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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Holt1788360702|title=Why Does the World Exist? Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Existential Detective StoryUnauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=In For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyAlternative Prince'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that critically assesses the ultimate answer to lifePrince's opinions, the universe beliefs and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what aims against the ultimate question is, rendering background of the answer meaninglessscientific evidence. In ''Why Does the World Exist?'', Jim Holt explores potential answers 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 what could be considered the ultimate question reputation of life, the universe and everything – why a man who is there somethingproud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-twological reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Fernyhough0192779230|title=Pieces of LightVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: the New Science of Memory|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the years, I've seen the human memory at its best and worst. I watched my Nan suffer with Alzheimer's to the point she couldn't remember who anyone was, but also had a colleague who won a silver medal at the Memory Olympics for his ability to remember long strings of items. I also studied memory as part of a psychology degree but, perhaps ironically, I can no longer remember much The Invisible World of what I learned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668448X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Robert L Wolke and Marlene Parrish|title=What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the KitchenIsabel Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=CookeryChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Everyone'' knows that when you chop onions, you cry, but seems to have you ever wondered ''exactly'' why this happens? More become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the point have you ever considered what you might be able potential to do so that make you don't need to look like a snivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? ill. Life is littered with such conundrums (along with In the old-wives'-tale solutions) but there seem first book in what looks to be more 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 in and how the kitchen than elsewherethinking has developed over time. Robert L Wolke has The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a column in the regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Washington'' ''Post'' in which he debunks misconceptions explains some of the trickiest concepts and answers questions you'll soon be familiar with logicbacteria, science fungi, protists and viruses – and a healthy dose of common sensehow we should protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393341658</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedtgareth_steel|title=Living, Thinking, LookingNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=LifestyleAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'Living, Thinking, Looking' is a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt which, she claims, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means seems to be humanappropriate. In these essays she examines who we are and how we got that way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alasdair Wickham|title=The Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of the Unexplained|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=A collection of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'Modern Myths' from around is definitely not the world, Wickhamcompanion volume you's Black Book covers a wide range of phenomenon, from ghosts to liminal creatures, poltergeists to demons. As an aficionado of all things paranormal, this should have ve been right up my street. However, I found myself struggling to get into it, and putting it down looking for something else on more than one occasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533626</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|As a TV show the author=Alain Badiou with Nicholas Truong|title=In Praise of Love|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=would argue that ''All Creatures''Love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply an encounterlacked realism, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity.' In as do other words, when eyes look and worlds collide, the process of alteration that follows, is lovesimilar programmes. 'It is absolutely true Gareth Steel says that love can bend our bodies and prompt the sharpest torment. Love, as we can observe day in and day out, book is not a long, quiet river.' But it is not designed to be that way suitable for younger readers and - just as a record is a lump of plastic before music has been carved on it, love is just a transaction if all the chance has been ironed out of it after reading - as perhaps by an Internet match site questionnaire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687799</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil deGrasse Tyson|title=Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=A year or so ago there was a big hoopla about being able to see the International Space Station pass overhead where I live, so I dutifully clambered on to the roofagree with him. And indeed He says that he's written it was actually very warming to know I was seeing something manmadeinform and provoke thought, from 250 miles away. As for the chance to see it, its speed of 17,000mph means it orbits the planet every 92 and a half minutesparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It gets about. But deals with some of the warmth of seeing it, as well as the achievements that led up to uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and the politics of NASA's five decades - and some of the Newtonian physics involved in it - are all in this volumeeating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393082105</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett0241480442|title=LanguageHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: The Cultural ToolVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as Emotionally, I am a missionary in far flung corners of the world– a fact that isn’t surprising given the number of references to faith that crop up over the pagesvegan. This new book Mentally, however, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjects: language and travelI am a vegan. If I read [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill BrysonHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] is a travel writer with an interest and was appalled by the way in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest which we treat animals in travelour search for (preferably cheap) food. It’s Practically, I am not quite the ‘read it by a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between vegan. It worked for a formalised every day read and a text book while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a big dollop perfect storm of informality stirred those events which you hope don't occur too often inyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. The travel stories – jaunts 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 Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clearfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey MassonDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone ElseA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. 'Dogs Never Lie About LoveAlzheimer' s is a statement of the obvious to me. I've lived with disease that slowly wears away your identity and around dogs for most sense of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretenceself. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like mehave been directly affected by this cruel disease, it will tell me so straight as have many. Your memories and personality worn awaylike a statue over time affected the elements. