Here is the fifth section of The Economist’s best of 2008.
Science and technology
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. By Rose George. Metropolitan Books; 304 pages; $26. Portobello Books; ₤12.99.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader. Princeton University Press; 1,008 pages; $99 and ₤60.
Bad Science. By Ben Goldacre. Fourth Estate; 352 pages; ₤12.
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Duelling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Matthew Goodman. Basic Books; 384 pages; $26 and ₤15.99.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. Yale University Press; 304 pages; $26 and ₤18.
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. By Matthew Connelly. Harvard University Press/Belknap; 544 pages; $35 and ₤22.95.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. By Sudhir Venkatesh. Penguin Press; 320 pages; $25.95. Allen Lane; ₤18.99.
Glenn A Knight
In my study
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