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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Connor1787333175|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical ThingsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45

|summary=...In which our author considers I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the smallerNHS, less noticeable items in our liveshumour and autobiography. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like ''You Don't Have to things, be Mad...'' promised the same elements but magical things are things that we allow moved from physical problems to mental illness and expect to do things back to usthe work of a psychiatrist. Magical things all do more, and mean more than they might I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be supposed to." Principally these are looking for humour in this setting but the little flotsam that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person, and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle it is always delivered with, but never think aboutempathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1788360702|title=Free Radicals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding awayCharles, with small breakthrough after small breakthrough. When the big breakthroughs come, they downplay things, and insist upon logical and level-headed caution. It's all very mild-mannered and polite. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals, who'll do anything for success. There are those who mercilessly put down their rivals, those who use drugs to stimulate their breakthroughs, those who put themselves in harm's way in the pursuit of truth, and those who just plain go about things their own way, regardless of what anyone else says.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Andrew Wheen|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComEdzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=You know exactly what you're getting when you read the summary For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Andrew Wheenalternative medicine and complementary therapies. 's 'Charles, The Alternative Prince'Dot-Dash To Dot.Com'critically assesses the Prince'. ''How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from s opinions, beliefs and aims against the Telegraph to background of the Internet'' sums it up perfectlyscientific evidence. This is a history There are few instances of technology his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the people involved in creating that technology. It serves as reputation of a primer for anyone with an interest or need man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to know about telecommunicationshis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441967591</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Pain0192779230|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachmanGerms's leg that becomes seems to have become a museum piece and gascatch-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the way potential to scientific discoverymake you ill. Part popular science In the first bookin what looks to be a very promising new series, part trivia, each article is OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a treat clear and accessible introduction to readthe world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, either as a fun-sized nuggetfungi, or when reading from cover to coverprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonah Lehrergareth_steel|title=Proust Was a NeuroscientistNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,I don'Time hath, t often begin my lord, reviews with a wallet at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivionwarning but with ''. This fully accords with the discoveries of modern brain science. Proust in his famous novel, Never Work With Animals'In Search of Lost Time' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientists, such as Rachel Hertz, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly it seems to the hippocampusbe appropriate. Thus the taste Stories of a petit madeleine evokes a rediscovery by Proust of Combray and a flow of associations - it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centred. Lehrer in vet's life have proved popular since ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves an intriguing argument about the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries All Creatures Great and the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], has a taste for philosophy; Lehrer intends to heal the rift between what C.P.Snow termed the Small'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect to the truths and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and painters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lister-Kaye|title=At the Waterbut 's Edge: A Walk in the Wild|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly about, and one with which I must confess to having a love/hate relationship! I loved the detailed observation, the sharing of knowledge that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study of the countryside. He delights in and pays as much attention to the structure of a spider's web as to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=Mathematics of Life|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Mathematics and biology donNever Work With Animals't traditionally mix. As science develops, the boundaries between maths and physics, physics and chemistry and chemistry and biology have become more and more blurred. As it is now, biology requires many mathematical techniques, and it's fair to assume that major biological breakthroughs over the next hundred years will also have a strong basis in maths too. Ian Stewart looks at the major steps forward in the history of biology, and the areas where maths is at definitely not the forefront of developmentcompanion volume you've been looking for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681987</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony James|title=The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Jacob Bronowski was As a scientific administrator, poet, philosopher, dramatist, radio and TV personality, best remembered for show the series author would argue that ''The Ascent of ManAll Creatures'. This short book, about 90 pages long, is partly biographical sketch, partly – in fact largely – an overview of his major published works, occupying about two-thirds of the book. In the author's wordslacked realism, it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopherdo other similar programmes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402200</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sean Carroll|title=From Eternity to Here: The Quest for Gareth Steel says that the Ultimate Theory of Time|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The Prologue sets out what this book is about. It's about ' ... the nature of time, the beginning of the universe, and the underlying structure of physical reality.' OK? Bring on those questions. Yes, it's a weighty tome in terms of size not suitable for younger readers and subject matter, but I would certainly describe the front cover as reader-friendly, so therefore should have broad appeal. I love the title of this book, lots of thought has been put into it and it certainly grabbed my attention after reading - and I'm no scientistagree with him. The classic movie from the classic book ... I also loved CarrollHe says that he's language - 'The Elegant Universe' and 'a preposterous universe' These are phrases written it to make you stop inform and thinkprovoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. And I certainly did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687955</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Rowland Smith|title=Driving It deals with Plato: The Meaning of Lifesome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn's Milestones|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Driving with Plato'' is a companion book to [[Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with Socrates]]t lack sensitivity, in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interesting. Here, in the company of a similarly eclectic range of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school and riding a bike, to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a mid-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and deatheating. Montaigne said that to philosophise was to learn how to die, and here Roland Smith ensures that we think about each stage leading up to that moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Stevenson0241480442|title=An Optimist's Tour of the FutureHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=In 1968Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future way in which we would soon be living treat animals inour search for (preferably cheap) food. In terms of technological advancement we're Practically, I am not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time vegan. It worked for a revised view while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of what is those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientistanimal-based protein. Itwasn's perhaps not t the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the most familiar of combinations, but take animal kingdom - it was the best bits ease of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuffbeing able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-CondeDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Sleights of MindA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=I have Alzheimer's is a passing interest in both magic disease that slowly wears away your identity and neurosciencesense of self. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladieshave been directly affected by this cruel disease, but I was also very keen to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''as have many. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik Your memories and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and as personality worn away like a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed statue over time affected the [http://illusioncontestelements.neuralcorrelateIt seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity.com/ Illusion of the Year contest]This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn Alzheimers and...) and Johnny Thompsonhas documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Kean0099551063|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon Wisdom of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowingPsychopaths: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World Lessons in life from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goesSaints, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery Spies and marvel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSerial Killers|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your BrainDr Kevin Dutton

|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Marcus Chown|title=We Need To Talk About Kelvin|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Sporting Until the best title for a popular science book this side events of [[6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers:Category:Alex Bellos|Alex Bellosnow they']] ''Here's Looking At Euclid'', Marcus Chown shows us what everyday things tell re probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the universenature of psychopathy. You It'll find out how your reflection in a window shows s too easy to associate psychopathy with the randomness of Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the universereal-life Hannibal Lecter, how but the abundance of iron shows truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a 4.5bn degree furnace exists in space, and how most of the world's astronomers are wrong about what the darkness of night shows usgood thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244033</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Hare1849767343|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Well? Why can't elephants jump? And while The title and format of this book might lead youto think that it're pondering that, think s either about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? Whatresponsibility - or it's the hole a basic 1-2-3 book for in a ballpoint pen? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questions, and so many more, then do yourself a favour and pick up those just starting out on the latest collection from the New Scientistnumbers journey. It isn's [httpt://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick Oit'Hare was also kind enough s a hymn of praise to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick Omaths. It'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]]s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry NichollsB08B39QNRH|title=The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of ChinaWriter's Political AnimalCramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=The book cover alone, with its panda hugging a tree, says 'buy me', 'read me.' A good start. The sections are divided into no-nonsense headings: Extraction, Abstraction and Protection. Maps and Prologue give a flavour of what's to come. The inside front cover states boldly that Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago.' I think it safe to say that many of us would probably say automatically, without thinking, that the panda has immense appeal. But is it only because of the beautifully marked eyes which give the animal a cuddly, teddy bear look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683688</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Cindy M Meston and David Buss|title=Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure I came to Revenge (and Everything in Between)|rating=4Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Many many years ago, a man who was far too young I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to be as 'interesting': I prefer the fusty, dusty RE teacher he was shaping to be, asked my best friend and word 'painful' but I why we were each having sex with our girlfriendshave an interest in the way that hands work. Even aged fifteen I thought something along An exploration of the lines history of 'well, if he doesn't know by now, he never will', and listed that it was great fun, a very enjoyable sensation, showed an appetite problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for the relationship, some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and that sex so it proved , with the ultimate in bonding - how book being as much closer, to be blunt, could you be to someone than actually inside them? I'll come clean now about the doctors treating the sufferers and admit said girlfriend was not real, but several have been since, and I have had heaps of fun finding out how - and perhaps why - women have sex. I was never to know, until now, there are 237 reasons for itthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546639</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Roach1776572858|title=Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in SpaceHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Space is big. Really big. And itIt's a long way away, too. more than sixty years since I mean, I'm having enough trouble deciding what to pack for a year in Africaasked how babies were made. I My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd be hopeless if I were off to Mars. But then, no-one's written get me a book on what to stick in your suitcase for Sierra Leoneabout it. And Mary Roach ''has'' written A couple of days later I was handed a book on what to take to the red planet... Except, this is so much pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than a shopping list. This is the definitive inside scoop for anyone who has ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes basics, in clinical language which had never been used in a world our house before) and I was told that is, well, out of this world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687807</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Conniff|title=Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=This isnit wouldn't quite the book be discussed any further as it seems. From the subtitle, I inferred a memoir or autobiography. Instead Richard Conniff has chosen twenty-three of his journal articles to reprint from a clutch of prestigious magazines, including ''National Geographicwasn't something which nice people talked about' and '. I 'Smithsonian'knew'. Taken together, they illustrate his wide range of interests in the animal world. While this glimpse of some of the most peculiar creatures on the planet makes for fascinating reading, it's definitely not a book to be galloped through in a single sitting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393304574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman|title=Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary="Seasons of Life" aims to present a rounded picture of the way seasonality affects human life as well as the rest of nature. Covering everything from Seasonal Affective Disorder to the potential for animals to adapt to climate changemore, this book would be an interesting read for anyone with an enquiring mind and an interest in the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186197969X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja|title=Selected: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=but was little ''Selectedwiser'' is based on the psychology of leadership. Some of us may ask the perfectly reasonable question 'Does it matter who leads and who follows?' WellThankfully, apparently it not only matters but it matters greatlytimes have changed. And the co-authors go to great lengths to tell us why. The useful prologue informs us that the whole area of leadership can be traced back in time, by no less than several million years. Vugt and Ahuja explain that the rather innocent (and even a bit airy-fairy to some) word 'leader' is evolved from various academic disciplines. Including the more obvious psychology, there is also biology and anthropology in the mix. Heady stuff. And yes, I did want to read on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam PhillipsDanny Dorling|title=On BalanceSlowdown

|summary=Essential for We are living in a tightrope walkertime of rapid change, prized as an intellectual objectiveand we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, balance is generally considered something natural and probably good for us. We are designed to which worry and with the current state of what we can aspire're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. We praise someone who makes a balanced decisionHowever, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we envy people who have a 'good work/life balanceshouldn' t be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we offer an opinion 'on balance' to demonstrate that re worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we have considered various arguments think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and optionsthe direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geoffrey MillerLangford_Emily|title=Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We BuyEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no one limit to how far you can tell go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the differencelist were even numbers, why shell out $30 000 for a real Rolex but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when a you counted in threes which she called ''threeven'mere' $1200 will get you . (Actually, this confused me a virtually identical replica? Why do luxury manufacturers such little bit at first as BMW spend money advertising in mass media whose typical readership most likely wonthey't ever re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be able to afford their products? And just why is a subset of the ''i'' in iPod so important?