Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts – review

Phil Baker takes an eye-opening trip through Britain's relationship with acid

Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley – review

Stuart Jeffries on an author who finds magic in the everyday

David Smith is disappointed by the much-feted novelist Uzodinma Iweala's non-fiction account of Aids in Africa

David Wootton on a study of humans as electrical machines

Three books on modern cravings embrace drug memoir, neuroscience and society's moral slide, writes Nicholas Lezard

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips, Ancient Light by John Banville and How Much Is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky

The scandalous treatment of a medical pioneer is still shocks Peter Forbes

Oliver Burkeman renounces 'positive thinking' in his droll search for happiness, writes Alexander Larman

Julian Baggini finds that negative thinking is the way forward

Cognitive psychology has had little impact on our culture, but this intellectual manual makes a start, writes Alexander Linklater