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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tristan Gooley1788360702|title=How to Read WaterCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Signs are all around usFor over forty years, if we know where to look. The ability to read and interpret signs is particularly useful to navigators and those who make their living on the water. In fact, the ability to read water can mean the difference between life Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and death, especially when strong tidal currents are involved. Of course, there are those who take water-reading beyond the ability of even the most experienced sailorscomplementary therapies. Traditional Arab navigators called this knowledge the ''isharat.Charles, The Alternative Prince'' Pacific islanders call it critically assesses the Prince''kapesani lemetau''-s opinions, beliefs and aims against the talk background of the sea or water lorescientific evidence. Those who posses such knowledge There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have been baffling Westerners for centuries with their seemingly preternatural ability no scientific support has done considerable damage to understand the waterreputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615208</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Marder0192779230|title=Dust (Object Lessons)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Dust'' is among the latest volumes in Bloomsbury's fascinating new 'Object Lessons' series. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' to ''Shipping Container'', the books aim to explore the hidden histories of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopherVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: he is a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Nevertheless, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed of skin cells and hair, the detritus The Invisible World of our human bodies. Thus dusting – the verb form – is a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselves, ultimately a futile and 'self-defeating occupation'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Cedric Villani|title=Birth of a TheoremIsabel Thomas
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Birth of seems to have become a Theorem'' is a remarkable journey into catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the world of potential to make you ill. In the abstract mathematics that shape our lives and existence. When you first open the book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and flick through the pages, you are confronted with complex formulas that disorientate the mind Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and defy accessible introduction to the understanding of anyone not versed in the language world of the mathematiciangerms. You realise We get an informed look at this point that you need a guide for your journey how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and there is none better that Cedric Vallinihow the thinking has developed over time. He is The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a winner scientist' which explains some of the Fields Medaltrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. A genius who has dedicated his life to understanding the most complex aspects of our world. He is also a writer gifted in conveying the elation protists and viruses – and despair that his gift can bringhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Grantgareth_steel|title= Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World |rating= 4 |genre= Popular Science|summary=Did you know that procrastination could actually aid creativity? No? Neither did I, but it's a piece of information that I shall embrace and wield in my defence from here on out, because Adam Grant says it is so. Filled with interesting snippets and fascinating cases, Originals is not just entertaining, but instructive as well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556979</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNever Work With Animals|author=Ben Miller|title=The Aliens are ComingGareth Steel
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and cities, wait until it gets dark and then look into the night sky. If you are lucky enough for I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it not seems to be raining, you will likely see hundreds of stars in the skyappropriate. Each one Stories of these could be a Sun just like our own vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and each of these Suns could have planets orbiting itSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. Now times this number As a million fold and you can start to fathom TV show the number of stars and planets out there – surely author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the human race book is not a complete fluke 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 aliens out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder0241480442|title=AlphaHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: DirectionsVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCookery|summary=SoEmotionally, people might still ask meI am a vegan. Mentally, why do I turn am a vegan. I read [[How to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? 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. YeahPractically, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literateI am not a vegan. If It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I hope don't know what will workoccur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. I know the book isnIt wasn't designed to be a message to people in the debate about taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the literary worth of graphic novels, but one sideanimal kingdom -effect it was the ease of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed being able to be is get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantlyfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clancy MartinDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the OtherA Tattoo on my Brain|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= Lying Alzheimer's is wrong 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 last people elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you would lie to willingly are the ones you love the most – or and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so you would like to thinkadmirable. In Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the OtherA Tattoo on my Brain'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, and serial groom, sets out on a mission to disprove the central beliefs we hold with respect to, no more and no less than, our own morality.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Wulf0099551063|title=The Invention Wisdom of NaturePsychopaths: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born Lessons in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted life from an excellent educationSaints, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met Spies and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSerial Killers|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey|title=The HuntDr Kevin Dutton
