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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja1788360702|title=SelectedCharles, The Alternative Prince: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it mattersAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst

|genre=Business and FinanceBiography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''SelectedCharles, The Alternative Prince''critically assesses the Prince' is based on s opinions, beliefs and aims against the psychology background of leadershipthe scientific evidence. Some There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of us may ask treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the perfectly reasonable question 'Does it matter reputation of a man who leads and who follows?' Wellis proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, apparently it not only matters but it matters greatlylogical reasoning to his ambitions. And the co}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs' seems to have become a catch-authors go all word to great lengths cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to tell us whymake you ill. The useful prologue informs us that In the whole area of leadership can first book in what looks to be traced back in timea very promising new series, by no less than several million yearsOUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Vugt We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and Ahuja explain that what they thought caused them and how the rather innocent (and even thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a bit airy-fairy to some) word regular box headed 'leaderspeak like a scientist' is evolved from various academic disciplines. Including which explains some of the more obvious psychologytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, there is also biology fungi, protists and viruses – and anthropology in the mix. Heady stuff. And yes, I did want to read onhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillipsgareth_steel|title=On BalanceNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=Essential for I don't often begin my reviews with a tightrope walker, prized as an intellectual objective, balance is generally considered something warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to which we can aspirebe appropriate. We praise someone who makes Stories of a balanced decision, we envy people who vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''good work/life balanceAll Creatures' we offer an opinion 'on balancelacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he' s written it to demonstrate that we have considered various arguments inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and optionseating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geoffrey Miller0241480442|title=Must-HaveHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We BuyVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=If no one can tell Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the differenceway in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, why shell out $30 000 I am not a vegan. It worked for a real Rolex when while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a 'mere' $1200 will get perfect storm of those events which you a virtually identical replica? Why do luxury manufacturers such as BMW spend money advertising in mass media whose typical readership most likely wonhope don't ever be able occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to afford their products?animal-based protein. And It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just why is as good as anything plundered from the ''i'' animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in iPod so important?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437929</amazonuk>a few spare moments.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce Bueno de MesquitaDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future with Game TheoryA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=As Alzheimer's is a rather mediocre recreational poker player disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I've often have been intrigued directly affected by game theorythis cruel disease, as have many. The academic discipline used by politicos during Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the chilliest days of the Cold War has been utilised by the more mathematically minded players on the professional circuit to improve profitabilityelements. Rather than poker, author It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and politics professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory models to forecast political, economic and international security scenarios your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in Prediction he shares some of his secrets''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099531844</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Dee0099551063|title=The Running SkyWisdom of Psychopaths: A Bird-Watching LifeLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=Tim Dee may already be known to you as a distinguished critic and adjudicator of contemporary poetry, or for producing BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. So it's hardly surprising that my first impression of his birdwatching memoir, ''The Running Sky'' is of poetic exactitude transferred to another genre. But I remain dazzled by the sustained quality of his writing over 80,000 words. Opened at any page, paragraphs of graceful prose enclose figurative language capturing the very essence of flight (hence the title, from a Philip Larkin poem). To Dee, flight is the nub of a bird's independence. He describes and wonders poetically – be it the collective sweep of flock formations, the mysteries of migration, or individual observations of nightjars, carrion crows or peregrines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516497</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Paul Bloom|title=How Pleasure WorksUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The New Science statement has lost a little of Why We Like What We Like|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=How much would you pay for a jumper that used to belong its shock value but it does help us to Brad Pitt? What understand more about if I had it dry cleaned for you first? Chances are, if you were considering the first offer, you've just been put off somewhatnature of psychopathy. But why? The jumper hasn It't changeds too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, after all. Do you honestly and rationallyJeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, believe that dry cleaning would destroy some of Brad's 'essence'the real-life Hannibal Lecter, thus making but the item less valuable?