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{{Frontpage|classisbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-"wikitable" cellpaddingbased, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=5|genre="15" <!Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs' seems to have become a catch- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREall word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you 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 world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{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 author 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 provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, 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 Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=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 appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the 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 was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|isbn=1108838936}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0099551063|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.''

<!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 along. The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy. It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-- Langford -->life Hannibal Lecter, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-align: top; text2-align3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: center;"it's a hymn of praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08B39QNRH[[image|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp:Langford_Emily.jpgSolving an age-old problem|leftauthor=Michael Pritchard|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999947509/ref4|genre=nosim?tagPopular Science|summary=thebookbag-21]]''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''.

 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[EmilyI came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Numbers Cramp'' by Joss Langford]]=== [[imagea rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting':4starI prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-Fiction|Children's Nonhundred-Fiction]]years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved bestwith the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself. Obviously you can count anything and there}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's no limit to more than sixty years since I asked how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twosbabies were made. She knew all about odd My mother was deeply embarrassed and even numberstold me that she'd get me a book about it. Then she began counting in threes: half A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the list were even numbersbasics, but the other half were odd and it was this list of odd numbers in clinical language which occured when you counted had never been used in threes which she called our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn'threevent something which nice people talked about''. (ActuallyI ''knew'' more, this confused me a but was little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be 'wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a subset time of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought rapid change, and we're worried about it.) of review [[Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford|Full Review]] <!-- Honeyborne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-align: top; textand-align: center;"|[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1849909679/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]=== [[image:4some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things.5star Mostly.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] You may well remember when the sticking rate of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something change in many things is slowing down and the direction of prestige - that the first film had been so good 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 of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of nonchange will in some cases go into reverse.|isbn=0300243405}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series aboutFiction|summary=Emily found words ''useful'', saybut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, Alaska (you can count anything and boy arenthere't there are s no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a lot of those these days) step further and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeralbegan counting in twos. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy She knew all about odd and the heft to demand follow upseven numbers. And after five years Then she began counting in threes: half of the makinglist were even numbers, but the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne other half was odd and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]] <!-- Campbell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Campbell_Astra.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164055?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164055]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=[[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet by Dallas Campbell]]=5|genre==History[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] So… you want to leave This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the planet? Before you do you'd better study passion for the whole history subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of human space flight to get up to speed. That could this, the authors take a while… if few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide downside to leaving the planetbook. [[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the planet by Dallas Campbell|Full Review]]slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}<!-- Adrian -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1999308719| styletitle="widthLive Forever Manual: 10%; verticalScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-align: top; text-align: center;"aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull[[image:Adrian_Sock.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1501315064?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1501315064]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[Sock For many years now I've (Object Lessonshalf) by Kim Adrian]]=== [[image:3joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] The subject Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or themage there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It's something I use was time to look for about 200 days of every yeara new approach and as so often happens, at a guess (wellthe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands ethics and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at companies behind the opposite end of new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the scale answer to wellmy problems -known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single dayonly you get so much more than just 101 tips.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4. On which subject5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, the amount of some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them we create every year could stack to , like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the freaking moon and morelast category. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4. [[Sock (Object Lessons) by Kim Adrian5|Full Review]]genre=Animals and Wildlife <!-- Germano -->|-| style|summary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Germano_Eye.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1501312340?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagYou may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1501312340]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano]]=== [[image:4that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's happened to meIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and like as not it has or will happen boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to youmake another, toowhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. I mean But some nature programmes do have the receipt of certain little numerical resultsprestige, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed energy and the heft to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normalitydemand follow-ups. I've had that gizmo that photos And after five years in the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problemsmaking, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and IBBC've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or s Blue Planet series has delivered a cinema or theatre productionsecond helping. And above and beyond that I}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783099593|title=Speaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary='Speaking Up've stared at – has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and got wrong – the simpleshapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, seemingly ageless testeducation, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in sizereligion, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for meworkplace and personal relationships. Of course it's not ageless, but Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the scientific progress that led mid-twentieth century to it, the changes other people made to present day. Reading it, and the cultural impact it's had are all we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on these eye-opening small pagesgendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour. [[Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano|Full Review]]}}<!