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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ben MillerBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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 NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Aliens are ComingAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and citiesFor over forty years, wait until it gets dark Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and then look into the night skycomplementary therapies. If you are lucky enough for it not to be raining''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, you will likely see hundreds beliefs and aims against the background of stars in the skyscientific evidence. Each one There are few instances of these could be a Sun just like our own his beliefs being vindicated and each his relentless promotion of these Suns could treatments which have planets orbiting it. Now times this number a million fold and you can start no scientific support has done considerable damage to fathom the number reputation of stars and planets out there – surely the human race a man who is not a complete fluke and there are aliens out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder0192779230|title=AlphaVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: DirectionsThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Graphic NovelsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn 'Germs' seems to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited have become a catch-all word to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and cover anything unpleasant which has the semi-literate. If potential to make you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workill. I know In the first book isn't designed in what looks to be a message very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people in the debate originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the literary worth of graphic novels, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argumentthinking has developed over time. What it is designed to The vocabulary can be is confusing but Thomas gives a complete history regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of everything else – the trickiest concepts and in covering every prehistoric momentyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, it does just thatfungi, protists and viruses – and absolutely brilliantlyhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clancy Martingareth_steel|title= Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the OtherNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating= 3.54|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Lying 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 wrong and definitely not the last people companion volume you would lie to willingly are 've been looking for. As a TV show the ones you love the most – or so you author would like to think. In argue that ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the OtherAll Creatures''lacked realism, Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, selfas do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading -confessed expert liar, I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and serial groomprovoke thought, sets out on a mission to disprove the central beliefs we hold particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with respect tosome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, no more although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and no less than, our own moralityeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Wulf0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Invention of NatureCookbook: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
|rating=4.5
|genre=BiographyCookery|summary=Alexander von Humboldt Emotionally, 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 born appalled by the way in Berlin which we treat animals in 1769our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister odd blip with regard to cheese but who is perhaps better remembered as then a philosopher and linguistperfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. The family was wellIt wasn't the taste -toI know that I can get plant-do and both brothers benefitted based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionallythe animal kingdom -distant widowed mother, but it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a legacy from her which would fund Alexanderfew spare moments.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's first explorationsis a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced I have been directly affected by people such this cruel disease, as Joseph Banks, President of have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the Royal Society, elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who had travelled was diagnosed with Thomas Cook. But it was Alzheimers and has documented his travels journey in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work'A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey0099551063|title=The HuntWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.
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{{newreview
|author= Kima Cargill
|title= The Psychology of Overeating
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Popular Science
|summary= As a nation, we are not the same as we used to be. We eat more, both as in more often and as in more of a serving size. And we eat worse. Processed foods. Sugary drinks. It’s not really news. As a result, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure is higher, and our sugar levels are whoooosh. But it’s not just about the food. This book takes an in depth and incredibly interesting look at our lives as a whole, to show how the modern culture of consumerism shows up in every part of our day to day living and explains, to quite a significant degree, why many of us are overeating and why it is so hard to stop.
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{{newreview
|author= Marianne Taylor
|title= I Used To Know That: General Science
|rating= 4
|genre= Popular Science
|summary= This book got off to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one of 'my' sciences without a nod to any of the other '-ologies' (or ''pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at school). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that has already spawned [[I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]], [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] and [[I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among others.
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{{newreview
|author=Joel Levy
|title=Why We Do the Things We Do: Psychology in a Nutshell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Chalk and cheese; your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from '' Until the other, whether through colour and crumbliness, or physical form, or from being studies events of the mind. The only thing is6 January 2021 that might have surprised, one pair is alone. Your two hands formed at the same time, whereas chalk is the older, and philosophy predates psychologyeven shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The two were the same thing until recently, and we can perhaps point at statement has lost a William James as little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the father nature of the splitpsychopathy. I make this point because when I reviewed this volumeIt's [[Why We Think too easy to associate psychopathy with the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or history evident. Here, howeverRobert Maudsley, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas of idiocy-cumreal-possession in our early historylife Hannibal Lecter, through phrenology and mesmerism to but the birth of psychology. The fact truth is that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms as the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remainhaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Stephen1849767343|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a NutshellCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Way back when, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's hard to believe sometimes, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going to do a philosophy Abasic 1-level. No, I said – there was no point in studying something nobody can agree about. The introduction to this 2-3 book raises much for those just starting out on the same point – the solution to philosophical questions and study is only ever going to be more questionsnumbers journey. It says that Kant thought the study of thought, isn't: it'or, more precisely, how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed studys a hymn of praise to maths. Still, study it many people do do – It's about why maths is so wonderful and probably a far greater number would wish to read around it and find out what it might be like to sound as if how you have studied meet it – hence books like thisin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will CohuB08B39QNRH|title=Out The Curious History of the WoodsWriter's Cramp: the armchair guide to treesSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Most people probably accept trees as, well, ''treesSociety is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. They I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp're there and they're greenby a rather strange route. Some are lighter, some darker. Some are taller and other go for width, but I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. 