Profile Books

Book Reviews

• Babel (Gaston Dorren)
  Around the World in Twenty Languages
• Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell)
  A New English Version
• In Search of Kazakhstan (Christopher Robbins)
  The Land that Disappeared
• Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
  Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
• Lingo (Gaston Dorren)
  A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
• Lying For Money (Dan Davies)
  How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
• *Rhythms of Life (Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman)
  The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
• Spell It Out (David Crystal)
  The Singular Story of English Spelling
• *The Vital Question (Nick Lane)
  Why is life the way it is?