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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Honeyborne -->{{Frontpage[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|leftisbn=1788360702|linktitle=httpsCharles, The Alternative Prince://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849909679?ieAn Unauthorised Biography|author=UTF8&tagEdzard Ernst|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1849909679]]4 ===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]==|genre=Biography [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and Wildlife|Animals complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and Wildlife]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] You may well remember when aims against the background of the sticking scientific evidence. There are few instances of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to treatments which have something more. That no scientific support has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined done considerable damage to cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world reputation of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot man who is proud of those these days) and wants his refusal to make another, why she just makes another apply evidence- nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestigebased, the energy and the heft logical reasoning to demand follow ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helpinghis ambitions. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dallas Campbell0192779230|title= Ad AstraVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= So… you want 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to leave cover anything unpleasant which has the planet? Before potential to make you do you'd better study ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the whole history world of human space flight to germs. We get up to speedan informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. That could take The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a while… if only there was regular box headed 'speak like a handy guide that could condense it all down for scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you. Enter Dallas Campbell 'll soon be familiar with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetbacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164055</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Adriangareth_steel|title=Sock (Object Lessons)Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=3.54|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet I don't often begin my partnerreviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals''s daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or themseems to be appropriate. ItStories of a vet's something I use 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 about 200 days of every year, at . As a guess (wellTV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and as do other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the opposite end of the scale to wellbook is not suitable for younger readers and -known massafter reading -murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single dayI agree with him. On which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack He says that he's written it to the freaking moon inform and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a yearprovoke thought, apparently, which is plain stupidparticularly amongst aspiring vets. IIt deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn'm talkingt lack sensitivity, as although there are occasions when you can tell, of the humble sockwould be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501315064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Germano0241480442|title=Eye Chart (Object Lessons)Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=It's happened to meEmotionally, and like as not it has or will happen to you, tooI am a vegan. Mentally, I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with am a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normalityvegan. I've had that gizmo that photos read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the back of my eye to check way in which we treat animals in our search for diabetes and other problems(preferably cheap) food. Practically, I've had different tests to check am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away odd blip with glasses I regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't need occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre productionanimal-based protein. And above and beyond that IIt wasn've stared at – and got wrong – t the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations taste - I know that diminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things I can get blurry for me. Of course it's not ageless, but plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the scientific progress that led to animal kingdom - it, was the changes other people made ease of being able to it, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pagesget sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501312340</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johnny BallDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things MathematicalTattoo on my Brain|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=Like many people Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of a ''certain ageself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease,'' I as have fond many. Your memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the virtues of maths elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and actually making these subjects has documented his journey in ''fun.A Tattoo on my Brain'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ed Yong0099551063|title= I Contain MultitudesThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: the microbes within us Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and a grander view of lifeSerial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating= 54

|summary= The world you know is a lie'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are '' Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all far more complex than we thoughtalong. Things designed The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save usunderstand more about the nature of psychopathy. Welcome It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the modern study of Microbestruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet1849767343|title= Stupendous ScienceCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. ThatThe title and format of 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 secret behind the experiments in numbers journey. It isn't: it'Stupendous Sciences a hymn of praise to maths. It'' They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' s about why maths is so wonderful and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available how you meet it in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through playeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo WaeberB08B39QNRH|title= Optical IllusionsThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard|rating= 54|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I used came to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of my fellow librarians crowded around Writer's Cramp'' by a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddlystrange route. The book was called I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Magic Eye: I prefer the word 'painful' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at but I have an