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437929</amazonuk>even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Bueno de Mesquita1910593508|title=Prediction: How to See Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Shape the Future with Game TheoryMike Collins|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=As This incredible graphic novel is a rather mediocre recreational poker player I've often been intrigued love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by game theoryMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. The academic discipline used by politicos during the chilliest days This is a story we know well and because of this, the Cold War has been utilised by authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the more mathematically minded players on blanks. These shortcuts are the professional circuit only downside to improve profitabilitythe book. Rather than poker, author If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and politics professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory models to forecast political, economic that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and international security scenarios and in Prediction he shares some of his secretsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531844</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Dee1999308719|title=The Running SkyLive Forever Manual: A BirdScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-Watching Lifeaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Tim Dee may already be known For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to you as a distinguished critic live forever and adjudicator of contemporary poetrythat so far, or for producing BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'. So it's hardly surprising that my first impression of his birdwatching memoir, ''The Running Sky'' is of poetic exactitude transferred to another genrewas working out OK. But Time has passed though and although I remain dazzled by the sustained quality 'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of his writing over 80,000 wordsbalance. Opened at any pageIt was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, paragraphs of graceful prose enclose figurative language capturing the very essence of flight (hence reviewing gods brought me the title, from a Philip Larkin poem)book I needed. To Dee''Live Forever Manual: Science, flight is ethics and companies behind the nub of a birdnew anti-ageing treatments''s independence. He describes and wonders poetically – be it seemed like the collective sweep of flock formations, the mysteries of migration, or individual observations of nightjars, carrion crows or peregrinesanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516497</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bloom1847941834|title=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We LikeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=How much would you pay for a jumper I've said this before but there are some books that used to belong to Brad Pitt? What about if I had it dry cleaned for you first? Chances areseek out, if some books that you were considering the first offer, stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you've just been put off somewhat. But why? The jumper hasn't changedreally MUST read them, after all. Do you honestly and rationallylike, believe that dry cleaning would destroy some of Bradright now! ''s Atomic Habits'essence', thus making is in the item less valuable?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847921434</amazonuk>last category.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FarndonHoneyborne BlueII|title=Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge QuestionsBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My history You may well remember when the sticking of interviews with Oxbridge colleges forms a very short dialoguenumber '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. MeThat has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to university admissions representative, ''You don’t actually do media studies per se, do the cinema - you?'' He, ''No – our graduates run the media.'' Had I barely got a lot furtherTV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and sat never in front the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a potential tutornature series about, I would have faced say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a question designed lot of those these days) and wants to bafflemake another, provokewhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, bewilder – or to inspire a flight of intuitive intelligence. Thus is the media-running wheat separated from energy and the mediaheft to demand follow-consuming chaffups. And thus is this book given its basis – sixty of after five years in the more remarkable questionsmaking, answered as our erudite author might have wished to answer themthe BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831132X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Sanders1783099593|title=Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Fans 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of ‘’House, Mgender.D.’’ may recognise the name of Lisa Sanders. She’s the technical advisor to the TV show as well as being the writer It looks at our use of the ‘’Diagnosis’’ column language in the New York Times. Many of the stories which appear in the column are recounted in this bookmedia, education, religion, which is a look at the way in which doctors reach a diagnosis workplace and how the method has changed (or not) over the yearspersonal relationships. I’m not a fan Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the hospital dramas which seem mid-twentieth century to be a major feature of the TV schedulespresent day. Reading it, but I was fascinated by what is, essentially, a series of medical detective storieswe feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan KleinCampbell_Astra|title=Leonardo's LegacyAd Astra: How Da Vinci Reinvented An illustrated guide to leaving the Worldplanet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary=Take fifty So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of science's most thought-provoking theories, and try human space flight to get up to explain each in thirty seconds or one pagespeed. It's That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all here, from Schrodinger's cat, down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to cosmic topology, via leaving the Gaia hypothesis and chaos theoryplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831129X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark GriffithsAdrian_Sock|title=The Lotus Quest|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. I know this because his brief biog in the front of The Lotus Quest tells me so; just as it tells me that he is the editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening 'the largest work on horticulture ever published'. His prior works list includes five other plant book credits, three of them for the RHS. I shall take all of this on trust, since attempts to find out more about the author and his background through the usual internet search mechanisms has failed miserably. He remains as elusive as the sacred flower that is the subject of this latest work: the lotus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595100X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and StuffKim Adrian|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this is the book for you3. If you're interested in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes and stuff], then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full of all the information you'd want to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Bellos|title=Alex's Adventures In Numberland|rating=5