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|summary=Chalk and cheese; your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from '' Until the other, whether through colour and crumbliness, or physical form, or from being studies events of the mind. The only thing is6 January 2021 that might have surprised, one pair is alone. Your two hands formed at the same time, whereas chalk is the older, and philosophy predates psychologyeven shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The two were the same thing until recently, and we can perhaps point at statement has lost a William James as little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the father nature of the splitpsychopathy. I make this point because when I reviewed this volumeIt's [[Why We Think too easy to associate psychopathy with the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or history evident. Here, howeverRobert Maudsley, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas of idiocy-cumreal-possession in our early historylife Hannibal Lecter, through phrenology and mesmerism to but the birth of psychology. The fact truth is that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms as the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remainhaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Stephen1849767343|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a NutshellCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Way back when, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's hard to believe sometimes, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going to do a philosophy Abasic 1-level. No, I said – there was no point in studying something nobody can agree about. The introduction to this 2-3 book raises much for those just starting out on the same point – the solution to philosophical questions and study is only ever going to be more questionsnumbers journey. It says that Kant thought the study of thought, isn't: it'or, more precisely, how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed studys a hymn of praise to maths. Still, study it many people do do – It's about why maths is so wonderful and probably a far greater number would wish to read around it and find out what it might be like to sound as if how you have studied meet it – hence books like thisin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will CohuB08B39QNRH|title=Out The Curious History of the WoodsWriter's Cramp: the armchair guide to treesSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard
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|summary=Most people probably accept trees as, well, ''treesSociety is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. They I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp're there and they're greenby a rather strange route. Some are lighter, some darker. Some are taller and other go for width, but I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. 'interesting': I knew that prefer the big tree at the bottom of next doorword 'painful's garden is a sycamore, but only because I heard someone say 'have an interest in the way that sycamore is going to cause problems with hands work. An exploration of the drains history of a problem which has defeated some of the flats at the back'. I was OK on white horse chestnuts toobest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, but only when with the kids were collecting conkers, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's book landed on my desk being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and I opened it expecting to find lots of pictures with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberchanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia Cheng1776572858|title=Cakes, Custard How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsDon Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary= Eugenia Cheng is a professor of maths It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a lover of cakebook about it. If you’re wondering how those two things could ever intersect, it’s quite easy. And the result, the middle A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Venn diagrambasics, if you will, is this book in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which makes maths funnice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, meaningful and relatively easy to digestbut was little ''wiser''. Much like her recipes Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsDanny Dorling|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsSlowdown|rating=54|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Oceans We are living in 30 Seconds a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy Pressnormal, which aims natural and probably good for us. We are designed to give an informative worry and entertaining overview with the current state of a given subject what we're doing in bitethe world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twohundred-and-page spreadsome pages, with a concise description on if you can follow the leftarguments, covering all of the main pointsit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, and a colourful illustration on or in some cases that we're worrying about the right hand pagewrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, complete with extra snippets of informationthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up In fact, which further condenses the main idea rate of change in many things is slowing down and the chapter direction of change will in some cases go into a single sentencereverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartLangford_Emily|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enoughEmily found words ''useful'', with a really interesting look at numbers as seen by the earliest peoplebut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, before moving on you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a brief explanation step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of natural the list were even numbers, rational numbers, negative numbers but the other half was odd and complex and prime it was this list of odd numberswhich occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as Pythagoras’s theorem, they're a subset of the Fibonacci cube, negative odd numbers, pi and quadratic equations, and other lesser known concepts such but sound as kissing though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, imaginary numbers and the winsomely-named Sausage Conjecturebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin1910593508|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins
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|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as This incredible graphic novel is a psychologist love letter to the Moon landings and therapist her husband died suddenlythe passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must ''not'' doChris Baker and Mike Collins. She knew that she must not develop This is a sense story we know well and because of entitlementthis, feel resentment or succumb to self-pitythe authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using These shortcuts are the principles which she applied only downside to herself. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies to combat themthe book. But the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if If you've suffered ever read a comic book adaptation of a bereavement, film you need to grieve - it's about having will be familiar with the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengesslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1999308719|title=Wheat BellyLive Forever Manual: The effortless health Science, ethics and weightcompanies behind the new anti-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it For many years now I've (half) joked that people who are leading an active life I intended to live forever and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? that so far, it was working out OK. He Time has passed though and although I'm a simple great deal fitter and worrying answer: wheat, healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugarwere tipping my life out of balance. The problem isn't restricted It was time to weight gainlook for a new approach and as so often happens, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism toothe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. In fact - the more that you read''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the more younew anti-ageing treatments'll wonder if there's an organ in seemed like the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheatanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Dartnell1847941834|title=The KnowledgeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth I've said this before but there are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthysome books that you seek out, The ''MaddAdam'' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled to hear her some books that you stumble across and some books described as 'Science Fiction')that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! and the recent ''Station ElevenAtomic Habits'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just a small drop is in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic bookslast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edzard ErnstHoneyborne BlueII|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Finding TroubleMark Brownlow
