25 OCTOBER 1975, page 17

Doom Merchants

John Maddox How to Avoid the Future Gordon Rattray Taylor (Seeker and Warburg £4.90) Gordon Rattray Taylor is one of the originators of the recent doomsday literature, and......

Great Scot

Donald MacRae Cockburn's Millennium Karl Miller (Duckworth £14.00). lo a way the modern world began in the University of Glasgow in the eighteenth century. By the "modern world......