Art as Extraordinary Science: A Paradigm for the 21st Century

Why have we failed so badly to address the crisis of hunger in the 21st century?

This is a fascinating and highly readable biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords.

A uniquely accessible way of looking at recent major advances in the science of embryonic development