A new edition of Chronicle of the 20th Century has arrived from Dorling Kindersley (£39.95, ISBN 0 7513 3006). An armbreaking load of a book, it’s definitely time to convert to CD-ROM and abandon print. And the measure of science in this century? Well, it gets fewer entries in the index than the British Royal Family … but the contemporary accounts scattered throughout are fascinating.
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