|summary=Maths is a wonderful thing. ...WaitThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, donand yet my partner't run aways daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It really is. The way numbers interact with each 's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and otherpeople to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, the way counting systems developedTed Bundy, how mathematical breakthroughs are coming from the world who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of crochethaving a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, and how people can mentally calculate the 13th root amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a 200 digit number in almost less time than it takes to read it out loudyear, apparently, which is plain stupid. ThereI's all sorts m talking, as you can tell, of weird and wonderful stuff going on in Numberlandthe humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597162</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ForteyGermano_Eye|title=The Hidden LandscapeEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=The purpose It's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of this book is certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to explore prove the connection between correction needed to my vision to make me see with the landscape intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the geology underlying itback of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, which in one of his many vivid similes Fortey compares I've had different tests to check the surface personality pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the workings of the unconscious mind beneath. He starts by describing a journey he once made time, but certainly benefit from Paddington Station to Haverford Weston holiday, or when watching TV or a market town in Pembrokeshire cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and with it a passage back into got wrong – the plutonic depths simple, seemingly ageless test, of geological aeons, indicated by the large 60cm monster trilobites various letters in various configurations that have been found diminish in size, to prove to the Cambrian rocks near St Davidrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's. Fortey describes not ageless, but the magnificence of scientific progress that led to it, the Cathedral constructed from the local purple sandstone changes other people made to it, and mottled with moisture-loving lichens. He contrasts this with the anonymous character of a nearby brightlycultural impact it's had are all on these eye-coloured service station, anonymous and synthetic, an invader cheaply built and out of contextopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra HorowitzBall_Wonders|title=Inside Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and KnowAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|summary=How warm is Like many people of a warm day? Or rather, given the weather at the moment''certain age, how chilly is a chilly day? Is it better to know '' I want a small helping have fond memories of peas, or tuning in to know that I want 82 peas? There are times when vagueness is more useful than being specificwatch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun. Kees van Deemter makes this point'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, sharing many examples from a number his latest book proves that he has lost none of fields, including maths, philosophy, linguistics his passion and AIenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199545901</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Druin BurchYong_Contain|title=Taking I Contain Multitudes: the Medicinemicrobes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|summary=In 1898, Burch points out that The world you know is a new drug was developed and marketed for the treatment of tuberculosis by Bayer & Colie. TB There is no such an ancient enemy of man that there is apparently evidence of an earlier strain to be found in Egyptian mummiesthing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. The German firm had discovered a chemical that seemed Things designed to work well, save us may kill us and patients and indeed their own staff, who were tested seemed things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to respond well - it was named Heroin - and its addictive effects were at first missedthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951506</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Roger Scruton|title=I Drink Therefore I Am|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Roger Scruton is a conservative philosopher and composer, best known for his work Move on philosophy and music, but who shares Plato's belief that 'nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the gods to man' and in this book seeks to combine his two interests of philosophy and the fruits of the vine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Laidler|title=Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Animals'' is described as a visual guide to the animal kingdom, but please don't think of it as a picture book as it's far more than that. Don't think of it as a coffee table book either – despite the fact that its size – midway between A2 and A3 – might tempt you to think that way. It's a journey through the complex diversity of the animal kingdom based on sound scientific principles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916004X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Butterworth|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There aren't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all know, too, that the world's population growth is on a collision course with the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Wrangham |title=Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human |rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Humans are cooking apes. According to Richard Wrangham, mastery of fire and cooking of the food that resulted from it was at the root of human evolutionary development and ultimate success. Various factors have been proposed as the crucial stimulus which led to the appearance of the first recognisably human creatures: leaving aside divine intervention (be it from God, extra-terrestrials or future humans travelling in time), the candidates for what made our ancestral apes stand straighter and start growing brains range from socialised hunting to chattering about kinship to eating seafood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682851</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]