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847921434</amazonuk>truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Farndon1849767343|title=Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge QuestionsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=My history The title and format of interviews with Oxbridge colleges forms a very short dialogue. Me, this book might lead you to university admissions representative, think that it's either about responsibility - or it'You don’t actually do media studies per se, do you?'' He, ''No – our graduates run s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the medianumbers journey. It isn't: it' Had I got s a lot further, and sat in front hymn of a potential tutor, I would have faced a question designed praise to baffle, provoke, bewilder – or to inspire a flight of intuitive intelligencemaths. Thus It's about why maths is the media-running wheat separated from the media-consuming chaffso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. And thus is this book given its basis – sixty of the more remarkable questions, answered as our erudite author might have wished to answer them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831132X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa SandersB08B39QNRH|title=DiagnosisThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Fans of ‘’House, M.D.’’ may recognise the name of Lisa Sanders. She’s the technical advisor to the TV show as well as being the writer of the ‘’Diagnosis’’ column in the New York Times. Many of the stories which appear in the column are recounted in this book, which is a look at the way in which doctors reach a diagnosis and how the method has changed (or not) over the years. I’m not a fan of the hospital dramas which seem to be a major feature of the TV schedules, but I was fascinated by what is, essentially, a series of medical detective stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311338</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stefan Klein|title=Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=This excellent combination of science history and biography starts with the most populist and some of the most awkwardly scientific. Basically it throws modern-day science at the Mona Lisa, which you might think 'Society is a little unfair – can she cope with being analysed, and the neuroscience we now know used in interpreting her? Of course she can – she’s the world’s best-known masterpiece of Italian art, and she’s survived much worse. Klein’s approach fully works, when we see also the science da Vinci did know and that he worked based on himself, which all helps us know partly why the truths of La Gioconda are still unknowable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818256</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Parsons|title=30-Second Theories|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=Take fifty of science's most thought-provoking theories, and try to explain each in thirty seconds or one page. It's all here, from Schrodinger's cat, to cosmic topology, via the Gaia hypothesis and chaos theory.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831129X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Griffiths|title=The Lotus Quest|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. I know this because his brief biog in the front of The Lotus Quest tells me so; just as it tells me that he is speech but civilisation requires the editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening written word'the largest work on horticulture ever published'. His prior works list includes five other plant book credits, three of them for the RHS. I shall take all of this on trust, since attempts to find out more about the author and his background through the usual internet search mechanisms has failed miserably. He remains as elusive as the sacred flower that is the subject of this latest work: the lotus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595100X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and Stuff|rating=5|genre=ChildrenI came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Non-Fiction|summary=Ever wanted Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this is as 'interesting': I prefer the book for you. If youword 'painful're interested but I have an interest in [http://wwwthe way that hands work.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes years seemed liked excellent background reading and stuff]so it proved, then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister with the book in being as much about the doctors treating the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full of all sufferers and the information you'd want to know. It's all written with changing medical attitudes as the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-readproblem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Bellos1776572858|title=Alex's Adventures In NumberlandHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Maths is a wonderful thingIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. ...Wait, don My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't run awayd get me a book about it. It really is. The way numbers interact with each other, A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the way counting systems developed, how mathematical breakthroughs are coming from the world of crochetbasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and how people can mentally calculate the 13th root of a 200 digit number in almost less time than I was told that it takes to read wouldn't be discussed any further as it out loud''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. There I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''s all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff going on in Numberland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597162</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ForteyDanny Dorling|title=The Hidden LandscapeSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=The purpose We are living in a time of this book rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to explore the connection between the landscape worry and the geology underlying it, which in one of his many vivid similes Fortey compares the surface personality with the workings current state of what we're doing in the unconscious mind beneathworld we have much to be worried about. He starts by describing a journey he once made from Paddington Station to Haverford West However, a market town in Pembrokeshire over the next three-hundred-and with -some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it a passage back into the plutonic depths of geological aeonssets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, indicated by the large 60cm monster trilobites or in some cases that have been found in we're worrying about the Cambrian rocks near St David'swrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. Fortey describes In fact, the magnificence rate of the Cathedral constructed from the local purple sandstone change in many things is slowing down and mottled with moisture-loving lichens. He contrasts this with the anonymous character direction of a nearby brightly-coloured service station, anonymous and synthetic, an invader cheaply built and out of contextchange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847920713</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra HorowitzLangford_Emily|title=Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know|rating=5|genre=Pets|summary=I've long been aware that our two dogs have methods of communication which are far more subtle than anything a mere human can muster. They sense exactly how we are feeling – a slight change in the atmosphere and they will be alert. The reactions to a frown or a smile, laughter or tears are all different and they're capable of communicating with us in ways which have no need of words. For a while I thought it was our dogs who were special (well, ''obviously'' they are…) but I've noticed other dogs