.

Mark Henderson's new book shows that CP Snow's 'Two Cultures' are still all too apparent in today's society, and also charts the frustrating tussle for power between forces of irrationality and the rational over recent years. Henderson advances a compelling argument that we shouldn't be ashamed of rational thinking, but instead, we need to recognise and embrace the importance of science in our politics, education, economy and culture.

Should be required reading for those with an interest in science. But more importantly it should be read by those for whom science is a closed book or a source of suspicion.

The revenge of the geeks begins here. Mark's trenchant defence of facts and evidence should be read by every seeker after truth in the country.

an entertaining call to arms for scientists, engineers, skeptics, rationalists and fans of the scientific method

superb... Required reading for those who love science and recognise the need to ‘geek the vote’

A powerfully argued case for scientific understanding and methods to play a central role in the national conversation

A passionate rallying cry for more scientific, evidence-based judgment in public life

Engrossing

An idea that is so lateral and clever, so powerfully evocative and masterfully executed that the only appropriate response is fervent envy

A wonderful idea ... a hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking book

Fascinating, absorbing

A quick, absorbing read - a summer beach book with brains

If you can stomach only one end-of-the world-as-we-know it story this summer, none is more audacious or interesting than Alan Weisman's The World Without Us

His is an extraordinary story laced with tragedy

[Root's] life story, vividly related here, is crammed with incident and adventure. Curious, creative and fearless, he has diced with death on numerous occasions and been mauled several times in his efforts to capture the daily lives of everything from silver-back gorillas to leopards in the wild on film. A gripping account of a life well lived