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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=My Age of AnxietyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Scott StosselBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Scott Stossel 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 anxious. There are no two ways about it. He has been anxious for as long as he can rememberGoing to Hurt}}, with dark recollections a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of his turbulent childhoodthe NHS, much of which seems humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to have been spent nervously gazing out of the window wondering whether his parents were coming home or if they had died in a terrible accidentbe Mad... Then of course, there was '' promised the sister who was very possibly an 'adult midget who had been trained same elements but moved from physical problems to play mental illness and the part work of a five-year-old girl' helping her colleagues (his parents) perform experiments on him before abandoning himpsychiatrist. Clearly Stossel’s anxiety has been fuelled by I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather active imagination over the yearsthan a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019143</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=KnowingCharles, Doing, and BeingThe Alternative Prince: New Foundations for Consciousness StudiesAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Chris ClarkeEdzard Ernst|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Man suffers from a regrettable lack For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of a ’hotline to reality’alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, or to The Alternative Prince''noumenoncritically assesses the Prince''. In order to give a relatively faithful rendition of realitys opinions, however, people use two aspects beliefs and aims against the background of consciousness. By researchers, they've been termed the relational and the propositionalscientific evidence. A number There are few instances of thinkers from a number his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of fields propose that treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the structure reputation of consciousness may be unveiled using the tool a man who is proud of quantum physicshis refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845404556</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Empire AntarcticaVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Ice, Silence and Emperor PenguinsThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Gavin FrancisIsabel Thomas

|genre=TravelChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I know two books don't Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a genrevery promising new series, but twice in recent years I OUP and Isabel Thomas have read autobiographical travelogues provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of men who felt too much was going on in their lives germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and their surroundings, 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 took themselves off to remoteyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, isolatedfungi, extremely cold protists and inhospitable placesviruses – and how we should protect ourselves. One went }}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the shores of Lake Baikalauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, 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 inform and shared his days huntingprovoke thought, fishingparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, drinking although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and reading with only Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=Emotionally, I am a few very distant neighboursvegan. Gavin Francis took himself southMentally, to the edge of the Antarctic ice, to spend I am a year as a scientific doctorvegan. He wasn't able I read [[How to be completely as alone as some have been Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the past – even if he hid himself away way in which we treat animals in isolation before the week-long annual changeover of staff was throughour search for (preferably cheap) food. Francis ends up with Practically, I am not a baker's dozen of companions, in vegan. It worked for a place where – while apart from the ice, sealing things up – only two lockable doors exist. You might think this was a large group of people for someone wanting odd blip with regard to be alone, cheese but the very tenuous and isolated feel then a perfect storm of the place those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the huge emptiness of taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the landscape is animal kingdom - it was the main point ease of this book – that, and communing with emperor penguins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What If Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions About PhysicsDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|authortitle=Brian CleggA Tattoo on my Brain

|summary=''What if Einstein Was Wrong?'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' is a beautifully presented book written by a team of scientific experts attempting to answer some of the most intriguing ''What If?'' questions about physics, cosmology, technology and relativityclaims Oxford University researcher. The result is an accessible storehouse of information, written in user-friendly format, which can be dipped into from time to time whether it be to impress friends at dinner parties, or simply to find out the answers to long-burning questions like: ''What if You Could Journey Into the Past?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400451</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Inside The CentreUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The Life statement has lost a little of J Robert Oppenheimer|author=Ray Monk|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Thinking back its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the early 1960s, Bertrand Russell, the subject nature of another prize winning biography by Ray Monk, was frequently seen on black and white television declaring his concerns over Nuclear Weaponspsychopathy. He stated, It'Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or s too easy to think sanely under associate psychopathy with the influence of a great fear.' For nearly seventy yearsYorkshire Ripper, mankind has wondered in the words of StingJeffrey Dahmer, 'How can I save my boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?' As concerns about nuclear proliferation in relation to IraqSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, Pakistan and North Korea escalate it is salutary to return to a thorough biography of the manreal-life Hannibal Lecter, known as but the father of the bomb, truth is that felt having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a deep and urgent need to be at the centre and to belong, J Robert Oppenheimergood thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099433532</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious DiseaseCount on Me|author=John RhodesMiguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In ''The End title and format of Plaguesthis book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it', the remarkably clear voice of