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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Damian O'Brien|title=If Houses Why Not Mouses?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay to the plural of sheep, in particular my older sister’s youthful fascination with it all. ''One sheep, two sheep. No two sheeps. That silly'' etc etc. So when this book arrived I thought it perfectly plausible that the author had written an extended investigation into house/houses, mouse/mice. (No two mouses? That silly.) What I discovered on making my way through the pages, however, is that there is a lot more to this book that irregular plurals of the 3 <!--yearRemove -old-befuddling kind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395595</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J Barrett1787333175|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=I donYou Don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came Have to read a particular book, but on this occasion it will help you to judge whether or not this book is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming from. Back in 2006 three people got together and between them they built a site - let's call it [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everest. We did it because it ''could'' be there and we wanted Mad to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site and I had no problems in mastering the technicalities. I'd built the site under instruction and I knew it inside out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWork Here|author=Joel Levy|title=Why?Benji Waterhouse
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|summary=The annual New Scientist 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 becoming Going to Hurt}}, a bit glorious mixture of insight into the workings of a ritual for methe NHS, humour and I hope it is for you tooautobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad... Each year, they collate '' promised the best questions and answers same elements but moved from their Last Word column, physical problems to mental illness and each year the work of a psychiatrist. I heartily recommend that you pick it up, or give did wonder whether it was acceptable to someone as be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a Christmas present. This year situation rather than a person and it is no exception, as we find out whether we'll ever speak dolphin, all the ins and outs of James Bond's vodka martini, always delivered with empathy and - most importantly - detailed information from a dishwasher expert about how to deal with tinned spinachunderstanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125026X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Waring1788360702|title=From 0 to Infinity in 26 CenturiesCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=I quite like Maths For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and Icomplementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'm not bad at it at a basic level' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, which is useful as I have a financial based jobbeliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. But I recall the point at There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which Maths went from being easy have no scientific support has done considerable damage to incomprehensible for me; sometime over the Summer that feel between GSCE and Areputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-Level standard. Thenbased, as now, I never really wondered where Maths had come from; I just worried why I suddenly couldn't understand it any morelogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kaiser0192779230|title=How the Hippies Saved PhysicsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways in which the west coast hippies have benefited the development of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on to a crucial theorem of Bell, about what Einstein termed ''spooky'' interactions between particles at a distance. This might otherwise have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the 'no-cloning theorem'. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History The Invisible World of Science and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkley.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=David Crystal|title=Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English SpellingIsabel Thomas
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Are 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you a speller? I must confess I'm not much of one myself, so ill. In the main thing I was after from this first book was an insight into the peculiarities of English spellingin what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and some hints Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and tips for remembering accessible introduction to the rulesworld of germs. Oh, We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and a fun, entertaining read at how the same thinking has developed over time (this is Crystal, after all). I was not disappointed. (Even if I The vocabulary can still only spell disappointed 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 the help of my spellchecker)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685672</amazonuk>bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Holtgareth_steel|title=Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective StoryNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'Never Work With Animals'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life, the universe have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is, rendering definitely not the answer meaninglesscompanion volume you've been looking for. In As a TV show the author would argue that ''Why Does the World Exist?All Creatures''lacked realism, Jim Holt explores potential answers as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to what could be considered the ultimate question of lifeinform and provoke thought, the universe particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and everything – why is distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-twoare occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Fernyhough0241480442|title=Pieces of LightHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: the New Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science of Memory|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
