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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Charlotte Guillain 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 Yuval Zommerhis 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-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Street Beneath My FeetInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=It's one thing for Germs' seems to have become a noncatch-fiction book for all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the young potential to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardmake you ill. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see In the first book in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has what looks to be key, in portraying the invisiblea very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and presenting what can only come from accessible introduction to the pages world of a bookgerms. And this example does it We get an informed look at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and down, through all how the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetthinking has developed over time. And thereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's only one way to go from there – back out which explains some of the other sidetrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journeyfungi, then protists and viruses – and a quite fantastic volumehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Jonesgareth_steel|title= Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|rating= 4|genre= Never Work With Animals and Wildlife |summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Bakewell|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsGareth Steel

|genre= Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it! I seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have found 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 by judging a ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book by its cover is not suitable for younger readers and getting it completely wrong is a great way to find yourself committed to - after reading a book - I agree with him. He says that youhe'd never have picked in a million years s written it to inform and yetprovoke thought, somehowparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, being amazingly glad although there are occasions when you didwould be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton0241480442|title= Healthy Vegan The British PhoneboxCookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= History Cookery|summary= The mobile phone must be one of the most usedEmotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, mustI am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-have accessories of Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the modern ageway 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 one device odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you cannot escape from hope don't occur too often in publicyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. Some 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 us with (relatively) long memories must look back on the age being able to get sufficient protein when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme as meals were often snatched in a long time agofew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Autobiography|summary=I take it as read Alzheimer's is a disease that you know some slowly wears away your identity and sense of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allself. So I won't go into the extremes reached have been directly affected by the ''Voyager'' space craftthis cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anythingelements. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt It seems as if nature wants that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, final victory over you and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesyour dignity. What you might not be This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so genned up on admirable. Daniel Gibbs is the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. When I neurologist who was a nipper they were stately texts, diagnosed with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, theyAlzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa0099551063|title=Little PeopleThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Big Dreams: Marie CurieSpies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=I have lived my life determined not to ''age'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'': I see nothing aspirational in  Until the dependence events of old age6 January 2021 that might have surprised, whether even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it be on other people, government in all along. The statement has lost a little of its forms or shock value but it does help us to understand more about the NHSnature of psychopathy. IIt'm prepared s too easy to put effort into this: it's not associate psychopathy with the cosmetic image of youth I seekYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, but rather the ability to do as I do now real- running a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possible. So far it's working outHannibal Lecter, but what else could I do and ''why'' does this work for some people and not for others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedt1849767343|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays Count on Art, Sex and the MindMe|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I must confess The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it'A Woman Lookings a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it' spoke to me on s a profound, intimate level. This is in part due hymn of praise to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivemaths. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman Looking' It' s about why maths is that so wonderful and how you meet it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplineseveryday life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew MorrisB08B39QNRH|title= Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=This unusual science textbook is based on the meetings of a science discussion group who raise questions from their everyday life. The group's resident science expert, Andrew Morris, does a sterling job in trying to answer some of their most obscure and challenging issues, which range from the physics of light and electricity to brain chemistry and social anthropology. Each chapter is based around a theme which grows from an observation made by a group member, such as ''what colour is the blood in the body'' and ''why is the tide so far out at Blackpool''. This tie-in to the reality of our lives, makes the science more interesting and somehow more useful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911307037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Brown|title=Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb|rating=3.5|genre=Curious History|summary=What, do you think, was more feared in 1941 and 1942 than the Nazi Party? Well, a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on the list. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but I'm not so sure. A lot of the people to be at the forefront of the nuclear physics of the age were German, and the first nuclear fission was on their soil. Two things seemed to be needed for nuclear arms – uranium, which they procured by capturing Czechoslovakia, the location of one its greatest source mines; and heavy water. That so nearly fell into Nazi hands when they invaded Norway, but what seems to have been the great majority of the worldWriter's supply had only just been smuggled out. [[Fatherland by Robert Harris|Some fiction]] takes great strides to suggest in a fantasy way that if Hitler hadn't concentrated on exterminating Jews, he would have had the energy to win the war – and it must only be a short step to see his imperial expansionism as having Cramp: Solving an ulterior motive in nuclear materiel. But make no mistake, this is not fiction – these are the pure facts behind the issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664674</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Stewart|title= Calculating the Cosmos|rating= 3|genre= Popular Scienceage-old problem|summary= In ''Calculating the Cosmos'' Ian Stewart attempts to explain how mathematics, a subject which strikes fear into the hearts of many, can be used to explain the wonders of the universe in a way which is accessible and understandable in a concise 352 pages. According to Stewart, Calculating the Cosmos takes us from the surface of the Earth to the outer reaches of the cosmos and from the beginning of time to the end of the universe. Does he achieve this? As the author himself states, the fun is in finding out so if you have any interest in mathematics, the universe and the complexities of space and time this may just be the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jack Challoner|title= The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of LifeMichael Pritchard|rating= 4.5