-- Ball -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Campbell_Astra| styletitle="widthAd Astra: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell[[image:Ball_Wonders.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472939980/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Popular Science| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of All Things Mathematical by Johnny Ball]]=== [[image:5starhuman space flight to get up to speed.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Like many people of That could take a while… if only there was a ''certain age,'' I have fond memories of tuning in handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling leaving the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.'' 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. [[Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical by Johnny Ballplanet.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Sock (Object Lessons)|Full Review]]author=Kim Adrian <!-- YONG -->|-|rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Popular Science[[image:Yong_Contain.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784700177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and a grander view of life by Ed Yong]]=== [[image:5staryet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] The world you know is It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the modern study opposite end of Microbes. [[I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong|Full Review]] <!scale to well-known mass- Beattie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beattie_Stupendousmurderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day.jpg|left|link=https://wwwOn which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Germano_Eye|title===[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet]]===Eye Chart (Object Lessons)[[image:5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play. [[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet|Full Review]] <!-- Sarcone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"| [[image:Sarcone_Optical.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938475?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938475]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain 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 Illusions.'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]] <!-- ALLISTON -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Alliston_Build.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784938483/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] ''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys. [[Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston|Full Review]] <!-- Jopson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jopson_Science.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438386?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438386]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook by Marty Jopson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] I've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in a particular way it was very easy to remember ''how'' it worked and what you needed to do. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and he covers everything from the type of knives we use through to the food of the future. Best of all, he does it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand. [[The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook by Marty Jopson|Full Review]] <!-- Browne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Browne_Many.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845409159/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Many Faces of Coincidence by Laurence Browne]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the many faces of coincidence. [[The Many Faces of Coincidence by Laurence Browne|Full Review]] <!-- Dittricht -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]] <!-- Wolfe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wolfe_Kingdom.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178470489X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] ''If you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.'' With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements as this even up to 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 melodrama. [[The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe|Full Review]] <!-- Shaw -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Shaw_Smell.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785781138/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Smell of Fresh Rain by Barney Shaw]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] ''The Smell of Fresh Rain'' attempts to open our minds to the power and potential of our sense of smell. Barney Shaw, a man armed with only a powerful curiosity and boundless enthusiasm sets out to understand this ever elusive sense and to explore ways to interpret smells 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 the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfying. [[The Smell of Fresh Rain by Barney Shaw|Full Review]] <!-- Newman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Newman_Neuropolis.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008228655/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide by Robert Newman]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] In ''Neuropolis'', the book and the Radio 4 series, Newman targets a sub-species of pop-neuroscience that he dubs bro-science – a pessimistic, denigrating take on the brain that is based more on macho posing than on research. He sets out to destroy it using proper science. [[Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide by Robert Newman|Full Review]] <!-- Hutton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hutton_Cool.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1843653249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Cool Physics by Sarah Hutton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'', don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so 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 this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in the world of physics is very much needed. [[Cool Physics by Sarah Hutton|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author=Anthony Marson|title=Something or Nothing: A Search for My Personal Theory of EverythingWilliam Germano

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory of the meaning of the universe,and of why they - we - exist within it. It's a natural extension happened to wonder whether life was createdme, and like as not it has orwill happen to you, if not createdtoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, how was life formed? In with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I'Something or Nothingve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don' Anthony Marson develops his own theories. The journey began when t need to wear all the author was time, but certainly benefit from on a touring holiday in Tasmania, gazed up at or when watching TV or a clear night sky cinema or theatre production. And above and asked himself how beyond that I've stared at – and why all got wrong – the stars came simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to existthe relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientistsOf course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, theologians and philosophersthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Like many people of a ''certain age, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and he begins science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his search by quite openly admitting latest book proves that he has only lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world you know is a limited scientific educationlie. It was There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to know - for once - that I was on the same footing as the author save us may kill us and things we could explore togetherthink would kill us may save us. Welcome to the modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

<!-- Marsh -->[[image:Marsh Admissions.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WW5TKNP?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B06WW5TKNP]] ===[[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh]]=== Move on to [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Reference Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book do? [[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Full Review]]<br>