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|summary=''Everyone'' knows that when you chop onionsEmotionally, you cryI am a vegan. Mentally, but have you ever wondered ''exactly'' why this happens? More to the point have you ever considered what you might be able to do so that you don't need to look like I am a snivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? vegan. Life is littered with such conundrums (along with the old-wives'-tale solutions) but there seem I read [[How to be more of them Love Animals in the kitchen than elsewhere. Robert L Wolke has a column in Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the ''Washington'' ''Post'' way in which he debunks misconceptions and answers questions with logicwe treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, science and I am not a healthy dose of common sensevegan. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393341658</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siri Hustvedt|title=Living, Thinking, Looking|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary='Living, Thinking, Looking' is It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a collection perfect storm of essays by Siri Hustvedt those events which, she claims, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to be humananimal-based protein. In these essays she examines who we are and how we got It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alasdair Wickham|title=The Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of tastes just as good as anything plundered from the Unexplained|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=A collection of 'Modern Myths' from around animal kingdom - it was the world, Wickham's Black Book covers a wide range ease of phenomenon, from ghosts to liminal creatures, poltergeists to demons. As an aficionado of all things paranormal, this should have been right up my street. However, I found myself struggling being able to get into it, and putting it down for something else on more than one occasionsufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533626</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain Badiou Daniel Gibbs with Nicholas TruongTeresa H Barker|title=In Praise of LoveA Tattoo on my Brain
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|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=Alzheimer'Love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that s is simply an encounter, a trifle, you learn disease that you can experience the world on the basis of difference slowly wears away your identity and not only in terms sense of identityself.' In other wordsI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, when eyes look as have many. Your memories and worlds collide, personality worn away like a statue over time affected the process of alteration that follows, is loveelements. 'It is absolutely true seems as if nature wants that love can bend our bodies final victory over you and prompt the sharpest tormentyour dignity. Love, as we can observe day in and day out, This is not a long, quiet riverwhat makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable.' But it is not designed to be that way - just as a record Daniel Gibbs is a lump of plastic before music neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has been carved documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on it, love is just a transaction if all the chance has been ironed out of it - as perhaps by an Internet match site questionnairemy Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687799</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil deGrasse Tyson0099551063|title=Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=A year or so ago there was a big hoopla about being able to see the International Space Station pass overhead where I live, so I dutifully clambered on to the roof. And indeed it was actually very warming to know I was seeing something manmade, from 250 miles away. As for the chance to see it, its speed of 17,000mph means it orbits the planet every 92 and a half minutes. It gets about. But some of the warmth of seeing it, as well as the achievements that led up to it, and the politics of NASA's five decades - and some of the Newtonian physics involved in it - are all in this volume. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393082105</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Everett|title=Language: The Cultural Tool|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as a missionary in far flung corners Wisdom of the world– a fact that isn’t surprising given the number of references to faith that crop up over the pages. This new book, however, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjectsPsychopaths: language and travel. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer with an interest Lessons in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest in travel. It’s not quite the ‘read it by a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between a formalised every day read and a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred in. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffrey Masson|title=Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. 'Dogs Never Lie About Love' is a statement of the obvious to me. I've lived with and around dogs for most of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretence. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Antonio Damasio|title=Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=What makes us, us? How is awareness of one's own being created in the human mind? What makes ''me'' who got up this morning ''me'' that went to bed last nightfrom Saints, Spies and the same ''me'' that got up on most mornings in the preceding forty-odd years? How is it that we see, remember and understand things, other humans and the world in general? And who is doing the understanding? How is it that we are conscious of our own experiences, and how is it that we are conscious of ourselves being conscious?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099498022</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSerial Killers|author=John D Barrow|title=The Book Of UniversesDr Kevin Dutton
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|summary=The idea of a 'multiverse' - multiple universes existing alongside each other - is something science fiction and fantasy fans are fairly au fait with'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. Parallel realities in which you made a different decision at a pivotal moment and, as a consequence, have evolved in entirely different ways, have been fodder for authors, scriptwriters and 'what if' musings for some time, but recently, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart1849767343|title=17 Equations That Changed The World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=''17 Equations That Changed the World'' takes us through the history of mathematics, from Pythagoras through Einstein's theory of relativy and chaos theory. It highlights the most influently equations, clearly explains them, and establishes the full ranges of breakthroughs they led to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)|title=Queen of the SunMiguel Tanco