interest in the psychadelic pictures in a certain waythat hands work. For An exploration of the history of a brief period in problem which has defeated some of the early 90sbest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusionschanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow1776572858|title=Blue Planet IIHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Animals Home and WildlifeFamily|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number It'2s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she' after d get me a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good book about it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy A couple of days later I was handed a numbered sequelpamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, and in clinical language which had never been used in the world of non-fiction. our house before) If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy arenI was told that it wouldn't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeralbe discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. But some nature programmes do have the prestigeI ''knew'' more, the energy and the heft to demand follow ups. And after five years in the making, the BBCbut was little 's 'wiser'Blue Planet'' series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909679</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caroline AllistonDanny Dorling|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersSlowdown|rating= 4|genre= Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=We are living in a time of rapid change, and we''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for Budding Engineersus. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we'' takes a strictly handsre doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-on approach to science to show how some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific ideas can detail why either we shouldn't be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travelworried as we are, programmable machinesor in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, lightthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist rate of change in mind, so there many things is a focus on slowing down and the fun aspect, with many direction of the projects involving toyschange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marty JopsonLangford_Emily|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cookEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=CookeryChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=IEmily found words 've always believed that if you understood 'useful'why', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there' something worked 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 a particular way threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was very easy to remember this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''howthreeven'' it worked and what you needed to do. The food we eat is no exception to (Actually, this rule and confused me a little bit at first as they''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in re a subset of the kitchen - and he covers everything from the type of knives we use through odd numbers but sound as though they ought to the food be a subset of the future. Best of even numbers, but it all, he does worked out well when I really thought about it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurence Browne1910593508|title= The Many Faces of CoincidenceApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceHistory|summary= Browne does not mislead with This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this choice , the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that 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 title; he does without a doubt explore film you will be familiar with the many faces of coincidenceslight 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>1845409159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Luke Dittrich1999308719|title= Patient H.M.Live Forever Manual: A Story of MemoryScience, Madness ethics and Family Secretscompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= Luke Dittrich seeks For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to shed light on look for a new approach and as so often happens, the man behind reviewing gods brought me the initialsbook I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and in doing companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so, uncovered quite a bit much more than he expectedjust 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571862</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Wolfe1847941834|title= The Kingdom of SpeechAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating= 24.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= I''If ve said this before but there are some books that you are not having a fight with somebodyseek out, then some books that you are not sure whether stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you are alive when you wake up in the morning.really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements as this even up to is in the near present (The Guardian in 2004), you can be sure that Wolfe, nearing 87, has lost none of his familiar argumentative style; or that his journalistic days are nearing a close, with his love of melodramalast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney ShawHoneyborne BlueII|title= The Smell of Fresh RainBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= The Smell You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of Fresh Rain attempts prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to open our minds have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the power cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and potential of our sense never in the world of smellnon-fiction. Barney ShawIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a man armed with only a powerful curiosity lot of those these days) and boundless enthusiasm sets out wants to understand this ever elusive sense make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to explore ways to interpret smells demand follow-ups. And after five years in an accessible and simple way. His journey takes him from boatyards to markets via Harrods and his childhood home to uncover the meaning behind everyday scents and to distil making, the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfyingBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Newman1783099593|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In Neuropolis, the book and the Radio 4 series, Newman targets 'Speaking Up' has a subfascinating subject matter -species how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of pop-neuroscience that he dubs bro-science – a pessimisticlanguage in media, education, religion, denigrating take on the brain that is based more on macho posing than workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of researchfrom the mid-twentieth century to the present day. He sets out to destroy Reading it using proper science, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonCampbell_Astra|title=Cool PhysicsAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating=45