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish seems as if nature wants that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Antonio Damasio|title=Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain|rating=4final victory over you and your dignity.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=What makes us, us? How This is awareness of one's own being created in the human mind? What what makes Daniel Gibbs''me'' who got up this morning ''me'' that went to bed last night, and the same ''me'' that got up on most mornings in the preceding forty-odd years? How memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is it that we see, remember and understand things, other humans and the world in general? And a neurologist who is doing the understanding? How is it that we are conscious of our own experiences, and how is it that we are conscious of ourselves being conscious?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099498022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John D Barrow|title=The Book Of Universes|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The idea of a 'multiverse' - multiple universes existing alongside each other - is something science fiction and fantasy fans are fairly au fait was diagnosed with. Parallel realities in which you made a different decision at a pivotal moment Alzheimers and, as a consequence, have evolved has documented his journey in entirely different ways, have been fodder for authors, scriptwriters and 'what if' musings for some time, but recently, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicholas Mee|title=Higgs Force|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Nicholas Mee, was a Senior Wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge and having taken his PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics by submitting his thesis A Tattoo on my Brain''Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Geometry'', he is uniquely qualified to explain the mysteries of the Higgs force. He is also a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Whereas other texts rapidly resort to references to erudite constructs like 'non-zero expectation values', 'zz Dibosons' and 'Bose-Einstein statistics', Dr Mee provides an accurate account of the Geneva experiments with the Large Hadron Collider, provides his readers with some insight into the character of eminent physicists, and furnishes a lucid account of current theories. Included is an exposition of the discovery of elements by Sir Humphry Davy to recent experiments to discover Peter Higg's elusive particle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718892755</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart0099551063|title=17 Equations That Changed The WorldWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=''17 Equations That Changed the World'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.' takes us through the history of mathematics, from Pythagoras through Einstein's theory of relativy and chaos theory. It highlights the most influently equations, clearly explains them, and establishes the full ranges of breakthroughs they led to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)|title=Queen Until the events of the Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years and read January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many books about the subject, readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of the 'how its shock value but it does help us to..' or 'understand more about the science of… varietynature of psychopathy. But this book is a revelation as it genuinely tries It's too easy to celebrate beesassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, capturing the real 'feel' of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much sooner. For Siegel and Betz have collected a series of short articles, poems and essays not about the technique and science of the craftlife Hannibal Lecter, but about the purpose and 'soul' behind ittruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Skene1849767343|title=Escape from BubbleworldCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the thought The title and format of another this book assaulting population growth, western greed and reckless exploitation of the environment, take time might lead you to read the first chapter of Keith Skenethink that it's either about responsibility - or it'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this is as entertaining and amusing s a basic 1-2-3 book as you are likely to read for those just starting out on the subject, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science and fascinating exploration numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of what turns out praise to be less certain certaintiesmaths. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the non-scientific reading It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MaloufB08B39QNRH|title=The Happy LifeCurious History of Writer's Cramp: The Search for Contentment in the Modern WorldSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which Society is subtitled based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Marcus Chown|title=Solar System|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=With beautiful photographs I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the wonders word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the solar system, this is history of a gorgeous coffee table book problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy. Marcus Chown's descriptions are insome three-hundred-depth enough to warrant considered years seemed liked excellent background readingand so it proved, but if you're after a simple with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and casual flick through, you'll still find plenty to appealthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571277713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Forsyth1776572858|title=The EtymologiconHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=TriviaHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I like wordsasked how babies were made. Words are awesome My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. End A couple of. But days later I also like trivia. was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I like knowing things was told that perhaps other it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people don’ttalked about''. I ''knew'' more, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to thembut was little ''wiser''. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win Thankfully, and this one is so good I think we’ll times have to call it a win-win-winchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon BarnesDanny Dorling|title=Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsongSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=One of my best-ever auditory memories is waking up We are living in a tent to a dawn chorustime of rapid change, sung in the middle of Ireland in springand we're worried about it. It was a high-decibel effort Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and seemed to involve hundreds of birdsprobably good for us. I'm ashamed We are designed to say that I couldnworry and with the current state of what we't begin to identify re doing in the multitude of species I heard that morning. So I suppose I chose this book expecting it world we have much to be a field guide that could at long last help me get a handle on birdsongworried about. But However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it isnsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't yet another handbookbe as worried as we are, but a much more interesting book than or in some cases thatwe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, which I thought would make a great present for a new birdwatcherthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595473</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=PredatorsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of humans they helped to dispatchthe list were even numbers, mosquitoes may be but the most deadly animals everother half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But did you know that if you take into account (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the