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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kima Cargill1787333175|title= The Psychology of OvereatingYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= As I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a nationglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, we are not humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same as we used elements but moved from physical problems to be. We eat more, both as in more often mental illness and as in more the work of a serving sizepsychiatrist. And we eat worse I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. Processed foods}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. Sugary drinks ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. It’s not really news. As 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 result, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure man who is higherproud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, and our sugar levels are whooooshlogical reasoning to his ambitions. But it’s not just about }}{{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-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the foodpotential to make you ill. This In the first book takes an in depth what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and incredibly interesting accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at our lives as a whole, to show how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the modern culture thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of consumerism shows up in every part of our day to day living the trickiest concepts and explainsyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, to quite a significant degreefungi, why many of us are overeating protists and viruses – and why it is so hard to stophow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472581075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Marianne Taylorgareth_steel|title= I Used To Know That: General ScienceNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating= 4|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= This book got off to the right start in I don't often begin my mind because reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it comes in 3 key sections, each for one seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''myAll Creatures Great and Small' sciences without a nod to any of the other '-ologiesbut ' (or 'Never Work With Animals'pseudo sciences'is definitely not the companion volume you' as they were often called at school)ve been looking for. Marketed as As a TV show the author would argue that ''stuff you forgot from schoolAll Creatures''lacked realism, this as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is a book from the same series not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that has already spawned [[I Used he's written it to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]]inform and provoke thought, [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] 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 [[I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among otherseating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Levy0241480442|title=Why We Do the Things We DoHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Psychology in a NutshellVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|summary=Chalk and cheese; your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from '' Until the other, whether through colour and crumbliness, or physical form, or from being studies events of the mind. The only thing is6 January 2021 that might have surprised, one pair is alone. Your two hands formed at the same time, whereas chalk is the older, and philosophy predates psychologyeven shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The two were the same thing until recently, and we can perhaps point at statement has lost a William James as little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the father nature of the splitpsychopathy. I make this point because when I reviewed this volumeIt's [[Why We Think too easy to associate psychopathy with the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or history evident. Here, howeverRobert Maudsley, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas of idiocy-cumreal-possession in our early historylife Hannibal Lecter, through phrenology and mesmerism to but the birth of psychology. The fact truth is that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms as the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remainhaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Stephen1849767343|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a NutshellCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Way back when, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's hard to believe sometimes, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going to do a philosophy Abasic 1-level. No, I said – there was no point in studying something nobody can agree about. The introduction to this 2-3 book raises much for those just starting out on the same point – the solution to philosophical questions and study is only ever going to be more questionsnumbers journey. It says that Kant thought the study of thought, isn't: it'or, more precisely, how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed studys a hymn of praise to maths. Still, study it many people do do – It's about why maths is so wonderful and probably a far greater number would wish to read around it and find out what it might be like to sound as if how you have studied meet it – hence books like thisin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will CohuB08B39QNRH|title=Out The Curious History of the WoodsWriter's Cramp: the armchair guide to treesSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Most people probably accept trees as, well, ''treesSociety is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. They I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp're there and they're greenby a rather strange route. Some are lighter, some darker. Some are taller and other go for width, but I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. 'interesting': I knew that prefer the big tree at the bottom of next doorword 'painful's garden is a sycamore, but only because I heard someone say 'have an interest in the way that sycamore is going to cause problems with hands work. An exploration of the drains history of a problem which has defeated some of the flats at the back'. I was OK on white horse chestnuts toobest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, but only when with the kids were collecting conkers, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's book landed on my desk being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and I opened it expecting to find lots of pictures with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberchanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia Cheng1776572858|title=Cakes, Custard How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsDon Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary= Eugenia Cheng is a professor of maths It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a lover of cakebook about it. If you’re wondering how those two things could ever intersect, it’s quite easy. And the result, the middle A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Venn diagrambasics, if you will, is this book in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which makes maths funnice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, meaningful and relatively easy to digestbut was little ''wiser''. Much like her recipes Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsDanny Dorling|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsSlowdown|rating=54|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Oceans We are living in 30 Seconds a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy Pressnormal, which aims natural and probably good for us. We are designed to give an informative worry and entertaining overview with the current state of a given subject what we're doing in bitethe world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twohundred-and-page spreadsome pages, with a concise description on if you can follow the leftarguments, covering all of the main pointsit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, and a colourful illustration on or in some cases that we're worrying about the right hand pagewrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, complete with extra snippets of informationthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up In fact, which further condenses the main idea rate of change in many things is slowing down and the chapter direction of change will in some cases go into a single sentencereverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartLangford_Emily|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enoughEmily found words ''useful'', with a really interesting look at numbers as seen by the earliest peoplebut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, before moving on you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a brief explanation step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of natural the list were even numbers, rational numbers, negative numbers but the other half was odd and complex and prime it was this list of odd numberswhich occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as Pythagoras’s theorem, they're a subset of the Fibonacci cube, negative odd numbers, pi and quadratic equations, and other lesser known concepts such but sound as kissing though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, imaginary numbers and the winsomely-named Sausage Conjecturebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin1910593508|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as This incredible graphic novel is a psychologist love letter to the Moon landings and therapist her husband died suddenlythe passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must ''not'' doChris Baker and Mike Collins. She knew that she must not develop This is a sense story we know well and because of entitlementthis, feel resentment or succumb to self-pitythe authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using These shortcuts are the principles which she applied only downside to herself. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies to combat themthe book. But the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if If you've suffered ever read a comic book adaptation of a bereavement, film you need to grieve - it's about having will be familiar with the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengesslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1999308719|title=Wheat BellyLive Forever Manual: The effortless health Science, ethics and weightcompanies behind the new anti-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5

