Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man

This book aims to make the wider issues and principal ideas of our age understandable to all. The book refers to all spheres - culture, philosophy and politics - and is split into five sections: facts, analysis, connections, perceptions and thesis, and begins with an analysis of the growth of science. Bryan Appleyard is the author of "The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts" and in 1986 he was General Feature Writer in the British Press Awards.