The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Recommended highly, both for those who want to understand the essential significance of modern physics and for those who are concerned with its implications for the possible transformation of the human consciousness

[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. *****

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’

At once funny, prosaic, sinister and wise, Blum's tale is a beautifully written account of the true human cost of all our remote connectivity

With infectious wonder, Andrew Blum introduces us to the Internet's geeky wizards and takes us on an amiably guided tour of the world they've created ... the Internet that Blum's beautifully lucid prose makes real turns out to be if anything a more marvelous place than the cloudy dreamland we'd imagined

An illuminating journey of discovery

Total immersive reading

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