Book of the Month: Priceless

Krenentsov N. Stalinist Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997

Union of Concerned Scientists. Scientific Integrity in Policy Making: an Investigation into the Bush Administration's Abuse of Science. Cambridge, MA: UCS, 2004

United States House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform—Minority Staff Special Investigations Division. Politics and Science in the Bush Administration. Report prepared for Rep Henry A. Waxman, August 2003

Ackerman F. , Heinzerling L. Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing. New York: New Press, 2004 [277 pp; £17.95; ISBN 1-56584-850-0 (h/b)]

Esler G. The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998

Carroll L. Through the Looking Glass. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994

Wheen F. How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World. London: Fourth Estate, 2004

McKee M. , Coker R. The dangerous rise of American exceptionalism. Lancet 2003; 361: 1579–80