Rembrandt (The Mystery of the Revealed Form) - Michael Bockemuhl

Advantages: It's a Michael Crichton so somewhat educational
Disadvantages: It is very confusing

...in their ability to survive the cancer with which Frank was afflicted. As I mentioned earlier, in order to keep hold of these cells, firstly BioGen (via UCLA) fight a Court case to show that they own the cells, which they win. Alex of course lodges an appeal. Meanwhile Brad Gordon is framed for having sex with an under age girl and someone, supposedly on his side, persuades him to re-enter BioGen (from where he has been suspended) and contaminate a cell line (the Burnet line of course) and then got out of the way by being sent on a trip to do all things dangerous which is supposedly to prove his innocence because he has a “novelty gene”. Watson is supposedly helping his nephew get out of trouble and also assisting Rick Diehl with his financial and security problems – but all is not exactly as it seems – though it would spoil the ending if I revealed... Read review

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Advantages: Scientific evidence has alot to say
Disadvantages: We need to consider these thing for ourselves - NOW

...(variation within a type of organism) caused by natural selection. They do, however, disagree with evolutionists over the existence of macroevolution (an organism turning into another organism). Even non-creation scientists, such as Michael Behe, have acknowledged this is impossible giving scientific facts to show why this is so.(1) Creationists tend to believe that the universe is young – under 10,000 years old. Charles Darwin popularised the theory of evolution in his book ‘The Origin of Species’ (pub.1859) based on his studies in the Galapagos islands. The book challenged the argument for special design through revolutionising thinking of how the universe, and all its features and inhabitants, came into existence. Darwin argued that the universe, and all its life, has evolved by naturalistic, mechanistic processes from... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing mysteries
Disadvantages: None, really

...Most Amazing Mysteries! Mysteries of the world investigated is by Michael Johnstone. It covers everything from the pyramids of ancient Egypt right through to the mystery of the Marlborough. The book is set out in two column newspaper style so this does tend to give one the impression of reading a newspaper. A tabloid newspaper? Perhaps so, but the research that Johnstone puts into his book is impressive. There are the old standards of mysteries explained books. The pyramids, Atlantis (he seems to favour the theory that it was the island of Thira, destroyed by a huge volcanic explosion in 1500BC) the Loch Ness Monster, The Princes in the Tower (they were probably murdered by Henry Tudor, rather than Richard) The missing settlers of Roanoke, North Carolina (where they really absorbed into the nearby friendly Croatoan tribe... Read review

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