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years The title and read many books about the subject, all format of the 'how this book might lead you to..think that it' s either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the science of… varietynumbers journey. But this book is a revelation as it genuinely tries to celebrate bees, capturing the real It isn'feelt: it' s a hymn of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much soonerpraise to maths. For Siegel and Betz have collected a series of short articles, poems and essays not It's about the technique why maths is so wonderful and science of the craft, but about the purpose and 'soul' behind how you meet itin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith SkeneB08B39QNRH|title=Escape from Bubbleworld|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the thought of another book assaulting population growth, western greed and reckless exploitation of the environment, take time to read the first chapter The Curious History of Keith SkeneWriter's 'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this is as entertaining and amusing book as you are likely to read on the subject, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science and fascinating exploration of what turns out to be less certain certainties. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the nonCramp: Solving an age-scientific reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewold problem|author=David Malouf|title=The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern WorldMichael Pritchard
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|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which Society is subtitled based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Forsyth1776572858|title=The EtymologiconHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=TriviaHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I like wordsasked how babies were made. Words are awesome My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. End A couple of. But days later I also like trivia. was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I like knowing things was told that perhaps other it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people don’ttalked about''. I ''knew'' more, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to thembut was little ''wiser''. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win Thankfully, and this one is so good I think we’ll times have to call it a win-win-winchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon BarnesDanny Dorling|title=Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsongSlowdown
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=One of my best-ever auditory memories is waking up We are living in a tent to a dawn chorustime of rapid change, sung in the middle of Ireland in springand we're worried about it. It was a high-decibel effort Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and seemed to involve hundreds of birdsprobably good for us. I'm ashamed We are designed to say that I couldnworry and with the current state of what we't begin to identify re doing in the multitude of species I heard that morning. So I suppose I chose this book expecting it world we have much to be a field guide that could at long last help me get a handle on birdsongworried about. But However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it isnsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't yet another handbookbe as worried as we are, but a much more interesting book than or in some cases thatwe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, which I thought would make a great present for a new birdwatcherthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595473</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=PredatorsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|summary=Many readers would probably know that on Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can 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 list were even numbers, but the simple count other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of humans the odd numbers but sound as though they helped ought to dispatchbe a subset of the even numbers, mosquitoes may be but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the most deadly animals eversubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. But did you This is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that if we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you take into account will be familiar with the success rate of hunts, diversity slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>still felt too short.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Leith1999308719|title=You Talkin' To Me?Live Forever Manual: Rhetoric from Aristotle to ObamaScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Over the For many years now I've trained myself (fairly successfullyhalf) not joked that I intended to judge a book by its coverlive forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I've added 'not judging m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a book by its title' few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the training, but what do you do when your first impressions of a book - the title I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and'' companies behind the cover new anti- scream ageing treatments'trivia'? Well, I put this one to one side on seemed like the basis that it really wasn't likely answer to be a book which would interest me. Picking it up and looking at the contents was almost accidental my problems - and then I discovered that this book is a gold mineonly you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Grice1847941834|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrantI've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that the real animal knew it was second best to humansdrop into your life because you really MUST read them, having been saved in the Arklike, and respected our dominion over them. Even right now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. ! But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) Atomic Habits'' is just in the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans canlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Byrne and Tom CassidyHoneyborne BlueII|title=How to Save the World with Salad Dressing|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world is under threat from a manic Bond-type baddie. You, my friendly reader, are the only person with the smarts enough to save it. You'd better not be one of my less intelligent friends, because according to this book one needs a lot of physics-inclined lateral thinking to carry out the dangerous tasks ahead. You'll need to know about gravity and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and more to get through the puzzles here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlue Planet II|author=Gary Hayden|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives a brief explanation James Honeyborne and discussion of each idea, and shows how through the ages philosophers have argued pretty much everything you could think of, much of which seems bizarre to the modern thinker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen H Segal|title=Geek WisdomMark Brownlow