|summary=I've always been mesmerised by micro-worlds and 'Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the fact that the tiniest things are made up of even smaller intricate partswritten word''.  I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The first time I saw a picture Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a human cell, rather strange route. I was fascinated by its complexity. have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'The Cell: I prefer the word 'painful' is but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history of a visual marvel, filled with fullproblem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-colour cell images taken by optical years seemed liked excellent background reading and electron microscopesso it proved, using phase contrast, fluorescence with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and dark-field illumination to colour and differentiate the individual components. The detailed text that accompanies each image explains how cells begin, reproduce, protect themselves and come together in extraordinary ways to create complex lifechanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1776572858|title=Botanicum How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (Welcome To The Museumtranslator)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=It''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and I'll admit told me that for the moment I was confused as Ishe've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I wasd get me a book about it. One A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the authorsbasics, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museumknew'' more, unless itbut was little ''wiser''s that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clive GiffordDanny Dorling|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity BookSlowdown|rating= 54|genre= Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=We are living in a time of rapid change, and we''This re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is Not a Science Booknormal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we'' explores re doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the oftennext three-hundred-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting-some pages, glueingif you can follow the arguments, twistingit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, colouring and shading or in order to create a variety of at-home experiments some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as entertaining rapidly as we think they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during In fact, the long (rate of change in many things is slowing down and often wet) school holidaysthe direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoLangford_Emily|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=54

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and who better there's no limit to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? 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. In this handbook, created Then she began counting in conjunction with threes: half of the CoderDojo Foundationlist were even numbers, children but the other half was odd and it was this list of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS and Javascriptodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Don(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they't worry too much if some re a subset of those words don't mean anything the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to you - all will be made clear as you read through the book. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms subset of harnessing creativitythe even numbers, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamworkbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo1910593508|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=The Nanonauts want This incredible graphic novel is a website love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for their bandthe subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and who better to build it for them than the CoderDojo network because of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of seven plus a film you will learn how to build be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a website using HTMLgraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, CSS ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and Javascriptthat so far, it was working out OK. DonTime has passed though and although I't worry too much if some m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of those words don't mean anything balance. It was time to you - all will be made clear look for a new approach and as you read through so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the bookI needed. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends 'Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti- which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to code my problems - and the benefits of teamworkonly you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State1847941834|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=Learning to codeI've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, even heading some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into my seventh decade, changed my your life and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doors. It might look complicatedyou really MUST read them, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imagination. I had a reasonable mastery of the skills of basic HTML in three days with the benefit of a personal tutorlike, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? right now! ''Get Coding!Atomic Habits'' seems like is in the perfect answerlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Arabella Kurtz and J M CoetzeeHoneyborne BlueII|title= The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Psychoanalytic PsychotherapyMark Brownlow|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= We live by storiesYou may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. Novelists weave tales that may or may not reflect realityThat has hardly been proven correct, and that we accept as their job: but it has until recently almost been confined to create fictions with intriguing character plots that draw inthe cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, surprise and touch the reader is at never in the core world of their job descriptionnon-fiction. But story telling goes beyond profession: everyoneIf someone has made a nature series about, writer or notsay, sometimes more consciouslyAlaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress otherswhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and constantly weave together a story of who we arethe heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a tale of identitysecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett1783099593|title=Sea JournalSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=54

