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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Popular scienceCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4__NOTOC__|genre=Biography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil deGrasse Tyson0192779230|title=Space ChroniclesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Facing the Ultimate FrontierThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=A year or so ago there was 'Germs' seems to have become a big hoopla about being able catch-all word to see cover anything unpleasant which has the International Space Station pass overhead where I live, so I dutifully clambered on to the roof. And indeed it was actually very warming potential to know I was seeing something manmade, from 250 miles awaymake you ill. As for In the chance first book in what looks to see it, its speed of 17be a very promising new series,000mph means it orbits the planet every 92 OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a half minutesclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. It gets We get an informed look at how people originally thought aboutdiseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. But The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the warmth trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of seeing ita vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as well as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the achievements book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that led up to it, and the politics of NASAhe's five decades - written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some of the Newtonian physics involved in uncomfortable and distressing issues but it - doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are all in this volumeoccasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393082105</amazonuk>

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

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

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

|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I donAlzheimer't think s is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I've ever before picked up have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a book, looked at statue over time affected the title elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and being intrigued not by your dignity. This is what was suggested but by how anyone could think differentlymakes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. 'Dogs Never Lie About Love' Daniel Gibbs is a statement of the obvious to me. I've lived neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and around dogs for most of has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretence. I've never met a dog I couldnBrain't trust: if it doesn't like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounter.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Damasio0099551063|title=Self Comes to MindThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Constructing the Conscious Brain|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=What makes us, us? How is awareness of one's own being created in the human mind? What makes ''me'' who got up this morning ''me'' that went to bed last night, and the same ''me'' that got up on most mornings in the preceding forty-odd years? How is it that we see, remember and understand things, other humans and the world Lessons in general? And who is doing the understanding? How is it that we are conscious of our own experienceslife from Saints, Spies and how is it that we are conscious of ourselves being conscious?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099498022</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSerial Killers|author=John D Barrow|title=The Book Of UniversesDr Kevin Dutton

|summary=The idea of a 'multiverse' - multiple universes existing alongside each other - is something science fiction and fantasy fans are fairly au fait with'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. Parallel realities in which you made a different decision at a pivotal moment and, as a consequence, have evolved in entirely different ways, have been fodder for authors, scriptwriters and 'what if' musings for some time, but recently, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Nicholas Mee|title=Higgs Force|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Nicholas MeeUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, was a Senior Wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge and having taken his PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics by submitting his thesis on ''Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Geometry'even shocked many readers: now they', he is uniquely qualified to explain the mysteries of the Higgs forcere probably convinced that they knew it all along. He is also The statement has lost a fellow little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the Royal Astronomical Societynature of psychopathy. Whereas other texts rapidly resort It's too easy to references to erudite constructs like 'non-zero expectation values'associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, 'zz Dibosons' and 'Bose-Einstein statistics'Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, Dr Mee provides an accurate account of the Geneva experiments with the Large Hadron Colliderreal-life Hannibal Lecter, provides his readers with some insight into but the character of eminent physicists, and furnishes truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a lucid account of current theories. Included is an exposition of the discovery of elements by Sir Humphry Davy to recent experiments to discover Peter Higg's elusive particlegood thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718892755</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart1849767343|title=17 Equations That Changed The World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=''17 Equations That Changed the World'' takes us through the history of mathematics, from Pythagoras through Einstein's theory of relativy and chaos theory. It highlights the most influently equations, clearly explains them, and establishes the full ranges of breakthroughs they led to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)|title=Queen of the SunMiguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years The title and read many books about the subject, all format of the 'how this book might lead you to..think that it' s either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the science of… varietynumbers journey. But this book is a revelation as it genuinely tries to celebrate bees, capturing the real It isn'feelt: it' of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much sooner. For Siegel and Betz have collected s a series hymn of short articles, poems and essays not about the technique and science of the craft, but about the purpose and 'soul' behind itpraise to maths.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Skene|title=Escape from Bubbleworld|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the thought of another book assaulting population growth, western greed and reckless exploitation of the environment, take time to read the first chapter of Keith Skene It's 'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this about why maths is as entertaining so wonderful and amusing book as how you are likely to read on the subject, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science and fascinating exploration of what turns out to be less certain certainties. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the non-scientific readingmeet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, 've said this before but on the Big Bang scale I'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. I was weaned on ''Star Trek '', chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 exam, and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same time, there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but I've never seen a ''Batman'' filmsome books that you seek out, never some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read a comic bookthem, like, never quite understood what all the right now! ''Star WarsAtomic Habits'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi is a religion, then this is the book that can fill me in one the stories, the parables, the rules, as it were, of geekdom. I had to have itlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year has passed, and once again we're treated to another offering from New Scientist's Last Word column. We've been here before, with [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|Penguins]], [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]], [[How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare|Elephants]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|Hamsters]]. Now it's time for the orangutan to find out why he's orange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Crystal|title=The Story Of English In 100 Words|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Crystal is a god when it comes to language. I’ve known that since I was quoting him during English A Level, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask 'Why?' and you need an answer other than 'Because'. This is his new book, but you don’t need a degree in linguistics to find it fascinating, and in addition to the intriguing revelations and chummy writing style, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas present.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Niall McCrae|title=The Moon and Madness|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=A book entitled ''The Moon and Madness'' has the potential to be a pile of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokum, and there is not a whiff of New Age hanging over it. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds of lunatics in the asylum howling at the full moon. Of course, the very word 'lunatic' has its origins in the moon. McCrae tries to separate myth and fact in this fascinating book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John L LockeHoneyborne BlueII|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Locke's subtitle ''Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another self-help ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlue Planet II|author=Steven Connor|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=...In which our author considers the smaller, less noticeable items in our lives. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things are things that we allow James Honeyborne and expect to do things back to us. Magical things all do more, and mean more than they might be supposed to." Principally these are the little flotsam that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our person, and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Brooks|title=Free RadicalsMark Brownlow

