The Hockey Stick Illusion is the definitive exposé of the distorted science behind the iconic global warming graph centrally responsible for the global panic about climate change.

From Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts to reproduce Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of his work and the launch of a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is a remarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateur sleuthing.

The book also covers the recent leak of the email archives of the Climatic Research Unit which has led to the resignation of its Director, Professor Phil Jones.

The renowned Science writer Matt Ridley, writing in The Spectator, said of the book -

"a rattling good detective story and a detailed and brilliant piece of science writing"

The Last Banana by Shelby Tucker began when the author visited his friend, whose family farmed in Chaggaland, Tanzania. Anticipating nationalization, the friend invited Tucker to visit again to help him spend ‘the last banana’ of his ‘unremittable fortune’, and Tucker returned in 1972. There were 180 Greeks in Chaggaland, but Nyerere’s policy of ‘returning’ land to the watu (people) destroyed this community.

In this absorbing book, Tucker recalls conditions in equatorial Africa before European colonisation. He reminds us of Livingstone’s vision of ending slavery by bringing ‘the 3 Cs’ (Commerce, Christianity and Civilization) to the interior of Africa and suggests that Greek settlement in Africa was an important part of fulfilling this vision. Tucker contrasts the moral force and fruits of the pioneer missionaries and explorers who brought Christianity to Africa with the triviality of modern travel and the surrealism of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ expounded in Africa today.