success rate odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of huntsthe even numbers, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Leith1910593508|title=You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to ObamaApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=Over This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the years I've trained myself (fairly successfully) not to judge a book Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by its coverMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. I've added 'not judging This is a book by its title' to story we know well and because of this, the training, but what do you do when your first impressions of authors take a book - few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the title ''and'' blanks. These shortcuts are the cover - scream 'trivia'? Well, I put this one only downside to one side on the basis that it really wasnbook. If you't likely to be ve ever read a comic book which would interest me. Picking it up and looking at adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the contents was almost accidental - slight feeling that there are scenes missing and then I discovered that this book dialogue has been trimmed. This is a gold minegraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683157</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Grice1999308719|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, live forever and that the real animal knew so far, it was second best to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over themworking out OK. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue Time has passed though and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding although I'm a black bear her own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought great deal fitter and healthier than most people of the taste my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans canbalance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy|title=How It was time to Save the World with Salad Dressing|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world is under threat from look for a manic Bond-type baddie. You, my friendly readernew approach and as so often happens, are the only person with reviewing gods brought me the smarts enough to save itbook I needed. You'd better not be one of my less intelligent friends'Live Forever Manual: Science, because according to this book one needs a lot of physicsethics and companies behind the new anti-inclined lateral thinking to carry out ageing treatments'' seemed like the dangerous tasks ahead. You'll need answer to know about gravity and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and my problems - only you get so much more to get through the puzzles herethan just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Hayden1847941834|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives a brief explanation and discussion of each idea, and shows how through the ages philosophers have argued pretty much everything you could think of, much of which seems bizarre to the modern thinker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAtomic Habits|author=Stephen H Segal|title=Geek WisdomJames Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, but on the Big Bang scale I'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. I was weaned on ''Star Trek '', chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 exam, and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same time, there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but I've never seen a ''Batman'' film, never read a comic book, never quite understood what all the ''Star Wars'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi is a religion, then said this is the book that can fill me in one the stories, the parables, the rules, as it were, of geekdom. I had to have it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year has passed, and once again we're treated to another offering from New Scientist's Last Word column. We've been here before, with [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|Penguins]], [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]], [[How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare|Elephants]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|Hamsters]]. Now it's time for the orangutan to find out why he's orange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Crystal|title=The Story Of English In 100 Words|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Crystal is a god when it comes to language. I’ve known but there are some books that since I was quoting him during English A Level, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask 'Why?' and you need an answer other than 'Because'. This is his new bookseek out, but some books that you don’t need a degree in linguistics to find it fascinating, stumble across and in addition to the intriguing revelations and chummy writing stylesome books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas present.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Niall McCrae|title=The Moon and Madness|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=A book entitled ''The Moon and Madness'' has the potential to be a pile of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokumlike, and there is not a whiff of New Age hanging over it. right now! We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds of lunatics in the asylum howling at the full moon. Of course, the very word 'lunatic' has its origins in the moon. McCrae tries to separate myth and fact in this fascinating book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John L Locke|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Locke's subtitle 'Atomic Habits'Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another self-help ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Connor|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=...In which our author considers the smaller, less noticeable items in our lives. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things are things that we allow and expect to do things back to us. Magical things all do more, and mean more than they might be supposed to." Principally these are the little flotsam that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our person, and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think aboutlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BrooksHoneyborne BlueII|title=Free RadicalsBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=We often have an image You may well remember when the sticking of scientists as quietly plodding away, with small breakthrough a number '2' after small breakthrougha film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. When That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the big breakthroughs come, they downplay thingscinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and insist upon logical and levelnever in the world of non-headed cautionfiction. It's all very mild-mannered If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and polite. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals, whoboy aren'll do anything for success. There t there are a lot of those who mercilessly put down their rivals, those who use drugs these days) and wants to stimulate their breakthroughsmake another, those who put themselves in harm's way in why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the pursuit of truthprestige, the energy and those who just plain go about things their own waythe heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, regardless of what anyone else saysthe BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wheen1783099593|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=You know exactly what you're getting when you read the summary of Andrew WheenSpeaking Up's ''Dothas a fascinating subject matter -Dash To Dothow language reflects and shapes our notions of gender.Com''It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. ''How Modern Telecommunications Evolved Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the Telegraph mid-twentieth century to the Internet'' sums present day. Reading it up perfectly. This is a history of technology , we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the people involved in creating that technology. It serves as a primer for anyone Kardashians with an interest or need to know about telecommunicationsequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441967591</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Stephanie Pain|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science book, part trivia, each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget, or when reading from cover to cover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonah LehrerCampbell_Astra|title=Proust Was a Neuroscientist|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivion'. This fully accords with the discoveries of modern brain science. Proust in his famous novel, 'In Search of Lost Time' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientists, such as Rachel Hertz, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly to the hippocampus. Thus the taste of a petit madeleine evokes a rediscovery by Proust of Combray and a flow of associations - it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centred. Lehrer in ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves an intriguing argument about the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries and the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[Ad Astra:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], has a taste for philosophy; Lehrer intends An illustrated guide to heal the rift between what C.P.Snow termed leaving the 'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect to the truths and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and painters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewplanet|author=John Lister-Kaye|title=At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the WildDallas Campbell|rating=35

|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly about, and one with which I must confess So… you want to having a love/hate relationship! I loved leave the detailed observation, planet? Before you do you'd better study the sharing whole history of knowledge human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study of the countrysidecould condense it all down for you. He delights in and pays as much attention Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the structure of a spider's web as to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcatplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartAdrian_Sock|title=Mathematics of LifeSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=Mathematics The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and biology donyet my partner't traditionally mixs daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. As science developsIt's something I use for about 200 days of every year, the boundaries between maths and physicsat a guess (well, physics and chemistry and chemistry and biology I have become more my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and more blurred. As it is nowother people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, biology requires many mathematical techniquesTed Bundy, and it's fair who was into stealing credit cards to assume that major biological breakthroughs over the next hundred years will also have fund his desire of having a strong basis in maths toofresh pair every single day. Ian Stewart looks at On which subject, the major steps forward in amount of them we create every year could stack to the history of biologyfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, and the areas where maths which is at plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the forefront of developmenthumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony JamesGermano_Eye|title=The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob BronowskiEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Jacob Bronowski was a scientific administratorIt's happened to me, poetand like as not it has or will happen to you, philosophertoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, dramatist, radio 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 TV personalityother problems, best remembered for I've had different tests to check the series pressure inside my eye, and I'The Ascent of Manve come away with glasses I don'. This short bookt need to wear all the time, about 90 pages longbut certainly benefit from on holiday, is partly biographical sketch, partly or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – in fact largely and got wrong – an overview the simple, seemingly ageless test, of his major published worksvarious letters in various configurations that diminish in size, occupying about two-thirds of to prove to the bookrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. In the authorOf course, it's wordsnot ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopher, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean CarrollBall_Wonders|title=From Eternity to HereWonders Beyond Numbers: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory A Brief History of TimeAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=4.5

|summary=The Prologue sets out what this book is about. ItLike many people of a 's about ' ... the nature of time, the beginning of the universecertain age, and the underlying structure of physical reality.' OK? Bring on those questions. Yes, it's a weighty tome in terms of size and subject matter, but I would certainly describe the front cover as reader-friendly, so therefore should have broad appeal. I love fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the title of this book, lots virtues of thought has been put into it maths and it certainly grabbed my attention - science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and Iactually making these subjects ''m no scientistfun. The classic movie from the '' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book ... I also loved Carroll's language - 'The Elegant Universe' proves that he has lost none of his passion and 'a preposterous universe' These are phrases to make you stop and think. And I certainly didenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687955</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland SmithYong_Contain|title=Driving with PlatoI Contain Multitudes: The Meaning the microbes within us and a grander view of Life's Milestoneslife|author=Ed Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=''Driving with Plato'' The world you know is a companion book to [[Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with Socrates]], in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines health are all far more interesting. Here, in the company of a similarly eclectic range of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school and riding a bike, to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a mid-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age and deathcomplex than we thought. Montaigne said that to philosophise was to learn how Things designed to die, save us may kill us and here Roland Smith ensures that things we think about each stage leading up would kill us may save us. Welcome to that momentthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mark Stevenson|title=An Optimist's Tour of the Future|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future we would soon be living in. In terms of technological advancement we're not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time for a revised view of what is Move on to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde|title=Sleights of Mind|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I have a passing interest in both magic and neuroscience. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladies, but I was also very keen to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and as a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed the [http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ Illusion of the Year contest[Newest Reference Reviews]]. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn and...) and Johnny Thompson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowing: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goes, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}