immunologist John Rhodes takes one through significant moments in man’s battle against infectious diseases. The artillery on which Rhodes focuses is that of the vaccine, which has taken us further away from the extreme grip infections once had on the course of history. The s a basic 1-2-3 book starts with the example of smallpox, for which Edward Jenner first made a vaccine, having been in a world where variolation was those just starting out on the risenumbers journey. Between Jenner’s first serum transfer – from an immune milkmaid It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to a servant’s son – maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and the present day, several vaccines have been developed against ailments such as measles, various influenzas, and poliohow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278528</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=What a Wonderful WorldFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Chown|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=We all wonder about the Big Stuff at one time or another. How does the brain work? How does electricity actually get into our homes and power stuff? Who thought it was sensible to have a soft cheese, a Ferengi and an elementary particle all share the same name? Because that’s not at all confusing. Rather than just think about these things, Marcus Chown has decided to examine and explore them, and share his research. Or, as the subtitle puts it, this is 'One man’s attempt to explain the big stuff'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571278396</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB08B39QNRH|title=The Machines Curious History of Sex ResearchWriter's Cramp: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945Solving an age-1985old problem|author=Donna J DruckerMichael Pritchard

|summary=I'll start bluntly – this 'Society is a very academic, specialised tome, and is not really for the curious reader to flick through. Given that, you probably can work out exactly what this book is like, and therefore move based on from this review, speech but should you stay with me youcivilisation requires the written word'll find that if you didn't know much about sex research equipment then the subject might actually manage to fire a curious synapse and leave you with some interest. It is, after all, not a topic to be ignored easily – as I read and write about this book in September 2013 I'm weeks away from Channel 4 making one of the featured scientists a historical figure in a drama, which is only part of a season that controversially includes something like the science of fifty years ago – namely filming copulating couples. Conversely, if you did know something on the topic, this book will be on your shelves quite imminently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9400770634</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History|summary=Imagine of Writer's Cramp'' by a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milanrather strange route. Next I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from as 'interesting': I prefer the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply word 'painful' but I have an interest in the ribs, belches and even breaks windway that hands work. His conversation contains nuggets An exploration of information but in the flow history of his discourse there is a fondness problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for iteration some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches so it proved, with the cheese course - definitely too book being as much information on about the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things doctors treating the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again sufferers and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing changing medical attitudes as the Enemy''problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=David QuammenAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the ubiquity basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and abundance of our human bodies.'I was told that it wouldn' This is a salient fact taken away from David Quamment be discussed any further as it 's 'wasn'Spillovert something which nice people talked about''. The entire book is a most trenchant eye-opener to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are I ''zoonosesknew''more, but was little 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War AmericaDanny Dorling|authortitle=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J DoberSlowdown|rating=54

|summary=If I told you that doctors had been using human beings We are living in the most horrible a time of medical experimentsrapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that they had done things like tie toddlers the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to beds worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to insert live pathogens into their eyesbe worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, injected children with radiationif you can follow the arguments, sterilised those thought to it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be subhuman and even castrated a child just to as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. get a Mostly. supply of tissue for a lab experimentBecause mostly, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germanythings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. I am not 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>0230341713</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=God Versus Particle Physics: A No-Score DrawEmily's Numbers|author=John DaviesJoss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Emily found words ''God Versus Particle Physics: A No Score Drawuseful'' is a bold, witty but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and undoubtedly controversial book that questions our blind faith in science. Daviesthere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a psychologist, analyses the subject step further and began counting in detail, creating some interesting twos. She knew all about odd and convincing arguments concluding that some of the latest theories even numbers. Then she began counting in the realm threes: half of physics seem to border on the metaphysicallist were even numbers, lacking any kind but the other half was odd and it was this list of demonstrable proofodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. He reasons that many (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the arguments used by prominent atheists, demanding evidence that God exists, can also odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be applied to ideas such as a subset of the Big Bang, parallel universeseven numbers, dark matter and the Higgs Boson, ironically known as the ''God particle''but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405587</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapApollo|author=Joseph NiggMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=A confession. When reading hardbacks I take This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the paper cover, if there is one, subject drips offevery Apollo by Matt Fitch, to keep it pristineChris Baker and Mike Collins. Sometimes there's This is a second benefit, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example story we know well and because of having an embossed illustration underneaththis, or suchlikethe authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. But with this book I won't be alone, for These shortcuts are the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copiesdownside to the book. ItIf you's ve ever read a coloured replica comic book adaptation of a large map of film you will be familiar with the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is in a category of graphic novel that could easily have been three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes fromtimes as long and still felt too short. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, in such a lovely fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans1999308719|title=The Book of FungiLive Forever Manual: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Fungi are the fifth order of the natural kingdom and it’s estimated that there are approximately one and a half million species, found throughout the world. ‘’The Book of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred of the known fungi ethics and each is pictured at its actual size in full colour and there’s a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, form, spore colour and edibility. The tone of the book is academic but don’t let this put you off - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted to knowing that it was better to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached to companies behind the structure inside new anti- and I found it interesting, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) and accessible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Paralysed with Fearaging treatments|author=Gareth WilliamsAdrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Gareth Williams, author of For many years now I''Angel of Death'', turns his focus from the history of the plague ve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that of polio in ''Paralysed with Fear''. From the first report of a case in 1700-Strasbourgso far, right through to polio in the present day, he traces polio’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries and geographical bordersit was working out OK. Almost more intriguing, Time has passed though, is the insight we receive to the cut-throat competition between scientists who sought to use polio as a means for making history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137299754</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John D Barrow|title=Mathletics|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, although I was thrilled to get the chance to read 'm a book which claims to give us 'surprising great deal fitter and enlightening insights into the world healthier than most people of sports'. This is rather my age there were a frustrating read because it seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters few nagging health problems which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points were tipping my life out that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animalbalance. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting It was time to look for a page on, it’s new approach and as so obvious. Then there are other chaptersoften happens, like the interesting one detailing reviewing gods brought me the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more spacebook I needed. The decathlon one is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections ''Live Forever Manual: Science, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections ethics and doubling companies behind the other half in length might have been new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the way answer to go heremy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr David Lewis1847941834|title=Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do ItAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=How many times have we asked ourselves the question: ''Why did I do that?'' Most of the time, the question is a response to a sudden inexplicable impulse or urge on our part. That extra helping of chocolate cake, ve said this before but there are some books that flirtation with the guy in the officeyou seek out, or that must-have item in the supermarket trolley may all be causes for regret once our rational brain kicks in. But why is it some books that we humans are often slaves to our base instinct?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946852</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm. He's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, a touch over thirteen stone stumble across and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat of a bar of milk chocolate. Oh, and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other - can take it or leave it. In ''The Norm Chronicles'' we hear the story of his some books that drop into your life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells because you what you need to know) and Kelvinreally MUST read them, who's a dare-devillike, hard-living kind of guy. It's the story of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect of their lives. right now! And along with these stories are the ''realAtomic Habits'' facts about the reality of the risks they take.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristine Barnett|title=The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius |rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=The tutor stands at the front of the university class, frantically scribbling equations on the large whiteboard in front of him. He is well respected by his students; an expert in several fields, including general relativity, string theory, quantum field theory and biophysics. In fact, he recently unveiled a brand new theory that may put him in line for a Nobel Prize. Oh, and did I forget to mention that he is just 14 years old?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145627</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=The Great Mathematical Problems|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I joked with a friend when I first got the book that ''The Great Problems'' may be a step too far for me, and perhaps I should wait for Stewart to release a book called ''The Fairly Good Mathematical Problems'' as it would be closer to my levellast category. While I originally said it in jest, by chapter four or so I was starting to think I'd been closer to the truth than I'd realised - Stewart seems, somewhat surprisingly given his past success with books like the brilliant [[Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart|Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures]], to have pitched this book about the 'really big questions in mathematics' at an extremely high level. With just a degree in mathematics and nearly ten years worth of experience teaching the subject, I found it something of a slog to get through, with many concepts being difficult to grasp, in particular the Mordell conjecture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681995</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven StrogatzHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Joy of XBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Steven StrogatzYou may well remember when the sticking of a number '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. That has hardly been proven correct, awardbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -winning professor, takes us on you barely got a