|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it For many years now I've (half) joked that people who are leading an active life I intended to live forever and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? that so far, it was working out OK. He Time has passed though and although I'm a simple great deal fitter and worrying answer: wheat, healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugarwere tipping my life out of balance. The problem isn't restricted It was time to weight gainlook for a new approach and as so often happens, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism toothe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. In fact - the more that you read''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the more younew anti-ageing treatments'll wonder if there's an organ in seemed like the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheatanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Dartnell1847941834|title=The KnowledgeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth I've said this before but there are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthysome books that you seek out, The ''MaddAdam'' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled to hear her some books that you stumble across and some books described as 'Science Fiction')that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! and the recent ''Station ElevenAtomic Habits'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just a small drop in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Edzard Ernst|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born is in Germany not long after the end of World War II and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he was born as well as an insatiable curiosity - with the two not being entirely entirely unconnectedlast category. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge to his step-father about the death of six million Jews in the course of the war proved. In his teens he wasn't determined to become a doctor - he had a hankering to be a musician - despite the fact that it was the family business, so to speak, but came round to the idea and practiced in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the university.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=New ScientistHoneyborne BlueII|title=Question Everything: 132 science questions - Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and their unexpected answersMark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=For years now You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2'New Scientist'' magazine has had after a column whereby people submit questions they want film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the answer to, and first film had been so good it's up was fully justified to correspondents from all walks of life to submit the answer and explain the solutionhave something more. It's nothing new – the Guardian had it for years, then the Daily Mail probably had Britain's most popular variant, what with it being dailyThat has hardly been proven correct, but none were purely science-based such as that under perusal. It's a simple format for a book – not only does it create a fun kick-back at has until recently almost been confined to the close of an atcinema -times hard-going science read, it generates you barely got a book full TV series worthy of fun a numbered sequel, and intriguing Q&As almost every year. Chances are that, by relying on never in the interests world of their audiencenon-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, the editors have allowed themselves to publish books that will appeal to many people who have never looked at their weekly edition – certainly they have been incredibly popularsay, Alaska (and massively boosted the magazineboy aren's public recognition. And this volume will not be any different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca|author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, t there is are a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, lot of those these days) and people wants to back that reason up with scientific datamake another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all But some nature programmes do have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disastersthe prestige, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists the energy and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out heft to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries|author=Ian Stewart|rating=3demand follow-ups.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=AhAnd after five years in the making, those pesky number things. Not just [[Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World by Barnaby Rogerson|RogersonBBC's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World]] and how we have related to certain ones, but how they all relate to each other, and have provided mathematical scientists with thousands upon thousands of hours of thinking time. Just one problem in these pages Blue Planet series has ended with not so much a checkable proof, but delivered a third more data again than the entire Wikipedia projectsecond helping. Within this book are numbers far too big you would not even manage to write them out given the entire lifespan of the universe (and ones bigger than that) and problems wherein one must define as many integers as possible using merely 1s and mathematical symbols.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783099593|title=The Edge of the SkySpeaking Up|author=Roberto TrottaAllyson Jule

|summary='Speaking Up'Don't use has a fivefascinating subject matter -dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. Apparently that's advice to budding journalists and writersIt looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the workplace and I do try to follow personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the English translation of it, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems mid-twentieth century to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing with the dictum is Roberto Trottapresent day. This book is his survey of current astrophysics and cosmological scienceReading it, but one we feel that she has to convey studied everything it intends to by using only the most common thousand words of the English language. So there is no Big Bang as such, planets have to be called Crazy Stars – that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Inventions in 30 Seconds|author=Dr Mike Goldsmith|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me Kardashians with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute I have found the answer to one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace it. I was delighted then, when ''Inventions in 30 Seconds'' arrived for me to review, as I saw it as a dose of much-needed respite from my endless researchequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Anna ClaybourneDallas Campbell

