An exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and the nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on many controversial topics, it cuts through the ambiguity surrounding science to look at how science is conducted, how it is disseminated, how it is interpreted, and what it means to our society.

Jonathan Balcombe's follow-up to his successful first book, Pleasurable Kingdom, is an eloquent and scientifically informed account, which shatters the myth that animals eat and reproduce mindlessly and shows how we humans have to learn to treat them as sentient beings capable of feelings and pain and emotions.

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations?

A guide to science proposal writing. Suitable for scientists embarking on a thesis or grant application, it explains steps of the proposal process in detail. It includes chapters on private foundation funding and interdisciplinary research.