tour TV series worthy of mathematicsa numbered sequel, and how it relates to our everyday life, never in this fascinating bookthe world of non-fiction. Split into six sectionsIf someone has made a nature series about, 'Numbers'say, Alaska (and boy aren'Relationships't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, 'Shapes'why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, 'Change', 'Data' the energy and 'Frontiers'the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, itthe BBC's an engaging and well-presented read, with short chapters which make it easy to dip intoBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Restak and Scott Kim1783099593|title=How Puzzles Improve Your Brain: The Surprising Science of the Playful BrainSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Many people in the first flush of youth will read this book to find ways 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of increasing their brain powergender. Others - like me - It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the other end workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the age continuum will read because they're looking for ways mid-twentieth century to restrict or even reverse what they see as deterioration. Both groups might initially be disappointed as the title suggests that the book is about puzzles, but don't give up as the reality is far more usefulpresent day. This is a book about how our brains ''work''Reading it, how we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the different parts interact or come into play in certain circumstances - and then there are some puzzles directed at improving performance in those areasKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641751</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas WrightCampbell_Astra|title=CirculationAd Astra: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaAn illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell

|genre=BiographyPopular Science|summary=So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'Circulation' by Thomas Wright is a biography of English physician William Harvey’s life, and d better study the story of the 'birth whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a theory'. It takes the reader through time before, during and after the creation and completion of ''De Motu Cordis'', in which Harvey famously outlines the most comprehensive antecedent of the mechanism of blood circulation as we know handy guide that could condense it todayall down for you. The combination of the writer's aptitude for storytelling and the intriguing life of the individual about whom he writes makes for a fascinating read, allowing one to course through chronologically arranged chapters on Harvey’s life and works, mixed Enter Dallas Campbell with briefer essays on subject matters ranging from the history of vivisection this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the philosophical underpinnings of Harvey’s workplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard MabeyAdrian_Sock|title=Turned Out Nice Again: On Living With the WeatherSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=After many years The subject of discussion of climate change it's easy to assume that this is a book about has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner''climate'' but s daughter has been employed for several years designing it's not - , or only indirectlythem. It's something I use for about how we live with ''weather'' 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and our reactions other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to it and climate comes well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the discussion only as an examination amount of our reaction them we create every year could stack to the changesfreaking moon and more. You might have heard the essays Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which were broadcast in a five part BBC Radio 3 series ''Changing Climates'is plain stupid. I' which ran in February 2013m talking, but as always with Richard Mabeyyou can tell, his words warrant thought and examination which can't be accommodated by of the spoken wordhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250529</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean M Twenge and W Keith CampbellGermano_Eye|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of EntitlementEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=It's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay to mean the plural receipt of sheepcertain little numerical results, in particular with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my older sister’s youthful fascination vision to make me see with it allthe intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I'One sheepve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, two sheep. No two sheeps. That sillyand I've come away with glasses I don' etc etc. So when this book arrived I thought it perfectly plausible that t need to wear all the author had written an extended investigation into house/housestime, but certainly benefit from on holiday, mouse/miceor when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. (No two mouses? That silly.) What And above and beyond that I discovered on making my way through 've stared at – and got wrong – the pagessimple, howeverseemingly ageless test, is of various letters in various configurations that there is a lot more diminish in size, to prove to this book the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that irregular plurals of led to it, the changes other people made to it, and the 3cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-year-old-befuddling kindopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettBall_Wonders|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Wonders Beyond)Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came 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 Like many people got together and between them they built of 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 'certain age,'could'' be there I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and we wanted to see if what we (loosely) science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site failed and I had no problems in mastering the technicalitiesactually making these subjects ''fun. I'd built the site under instruction ' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and I knew it inside outenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel LevyYong_Contain|title=Why?I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|summary=The annual New Scientist book world you know is becoming a bit of a ritual for me, and I hope it is for you toolie. Each year, they collate the best questions and answers from their Last Word column, and each year I heartily recommend that you pick it up, or give it to someone as a Christmas present. This year There is no exception, such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we find out whether thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and things we'll ever speak dolphin, all think would kill us may save us. Welcome to the ins and outs modern study of James Bond's vodka martini, and - most importantly - detailed information from a dishwasher expert about how to deal with tinned spinachmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125026X</amazonuk>

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