|summary=Our body is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneously. Even when we are sleeping, our body is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature and filtering waste. When we are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation So… you want to sort out leave the damage. When we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary Smith|title=Standard Deviations|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the years Iplanet? Before you do you've regularly been infuriated by d better study the way that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately whole history of human space flight to get up to deceive usspeed. Politicians, journalists, academics all seem to fall into the trap with alarming regularity and I That could take a while… if only there was tempted into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) handy guide that 'If you torture data long enough, could condense it will confess'. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale all down for seven years and is now a professor at Pomona College in Californiayou. His Enter Dallas Campbell with this book is aimed at : An illustrated guide to leaving the layman rather than the academic - does it hit the mark?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>planet.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Mind ChangeSock (Object Lessons)|author=Susan GreenfieldKim Adrian

|summary=The year is 2014. The digital age is upon us subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and Greenfield seeks to explore what the impact of its technologies might beyet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. Heralding from the discipline It's something I use for about 200 days of neuroscienceevery year, Greenfield’s caseat a guess (well, in short, is that the brain may be changing I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to meet think about) – which clearly puts me at the demands opposite end of the digital twentyscale to well-first century. Online known mass-player gamesmurderer of women, digitally equipped classroomsTed Bundy, electronic readers and search-engines each challenge how the mind has traditionally socialised and learnedwho was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery|author=George Johnson|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=George JohnsonOn which subject, a popular science writer more comfortable in the fields amount of physics them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and cosmologymore. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, started his journey into cancer when his wifeapparently, Nancywhich is plain stupid. I'm talking, was diagnosed with a rare uterine variety. He took it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?)you can tell, but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it has been with usof the humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Germano_Eye|title=Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligenceEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Ben AmbridgeWilliam Germano

|summary=It''Psy-Q'' is a fun s happened to me, and interactive slice like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of 'Pop-Science' which delves into various psychology topicscertain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the aim of entertaining and enlightening correction needed to my vision to make me see with the reader intended clarity and debunking a few myths along the waynormality. Most of I've had that gizmo that photos the chapters are only a couple back of pages long my eye to check for diabetes and include quizzesother problems, personality profilesI've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, experimentsand I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, optical illusions but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the odd cheesy joke thrown 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 good measureme. The result is a readableOf course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, accessible and unthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-putdownable book that I managed to devour in an entire afternoonopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=At the Edge Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by SurpriseAll Things Mathematical|author=Michael BrooksJohnny Ball

|summary=As part Like many people of my joba ''certain age, '' I assess junior doctors who want have fond memories of tuning in to specialise in General Practice at watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the end virtues of their two foundation years, maths and this assessment takes the form of role plays science; succeeding where they play a doctor our schoolteachers had failed and respond to cues from an actor playing a patient/relative/staff member while I take notes and score them against competenciesactually making these subjects ''fun. Last year one of the scenarios included explaining DNAR (do not attempt resuscitation) to a ‘relative’ and one rather memorable candidate said 'It doesn’t mean we let your mother die, but if she does die, we won’t bring her back to life the way we might another patient'. The answer did not score well on what I was assessing (communication skills) but it stuck with me and I still tell it as a tale from time to timeAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, along with the story his latest book proves that he has lost none of the patient who tripped his passion and fell on a, erm, personal massage device, had to have it surgically removed…and then asked enthusiasm for it back. It’s relevant here, though, because what that wannabe GP was saying is that he had the power to bring people back from the dead. And that’s what this book is all abouthis subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack CohenYong_Contain|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The wizards of the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworld. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (it's round for a start!) but they're still rather fond of it. However, there's a problemI Contain Multitudes: the Church of the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine to it too microbes within us and would like to claim it. A court case will decide the winner, a court case that will have a guest spectator. For Marjorie Daw (yes, like the nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just in time. What on Earth will happen next?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science grander view of invasive specieslife|author=Ken ThompsonEd Yong|rating=45

|summary=''Much of what passes for invasion biology The world you know is poorly supported hypea lie.'' So says our author, and you can easily fall into agreeing with him after reading his bookThere is no such thing as good or bad microbes. In much the same way the ''Daily Mail'' et al have their own attitudes to immigrants of the human kind, so it would appear do many people have similar notions about immigrant species. And the end results might be much more damaging.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexandra Witze Sickness and Jeff Kanipe|title=Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=I'm fascinated by volcanoes, by their uncontrollability and potential to disrupt way beyond their immediate environment and for years to come, but I've always struggled to find books which were accessible to someone without specialist knowledge - or at least health are all far more behind them complex than my very basic qualificationswe thought. Like many people my attention was drawn Things designed to Iceland when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in the spring of 2010, not because of the plight of the Icelanders save us may kill us and their livestock, but because of the disruption it caused over much of Europe, I'm afraid. I began to look at other volcanoes in Iceland - particularly Katla, reputed historically to erupt in conjunction with Eyjafjallajokull. It's likely that a full-scale eruption of Katla things we think would cause even more disruption than its little sister - and then I started to look back at other eruptions in Icelandkill us may save us. The one which few people seem Welcome to know about is Laki - which might have been one of the triggers modern study of the French Revolutionmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>