|summary=If So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you aren't entirely sure about d better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'', don't worry – it while… if only there was only in 1678 a handy guide that could condense it happened, so all down for you're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motion, and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, and all of these three things are on the introductory timeline in Enter Dallas Campbell with this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in : An illustrated guide to leaving the world of physics is very much neededplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonAdrian_Sock|title=Something or Nothing: A Search for My Personal Theory of EverythingSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory The subject of the meaning of the universethis book has been around for several millennia,and of why they - we - exist within yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a natural extension guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to wonder whether life was createdthink about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, orTed Bundy, if not created, how who was life formed? In ''Something or Nothing'' Anthony Marson develops into stealing credit cards to fund his own theoriesdesire of having a fresh pair every single day. The journey began when the author was on a touring holiday in TasmaniaOn which subject, gazed up at a clear night sky and asked himself how and why all the stars came amount of them we create every year could stack to existthe freaking moon and more. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientistsSome idiots buy more than six pairs a year, theologians and philosophersapparently, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him and he begins his search by quite openly admitting that he has only a limited scientific educationis plain stupid. It was good to know - for once - that I was on the same footing 'm talking, as you can tell, of the author and we could explore togetherhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry MarshGermano_Eye|title=Admissions: A Life in Brain SurgeryEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary=It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Lifehappened to me, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of Lifecertain little numerical results, Death and Brain Surgery]] but with a positive or negative before them to prove the memories have stayed correction needed to my vision to make me see with methe intended clarity and normality. I 've had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I was taking 've had different tests to check the pressure inside my pleasures too sadlyeye, but the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about ''Admissions've come away with glasses I don' I decided t need to treat myself to an audio downloadwear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, particularly as Henry Marsh was narratingor when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I knew 've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that my expectations were unreasonably highdiminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but how did the book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603866</amazonuk>scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyBall_Wonders|title=First Science EncyclopediaWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=I wasnLike many people of a ''t introduced to certain age,'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone have fond memories of tuning in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and animals, atoms science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageactually making these subjects ''fun. What's needed is a good' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, basic reference his latest book which will introduce all the subjects proves that he has lost none of his passion and give a good groundingenthusiasm for his subject. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anders Ericsson and Robert PoolYong_Contain|title= PeakI Contain Multitudes: How all of the microbes within us can achieve extraordinary things|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= Most of us have had the experience of watching a game at Wimbledon, or hearing a concert pianist, or reading about a new world record for the youngest chess Grandmaster, and daydreamed about ourselves in that position. Except, we invariably tell ourselves, that isn't possible because we were always beaten in school tennis matches, we didn't start piano lessons until we were twelve, and we were never pushed by our parents to play chess. Peak is a supremely optimistic – which is not to say unscientific – ode to practise, and the idea that with the right amount and right sort grander view of practise, almost anyone can achieve almost anything. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598477</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewlife|author= David Crystal|title= The Story of BeEd Yong|rating= 45|genre= Popular Science|summary= David Crystal The world you know is something of a torchbearer when it comes to popularizing linguistics in the UKlie. He churns out material about language for a general audience at steady pace: he has covered everything from the history of English to how Shakespearean drama was actually pronounced to how language is used in an internet context. Given his previous grand themes, it There is perhaps surprising that Crystal has now picked something rather more inconspicuous to present: the verb ''be''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0198791097</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marcus Chown|title= The Ascent of Gravity|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary=Evidence for gravitational waves was picked up by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) in 2015, a hundred years after Einstein predicted their existence. As the book says 'a no such thing as good case can be made that the discovery of gravitational waves is the most important development in astronomy since the invention of the telescope in 1608'or bad microbes. Why? And why does it matter for the understanding of physics Sickness and the universe? Well, Marcus Chown's new book will lead you gently through the background to this discovery and with a small amount of effort on your part you should grasp its relevancehealth are all far more complex than we thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474601863</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cordelia Fine|title= Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= I really want Things designed to believe that starting ''Testosterone Rex'' with an anecdote involving a key-ring made of canine testicles was less of a puerile opening gambit save us may kill us and more of a consciously chosen attempt to make me believe that Cordelia Fine's new book is going to deliver the goodsthings we think would kill us may save us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781618</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity Book|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the ''Botanicum Activity Book''. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: there's plenty in here for anyone who is still capable modern study of holding a pen or pencilmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

Most people will have heard, or participated in, this type of childhood argument. It doesn't really make much sense, as we know that infinity goes Move on forever, and therefore ''two times infinity'' and ''infinity squared'' cannot be any bigger than infinity itself. But what exactly ''is'' infinity? This term has puzzled and intrigued people for generations, and ''Beyond Infinity'' sees mathematician Eugenia Cheng take on the challenge of defining infinity and helping us unlock its secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252858</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Reference Reviews]]