communicating with each other and with humans and the more that I see the more that I wonder why they are referred to as 'dumb animalsEmily'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Numbers|author=Philip Ball|title=The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it Joss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Emily found words ''useful''We need to talk about music, but it is hardcounting was what she loved best. Very few people Obviously, you can do it.count anything and there' So says Philip Ball after 400 pages of talking about music. Very few readers who make it that s no limit to how far will disagree with his conclusionyou can go, but most will have gained some enlightenment then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about how music works odd and why we enjoy iteven numbers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920888</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Derrick Niederman|title=Number Freak Then she began counting in threes: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that definitely does what it says on half of the tin. Our author has list were even numbers, but the capacity to grab each number between one other half was odd and two hundred, and wring it for all its worth - all the special status it might have was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in our culture threes which she called ''threeven''. (more easy with seven thanActually, say, 187), all this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the special properties it might possess (perfect, triangular, prime), and odd numbers but sound as many other things mathematicians and so on would find though they ought to be a subset of interest. Luckily there is enough here to make the book even numbers, but it all worked out well worth a browse for us who would not deem themselves number buffswhen I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kees van Deemter1910593508|title=Not Exactly - In Praise Of VaguenessApollo|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summaryauthor=How warm is a warm day? Or rather, given the weather at the moment, how chilly is a chilly day? Is it better to know I want a small helping of peas, or to know that I want 82 peas? There are times when vagueness is more useful than being specific. Kees van Deemter makes this point, sharing many examples from a number of fields, including maths, philosophyMatt Fitch, linguistics Chris Baker and AI.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199545901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Druin Burch|title=Taking the MedicineMike Collins

|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=In 1898, Burch points out that This incredible graphic novel is a new drug was developed love letter to the Moon landings and marketed the passion for the treatment of tuberculosis subject drips off every Apollo by Bayer & CoMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. TB This is such an ancient enemy a story we know well and because of man this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that there is apparently evidence of an earlier strain we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to be found in Egyptian mummiesthe book. The German firm had discovered If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a chemical film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that seemed to work well, there are scenes missing and patients and indeed their own staff, who were tested seemed to respond well - it was named Heroin - and its addictive effects were at first missedthat dialogue has been trimmed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951506</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roger Scruton|title=I Drink Therefore I Am|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Roger Scruton This is a conservative philosopher and composer, best known for his work on philosophy and music, but who shares Plato's belief graphic novel that 'nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the gods to man' and in this book seeks to combine his two interests of philosophy could easily have been three times as long and the fruits of the vinestill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Laidler1999308719|title=AnimalsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=For many years now I''Animals'' is described as a visual guide ve (half) joked that I intended to the animal kingdomlive forever and that so far, but please don't think of it as a picture book as it's far more than thatwas working out OK. DonTime has passed though and although I't think m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of it as my age there were a coffee table book either – despite the fact that its size – midway between A2 and A3 – might tempt you to think that wayfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It's was time to look for a journey through new approach and as so often happens, the complex diversity of reviewing gods brought me the animal kingdom based on sound scientific principlesbook I needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916004X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Butterworth|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There aren 't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all knowLive Forever Manual: Science, too, that ethics and companies behind the worldnew anti-ageing treatments's population growth is on a collision course with ' seemed like the dwindling of its resources. The world's going answer to my problems - only you get hotter, its weather so much more extremethan just 101 tips. Fossil fuels are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Wrangham 1847941834|title=Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Atomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Humans I've said this before but there are cooking apes. According to Richard Wranghamsome books that you seek out, mastery of fire some books that you stumble across and cooking of the food some books that resulted from it was at the root of human evolutionary development and ultimate success. Various factors have been proposed as the crucial stimulus which led to the appearance of the first recognisably human creatures: leaving aside divine intervention (be it from Goddrop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, extra-terrestrials or future humans travelling right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in time), the candidates for what made our ancestral apes stand straighter and start growing brains range from socialised hunting to chattering about kinship to eating seafoodlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682851</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra BruceHoneyborne BlueII|title=2012: Science or Superstition|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The fuss about 2012 has not started just recently. The first book to feature the story was from a Yale professor, in 1966. We've also had prog rock bands named after Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth. But as the crunch date of December 21st, 2012 - the winter solstice that year - nears, it's becoming a very big story indeed. Even though it sounds absurd - the end of a 5,125-year long cycle of the Maya calendar, which started on August 13th, 3114BCE - or was judged to start then, when they came across this concept a couple of thousand years into that period. Surely