|summary=Over the course of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although 'visitsSpeaking Up' might make what happens sound has a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beaches, fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and some further afield, in much the same way that a gardener knows their own plotshapes our notions of gender. She's aware It looks at our use of minute changeslanguage in media, education, how the phase of the moon will affect the tidereligion, what she can expect to find in the strandline workplace and where it's come frompersonal relationships. She delights in every variation Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the weather and she's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths to upmid-twentieth century to-the-minute sciencepresent day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig MartinCampbell_Astra|title= Shipping Container (Object Lessons)|rating= 3|genre= Popular Science|summary= This book is small, not even 150 pages of text, and more like 100 if you exclude the index, references and acknowledgements so perhaps it's unsurprising that it had Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to choose a more limited focus. There is plenty still to learn from leaving the book. The word 'dunnage' is used daily and everyone knows what it means (the stuff inside containers to protect contents from damage during transit) but it was interesting to learn the origin of its use. Twist locks – the mighty strong connectors that can be used to link containers together – are also heavily featured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501303147</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewplanet|author=Tristan Gooley|title=How to Read WaterDallas Campbell|rating=45

|summary=Signs are all around us, if we know where So… you want to look. The ability to read and interpret signs is particularly useful to navigators and those who make their living on leave the water. In fact, planet? Before you do you'd better study the ability whole history of human space flight to get up to read water can mean the difference between life and death, especially when strong tidal currents are involvedspeed. Of course, That could take a while… if only there are those who take water-reading beyond the ability of even the most experienced sailors. Traditional Arab navigators called this knowledge the ''isharat.'' Pacific islanders call was a handy guide that could condense it ''kapesani lemetau''-the talk of the sea or water loreall down for you. Those who posses such knowledge have been baffling Westerners for centuries Enter Dallas Campbell with their seemingly preternatural ability this book: An illustrated guide to understand leaving the waterplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael MarderAdrian_Sock|title=Dust Sock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=''Dust'' is among the latest volumes in BloomsburyThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's fascinating new 'Object Lessons' seriesdaughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' to ''Shipping Container'It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, the books aim I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to explore think about) – which clearly puts me at the hidden histories opposite end of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University scale to well-known mass-murderer of the Basque Countrywomen, Spain. NeverthelessTed Bundy, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of skin cells and hairhaving a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the detritus amount of our human bodiesthem we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Thus dusting – the verb form – is Some idiots buy more than six pairs a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselvesyear, apparently, ultimately a futile and 'self-defeating occupationwhich is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cedric VillaniGermano_Eye|title=Birth of a TheoremEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=It''Birth s happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a Theorem'' is a remarkable journey into positive or negative before them to prove the world of correction needed to my vision to make me see with the abstract mathematics that shape our lives intended clarity and existencenormality. When you first open I've had that gizmo that photos the book back of my eye to check for diabetes and flick through other problems, I've had different tests to check the pagespressure inside my eye, you are confronted and I've come away with complex formulas glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that disorientate the mind I've stared at – and defy got wrong – the understanding simple, seemingly ageless test, of anyone not versed various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the language of the mathematician. You realise relevant scientist at this point that you need a guide what stage things get blurry for your journey and there is none better that Cedric Vallinime. He is a winner of Of course, it's not ageless, but the Fields Medalscientific progress that led to it, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. A genius who has dedicated his life changes other people made to understanding it, and the most complex aspects of our world. He is also a writer gifted in conveying the elation and despair that his gift can bringcultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam GrantBall_Wonders|title= OriginalsWonders Beyond Numbers: 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 A Brief History 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>}}{{newreviewAll Things Mathematical|author=Ben Miller|title=The Aliens are ComingJohnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and citiesLike many people of a ''certain age, wait until it gets dark and then look into the night sky. If you are lucky enough for it not to be raining, you will likely see hundreds '' I have fond memories of stars tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the sky. Each one virtues of these could be a Sun just like maths and science; succeeding where our own schoolteachers had failed and each of actually making these Suns could subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have planets orbiting it. Now times this number a million fold and you can start to fathom the number passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of stars his passion and planets out there – surely the human race is not a complete fluke and there are aliens out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>enthusiasm for his subject.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens HarderYong_Contain|title=AlphaI Contain Multitudes: Directionsthe microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|genre=Graphic NovelsPopular Science|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literate. If The world you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will work. I know the book isn't designed to be is a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novels, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argumentlie. What it There is designed to be is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantlyno such thing as good or bad microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clancy Martin|title= Love Sickness and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other|rating= 3health are all far more complex than we thought.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Lying is wrong Things designed to save us may kill us and the last people you things we think would lie to willingly are the ones you love the most – or so you would like to thinkkill us may save us. In ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, and serial groom, sets out on a mission Welcome to disprove the central beliefs we hold with respect to, no more and no less than, our own moralitymodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>