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

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

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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainCampbell_Astra|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science book, part trivia, each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget, or when reading from cover to cover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewplanet|author=Jonah Lehrer|title=Proust Was a NeuroscientistDallas Campbell|rating=45

|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivion'. This fully accords with d better study the discoveries whole history of modern brain science. Proust in his famous novel, 'In Search of Lost Time' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientists, such as Rachel Hertz, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly human space flight to get up to the hippocampusspeed. Thus the taste of That could take a petit madeleine evokes while… if only there was a rediscovery by Proust of Combray and a flow of associations - handy guide that could condense it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centredall down for you. Lehrer in ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves an intriguing argument about the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries and the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched Enter Dallas Campbell with Nobel Prize-winning, [[this book:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], has a taste for philosophy; Lehrer intends to heal the rift between what C.P.Snow termed the 'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect An illustrated guide to leaving the truths and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and paintersplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lister-KayeAdrian_Sock|title=At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly about, and one with which I must confess to having a love/hate relationship! I loved the detailed observation, the sharing of knowledge that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study of the countryside. He delights in and pays as much attention to the structure of a spider's web as to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Ian Stewart|title=Mathematics of LifeKim Adrian

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

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

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

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

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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland SmithYong_Contain|title=Driving with PlatoI Contain Multitudes: The Meaning of Life's Milestones|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Driving with Plato'' is a companion book to [[Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with Socrates]], in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day the microbes within us and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interesting. Here, in the company of a similarly eclectic range grander view of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school and riding a bike, to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a mid-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age and death. Montaigne said that to philosophise was to learn how to die, and here Roland Smith ensures that we think about each stage leading up to that moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Stevenson|title=An Optimist's Tour of the FutureEd Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and things we think would soon be living inkill us may save us. In terms of technological advancement we're not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time for a revised view of what is Welcome to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits modern study of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuffmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde|title=Sleights of Mind|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I have a passing interest in both magic and neuroscience. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladies, but I was also very keen Move on to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and as a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed the [http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ Illusion of the Year contest[Newest Reference Reviews]]. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn and...) and Johnny Thompson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowing: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goes, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}