Please Explain isn’t a biography of Pauline Hanson. It’s Dr Karl Kruszelnicki’s 26th popular science book.

When Roma Mitchell studied law at the University of Adelaide in the 1930s, she couldn’t join the Law Students’ Society. Why? Because of her sex.

In Seeing the Sunrise Justin Langer shares 30 lessons that he believes have helped him to achieve in sport and in life.

The book sees Dr Collins frankly trace his own personal search and journey from agnosticism and atheism to a belief in the God of the Bible and his overwhelming conviction of the compatibility of science and faith.

It is tempting to think that political activist Naomi Wolf is nothing more than a panic merchant, someone who has spent too long analysing the inherent dangers of living in America, and not enough time having fun.

On 11 July, 1963 South African police raided a farm near Johannesburg and arrested 10 men. After 90 days of seclusion from their families and from any legal advice they were charged with conspiracy to commit acts of sabotage and terrorism.

Those looking for a comprehensive and coherent analysis of the issues of human rights, law and justice will be disappointed by this book.

Here’s the short review: you should read this book. Now to the longer version. I’ll begin with why I could be wrong.

On July 16, 1962, a Frenchman Michael Siffre descended into a cave with a diary, but without a wristwatch. He wanted to find out what happened if he were deprived of a sense of time, for weeks on end.

This book’s blurb describes it as hilarious and funny. It isn’t. It is very serious and at times very sad.

Fl!p – yes, it does use an exclamation mark so I have to do so at least once – is billed as presenting the mindset of the business world’s vanguard: counter-intuitive thinking.

In Blowback, the Californian academic Chalmers Johnson predicted that US foreign policy might draw terrorism to its own soil. The attacks of September 11, 2001, vindicated this fear.

The 2007 Federal Election has come and gone and Nicholas Stuart's book, What goes up... behind the 2007 election, seeks to explore the reasons behind why the country changed government so emphatically.

The culture and society of one quarter of the world’s population is all too easily squeezed into uniform Western generalisations. But as Rob Gifford explains, China is so vast and diverse that it is better understood as a continent or even an empire.