'interesting': I knew that prefer the big tree at the bottom of next doorword 'painful's garden is a sycamore, but only because I heard someone say 'have an interest in the way that sycamore is going to cause problems with hands work. An exploration of the drains history of a problem which has defeated some of the flats at the back'. I was OK on white horse chestnuts toobest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, but only when with the kids were collecting conkers, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's book landed on my desk being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and I opened it expecting to find lots of pictures with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberchanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia Cheng1776572858|title=Cakes, Custard How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsDon Bartlett (translator)
|rating=5
|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary= Eugenia Cheng is a professor of maths It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a lover of cakebook about it. If you’re wondering how those two things could ever intersect, it’s quite easy. And the result, the middle A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Venn diagrambasics, if you will, is this book in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which makes maths funnice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, meaningful and relatively easy to digestbut was little ''wiser''. Much like her recipes Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsDanny Dorling|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsSlowdown|rating=54|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Oceans We are living in 30 Seconds a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy Pressnormal, which aims natural and probably good for us. We are designed to give an informative worry and entertaining overview with the current state of a given subject what we're doing in bitethe world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twohundred-and-page spreadsome pages, with a concise description on if you can follow the leftarguments, covering all of the main pointsit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, and a colourful illustration on or in some cases that we're worrying about the right hand pagewrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, complete with extra snippets of informationthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up In fact, which further condenses the main idea rate of change in many things is slowing down and the chapter direction of change will in some cases go into a single sentencereverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartLangford_Emily|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enoughEmily found words ''useful'', with a really interesting look at numbers as seen by the earliest peoplebut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, before moving on you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a brief explanation step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of natural the list were even numbers, rational numbers, negative numbers but the other half was odd and complex and prime it was this list of odd numberswhich occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as Pythagoras’s theorem, they're a subset of the Fibonacci cube, negative odd numbers, pi and quadratic equations, and other lesser known concepts such but sound as kissing though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, imaginary numbers and the winsomely-named Sausage Conjecturebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>)
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin1910593508|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins
|rating=5
|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as This incredible graphic novel is a psychologist love letter to the Moon landings and therapist her husband died suddenlythe passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must ''not'' doChris Baker and Mike Collins. She knew that she must not develop This is a sense story we know well and because of entitlementthis, feel resentment or succumb to self-pitythe authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using These shortcuts are the principles which she applied only downside to herself. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies to combat themthe book. But the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if If you've suffered ever read a comic book adaptation of a bereavement, film you need to grieve - it's about having will be familiar with the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengesslight 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 still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1999308719|title=Wheat BellyLive Forever Manual: The effortless health Science, ethics and weightcompanies behind the new anti-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it For many years now I've (half) joked that people who are leading an active life I intended to live forever and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? that so far, it was working out OK. He Time has passed though and although I'm a simple great deal fitter and worrying answer: wheat, healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugarwere tipping my life out of balance. The problem isn't restricted It was time to weight gainlook for a new approach and as so often happens, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism toothe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. In fact - the more that you read''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the more younew anti-ageing treatments'll wonder if there's an organ in seemed like the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheatanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Dartnell1847941834|title=The KnowledgeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth I've said this before but there are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthysome books that you seek out, The ''MaddAdam'' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled to hear her some books that you stumble across and some books described as 'Science Fiction')that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! and the recent ''Station ElevenAtomic Habits'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just a small drop is in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic bookslast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edzard ErnstHoneyborne BlueII|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Finding TroubleMark Brownlow
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after You may well remember when the end sticking of World War II and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he a number '2' after a film title was born as well as an insatiable curiosity suggesting something of prestige - with that the two not being entirely entirely unconnectedfirst film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to his stepthe cinema -father about the death you barely got a TV series worthy of six million Jews a numbered sequel, and never in the course world of the war provednon-fiction. In his teens he wasnIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't determined to become there are a doctor - he had a hankering lot of those these days) and wants to be a musician make another, why she just makes another - despite nothing would justify the fact that it was numeral. But some nature programmes do have the family businessprestige, so to speak, but came round to the idea energy and practiced the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the universitymaking, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=New Scientist1783099593|title=Question Everything: 132 science questions - and their unexpected answersSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=For years now the 'Speaking Up'New Scientist'' magazine has had a column whereby people submit questions they want the answer to, fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and it's up to correspondents from all walks shapes our notions of life to submit the answer and explain the solutiongender. It's nothing new – the Guardian had it for yearslooks at our use of language in media, then the Daily Mail probably had Britain's most popular varianteducation, what with it being dailyreligion, but none were purely science-based such as that under perusal. It's a simple format for a book – not only does it create a fun kick-back at the close of an at-times hard-going science read, it generates a book full of fun workplace and intriguing Q&As almost every yearpersonal relationships. Chances are that, by relying Author Allyson Jule calls on the interests an encyclopedic body of their audience, research from the editors have allowed themselves mid-twentieth century to publish books the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that will appeal to many people who have never looked at their weekly edition – certainly they have has ever been incredibly popular, said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and massively boosted the magazine's public recognition. And this volume will not be any differentKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251649</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfDallas Campbell|rating=45