they couldn't predict the future from their 'primitive' state with such accuracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934708283</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlue Planet II|author=Stephen Baker|title=They've Got Your NumberJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=If you are in You may well remember when the slightest bit paranoid, worry that sticking of a number '2'Big Brother'' is always watching or like to believe after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that you are not a number, but a free man (or woman), then this may not be the book for you, as first film had been so good it will do nothing was fully justified to dispel any of those worrieshave something more. IfThat has hardly been proven correct, on but it has until recently almost been confined to the other hand, cinema - you think 'the mathematical modelling barely got a TV series worthy of humanity' sounds like one of the sexiest things evera numbered sequel, and are chomping at never in the bit to learn more world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about it, then you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to say.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Aaron Carroll , Alaska (and Dr Rachel Vreeman|title=Donboy aren't Swallow Your Gum|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary='''BANG'''there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. That's But some nature programmes do have the sound of copious urban myths being shot down. '''BANG'''. That's prestige, the sound of energy and the old wives slamming heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the doormaking, as their tales get revealed as baseless. '''CLICK'''. Thatthe BBC's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as they get closed downBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping. All noises come due to this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith 1783099593|title=Breakfast with SocratesSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In ''Breakfast with Socrates'Speaking Up'has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, subtitled A Philosophy of Everyday Lifereligion, former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith takes various elements of a 'typical' day the workplace and provides insight into what personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an eclectic collection encyclopedic body of thinkers might have research from the mid-twentieth century to offer to make these mundane routines more interestingthe present day. After allReading it, as Socrates declared 'we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the unexamined life is not worth living'Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682371</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James HannamCampbell_Astra|title=God's PhilosophersAd Astra: How An illustrated guide to leaving the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Scienceplanet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary=Everybody knows that So… you want to leave the Medieval people thought planet? Before you do you'd better study the world whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was flat and a handy guide that could condense it wasn't until Columbus proved otherwise that they found out it was a sphere. Everybody knows that the inquisition burned people at the stake all down for their scientific ideas and that Copernicus lived in perpetual fear of persecutionyou. Everyone knows that the Pope banned human dissection and Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the number zero, and everybody is wrongplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310706</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerAdrian_Sock|title=The Comic Strip History of Space|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us to a [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of the World]], and have now turned their attention to space. They explain to children everything from the origins of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth about planets, right up to current space missions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Ian Stewart|title=Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical TreasuresKim Adrian|rating=43.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Ian Stewart has been collecting mathematical curiosities, puzzles and stories since he was 14. He published his ''Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities'' in 2008, and hot on its success, he's sharing this second volume with us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=How To Make A Tornado|rating=4

|summary=Another year, another must-read The subject of this book from the New Scientist. We've has been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|polar bears]]around for several millennia, [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick Oyet my partner'Hare|hamsters]]s daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. Now itIt's time something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to turn our attention think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to how well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to make fund his desire of having a tornadofresh pair every single day. On which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the yearshumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva HoffmanGermano_Eye|title=Time Eye Chart (Big IdeasObject Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=It''Time'' is one s happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of ''Big Ideas'' series of books aiming certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to revisit prove the greatest notions and concepts and correction needed to my vision to provide them make me see with a modern summary the intended clarity and understandingnormality. The series strives I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to cause people to think check for diabetes and debateother problems, I've had different tests to re-evaluate check the pressure inside my eye, and doubt. Another 'I'Big Ideas'' books deal ve come away with topics such as 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 I'Democracy've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, ''Identity'' and the cultural impact it''Bodies''s had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680387</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawBall_Wonders|title=Why Does E Equal mc Squared?Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=4.5

|summary=Why does E=mc² and why should we care? Two questions that every intelligent person should be able to answerLike many people of a ''certain age, but I'll bet that 95% couldn't. Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw explain this most famous I have fond memories of equations tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the layperson in such a way that they wonvirtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.'t need anything more complicated than Pythagoras' theorem to understand itAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306817586</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tadg FarringtonYong_Contain|title=The Average Life I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of the Average Personlife|author=Ed Yong

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