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, but on You may well remember when the Big Bang scale I'm probably more sticking of a Leonard than a Penny. I was weaned on ''Star Trek '', chose number '2'Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for after a Year 7 exam, and think film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it would be was fully justified to have something more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same timeThat has hardly been proven correct, there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have but it has until recently almost been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but I've never seen confined to the cinema - you barely got a ''Batman'' film, never read TV series worthy of a comic booknumbered sequel, and never quite understood what all in the ''Star Wars'' fuss was aboutworld of non-fiction. If Sci Fi is someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a religionlot of those these days) and wants to make another, then this is why she just makes another - nothing would justify the book that can fill me in one numeral. But some nature programmes do have the storiesprestige, the parablesenergy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the rules, as it were, of geekdom. I had to have itBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Hare1783099593|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?Speaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=3.54
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|summary=Another year 'Speaking Up' has passed, a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and once again we're treated to another offering from New Scientist's Last Word columnshapes our notions of gender. We've been here beforeIt looks at our use of language in media, with [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|Penguins]]education, [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]]religion, [[How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare|Elephants]] the workplace and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|Hamsters]]personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. Now Reading it's time for , we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the orangutan to find out why he's orangeKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CrystalCampbell_Astra|title=The Story Of English In 100 WordsAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell
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|summary=Crystal is a god when it comes So… you want to language. I’ve known that since I was quoting him during English A Level, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask 'Whyleave the planet?' and Before you do you need an answer other than 'Because'd better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. This is his new book, but you don’t need That could take a while… if only there was a degree in linguistics to find handy guide that could condense it fascinating, and in addition all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the intriguing revelations and chummy writing style, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas presentplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niall McCraeAdrian_Sock|title=The Moon and MadnessSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5
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|summary=A The subject of this book entitled has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It'The Moon 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 Madness'' has other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the potential scale to be a pile well-known mass-murderer of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokumwomen, Ted Bundy, and there is not who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a whiff of New Age hanging over itfresh pair every single day. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds On which subject, the amount of lunatics in them we create every year could stack to the asylum howling at the full freaking moonand more. Of courseSome idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, the very word which is plain stupid. I'lunatic' has its origins in m talking, as you can tell, of the moon. McCrae tries to separate myth and fact in this fascinating bookhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John L LockeGermano_Eye|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So DifferentlyEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5
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|summary=LockeIt's subtitle happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I'Why Men ve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and Women Talk So DifferentlyI've come away with glasses I don' might lead you t need to think wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that this is just another self-help I''Men are from Marsve stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, Women are from Venus'' tometo prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. ItOf course, it's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – ageless, but the scientific progress that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach led to verbal expression – it, the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out changes other people made to explain WHY that might beit, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven ConnorBall_Wonders|title=ParaphernaliaWonders Beyond Numbers: The Curious Lives A Brief History of Magical All ThingsMathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45
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|summary=...In which our author considers the smallerLike many people of a ''certain age, less noticeable items '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our lives. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs schoolteachers had failed and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things are things that we allow and expect to do things back to usactually making these subjects ''fun. Magical things all do more'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, and mean more than they might be supposed to." Principally these are the little flotsam his latest book proves that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our person, he has lost none of his passion and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think aboutenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BrooksYong_Contain|title=Free Radicals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding away, with small breakthrough after small breakthrough. When I Contain Multitudes: the big breakthroughs come, they downplay things, and insist upon logical and level-headed caution. It's all very mild-mannered microbes within us and polite. ...Or is it? The history a grander view 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>}} {{newreviewlife|author=Andrew Wheen|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComEd Yong|rating=45
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|summary=You The world you know exactly what you're getting when you read the summary of Andrew Wheen's ''Dot-Dash To Dotis a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes.Com''Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. ''How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph Things designed to the Internet'' sums it up perfectly. This is a history of technology save us may kill us and the people involved in creating that technologythings we think would kill us may save us. It serves as a primer for anyone with an interest or need Welcome to know about telecommunicationsthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441967591</amazonuk>
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