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=WeSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think d better study the whole history of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people human space flight to back that reason get up with scientific datato speed. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that That could provoke take a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere while… if only there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets was a handy guide that could turn our world upside condense it all down at the blink of an eyefor you. Perhaps then you better read Enter Dallas Campbell with this book first – for it may well turn out : An illustrated guide to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>leaving the planet.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical MysteriesSock (Object Lessons)|author=Ian StewartKim Adrian
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=AhThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, those pesky number thingsor them. Not just [[RogersonIt's Book something I use for about 200 days of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the Seven Wonders opposite end of the World by Barnaby Rogerson|Rogerson's Book scale to well-known mass-murderer of Numbers: The culture women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of numbers from 1001 Nights to having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the Seven Wonders amount of the World]] and how them we have related create every year could stack to certain ones, but how they all relate to each other, the freaking moon and have provided mathematical scientists with thousands upon thousands of hours of thinking timemore. Just one problem in these pages has ended with not so much Some idiots buy more than six pairs a checkable proofyear, but a third more data again than the entire Wikipedia projectapparently, which is plain stupid. Within this book are numbers far too big I'm talking, as you would not even manage to write them out given the entire lifespan can tell, of the universe (and ones bigger than that) and problems wherein one must define as many integers as possible using merely 1s and mathematical symbolshumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Germano_Eye|title=The Edge of the SkyEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Roberto TrottaWilliam Germano|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''. Apparently thatIt's advice happened to budding journalists me, and writerslike as not it has or will happen to you, and too. I do try to follow mean the English translation receipt of itcertain little numerical results, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing make me see with the dictum is Roberto Trottaintended clarity and normality. This book is his survey I've had that gizmo that photos the back of current astrophysics my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and cosmological scienceI've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but one certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that has diminish in size, to convey everything it intends prove to by using only the most common thousand words of relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the English language. So there is no Big Bang as suchscientific progress that led to it, planets have the changes other people made to be called Crazy Stars – it, and the cultural impact it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand eitherhad are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithJohnny Ball
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute Like many people of a ''certain age,'' I have found fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the answer to one virtues of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace it. I was delighted then, when maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''Inventions in 30 Secondsfun.'' arrived for me to reviewAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, as I saw it as a dose his latest book proves that he has lost none of much-needed respite from my endless researchhis passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Anna ClaybourneEd Yong
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Our body The world you know is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneouslylie. Even when we are sleeping, our body There is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and filtering wastehealth are all far more complex than we thought. When Things designed to save us may kill us and things we are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damagethink would kill us may save us. When we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works Welcome to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body worksmodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gary Smith
|title=Standard Deviations
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Over the years I've regularly been infuriated by the way that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately to deceive us. Politicians, journalists, academics all seem to fall into the trap with alarming regularity and I was tempted into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) that 'If you torture data long enough, it will confess'. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale for seven years and is now a professor at Pomona College in California. His book is aimed at the layman rather than the academic - does it hit the mark?
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{{newreview
|title=Mind Change
|author=Susan Greenfield
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=The year is 2014. The digital age is upon us and Greenfield seeks to explore what the impact of its technologies might be.
Heralding from the discipline of neuroscience, Greenfield’s case, in short, is that the brain may be changing Move on to meet the demands of the digital twenty-first century. Online mass-player games, digitally equipped classrooms, electronic readers and search-engines each challenge how the mind has traditionally socialised and learned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery|author=George Johnson|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=George Johnson, a popular science writer more comfortable in the fields of physics and cosmology, started his journey into cancer when his wife, Nancy, was diagnosed with a rare uterine variety. He took it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?), but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it has been with us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence|author=Ben Ambridge|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Psy-Q'' is a fun and interactive slice of 'Pop-Science' which delves into various psychology topics, with the aim of entertaining and enlightening the reader and debunking a few myths along the way. Most of the chapters are only a couple of pages long and include quizzes, personality profiles, experiments, optical illusions and the odd cheesy joke thrown in for good measure. The result is a readable, accessible and un-putdownable book that I managed to devour in an entire afternoon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise|author=Michael Brooks|rating=5|genre=Popular Science |summary=Eleven Discoveries are introduced and explored in Michael Brooks’ At the Edge of Uncertainty, spanning all from the expansion of epigenetics, the possibility of creating a hypercomputer, and the unveiling of the true nature of the universe. Some of the hypotheses currently being investigated by our contemporary scientific community are baffling enough in themselves: Is our universe a hologram of an extra-dimensional universe? Are the mechanisms governing photosynthesis and human olfaction in fact one and the same? Just how well-established are animal personalities and cultures, if such exist? Is a human ‘will to live’ something which can be attributed to discernible biological responses and systems? Is time an illusion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251274</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]

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