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after You may well remember when the end sticking of World War II and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he a number '2' after a film title was born as well as an insatiable curiosity suggesting something of prestige - with that the two not being entirely entirely unconnectedfirst film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to his stepthe cinema -father about the death you barely got a TV series worthy of six million Jews a numbered sequel, and never in the course world of the war provednon-fiction. In his teens he wasnIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't determined to become there are a doctor - he had a hankering lot of those these days) and wants to be a musician make another, why she just makes another - despite nothing would justify the fact that it was numeral. But some nature programmes do have the family businessprestige, so to speak, but came round to the idea energy and practiced the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the universitymaking, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=New Scientist1783099593|title=Question Everything: 132 science questions - and their unexpected answersSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=4.5
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|summary=For years now the 'Speaking Up'New Scientist'' magazine has had a column whereby people submit questions they want the answer to, fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and it's up to correspondents from all walks shapes our notions of life to submit the answer and explain the solutiongender. It's nothing new – the Guardian had it for yearslooks at our use of language in media, then the Daily Mail probably had Britain's most popular varianteducation, what with it being dailyreligion, but none were purely science-based such as that under perusal. It's a simple format for a book – not only does it create a fun kick-back at the close of an at-times hard-going science read, it generates a book full of fun workplace and intriguing Q&As almost every yearpersonal relationships. Chances are that, by relying Author Allyson Jule calls on the interests an encyclopedic body of their audience, research from the editors have allowed themselves mid-twentieth century to publish books the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that will appeal to many people who have never looked at their weekly edition – certainly they have has ever been incredibly popular, said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and massively boosted the magazine's public recognition. And this volume will not be any differentKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251649</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfDallas Campbell|rating=45
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|summary=WeSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think d better study the whole history of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people human space flight to back that reason get up with scientific datato speed. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that That could provoke take a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere while… if only there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets was a handy guide that could turn our world upside condense it all down at the blink of an eyefor you. Perhaps then you better read Enter Dallas Campbell with this book first – for it may well turn out : An illustrated guide to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>leaving the planet.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical MysteriesSock (Object Lessons)|author=Ian StewartKim Adrian
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|summary=AhThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, those pesky number thingsor them. Not just [[RogersonIt's Book something I use for about 200 days of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the Seven Wonders opposite end of the World by Barnaby Rogerson|Rogerson's Book scale to well-known mass-murderer of Numbers: The culture women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of numbers from 1001 Nights to having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the Seven Wonders amount of the World]] and how them we have related create every year could stack to certain ones, but how they all relate to each other, the freaking moon and have provided mathematical scientists with thousands upon thousands of hours of thinking timemore. Just one problem in these pages has ended with not so much Some idiots buy more than six pairs a checkable proofyear, but a third more data again than the entire Wikipedia projectapparently, which is plain stupid. Within this book are numbers far too big I'm talking, as you would not even manage to write them out given the entire lifespan can tell, of the universe (and ones bigger than that) and problems wherein one must define as many integers as possible using merely 1s and mathematical symbolshumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Germano_Eye|title=The Edge of the SkyEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Roberto TrottaWilliam Germano|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''. Apparently thatIt's advice happened to budding journalists me, and writerslike as not it has or will happen to you, and too. I do try to follow mean the English translation receipt of itcertain little numerical results, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing make me see with the dictum is Roberto Trottaintended clarity and normality. This book is his survey I've had that gizmo that photos the back of current astrophysics my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and cosmological scienceI've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but one certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that has diminish in size, to convey everything it intends prove to by using only the most common thousand words of relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the English language. So there is no Big Bang as suchscientific progress that led to it, planets have the changes other people made to be called Crazy Stars – it, and the cultural impact it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand eitherhad are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithJohnny Ball
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|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute Like many people of a ''certain age,'' I have found fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the answer to one virtues of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace it. I was delighted then, when maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''Inventions in 30 Secondsfun.'' arrived for me to reviewAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, as I saw it as a dose his latest book proves that he has lost none of much-needed respite from my endless researchhis passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Anna ClaybourneEd Yong
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|summary=Our body The world you know is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneouslylie. Even when we are sleeping, our body There is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and filtering waste. When we health are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damage. When all far more complex than we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works to repel the invadersthought. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary Smith|title=Standard Deviations|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the years I've regularly been infuriated by the way that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately Things designed to deceive save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. Politicians, journalists, academics all seem Welcome to fall into the trap with alarming regularity and I was tempted into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) that 'If you torture data long enough, it will confess'. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale for seven years and is now a professor at Pomona College in Californiamodern study of microbes. His book is aimed at the layman rather than the academic - does it hit the mark?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>
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