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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clancy Martin1787333175|title= Love and Lies: And Why You CanDon't Have One Without the Otherto be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Lying 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 wrong and the last people you would lie Going to willingly are Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the ones you love workings of the most – or so you would like to thinkNHS, humour and autobiography. In ''Love and Lies: And Why You CanDon't Have One Without the Otherto be Mad...'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and serial groom, sets out on the work of a mission psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to disprove be looking for humour in this setting but the central beliefs we hold laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with respect to, no more empathy and no less than, our own moralityunderstanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Wulf1788360702|title=Charles, The Invention of NatureAlternative Prince: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4.5

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769For 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 younger brother 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 Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but man who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguistproud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The family was wellInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs' seems tohave become a catch-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her all word to cover anything unpleasant which would fund Alexander's first explorationshas the potential to make you ill. His In the first travels would book in what looks to be in Europe where he met a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and was influenced by accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people such as Joseph Banks, President of originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cookthinking has developed over time. But it was his travels in Latin America The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which would lay explains some of the foundations for his lifetrickiest concepts and you's workll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordeygareth_steel|title=The HuntNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too I don't often concentrate on the death and violence, or how begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' itseems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's all about the capture life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and killing of one animal by another. SheSmall''s long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the heat without munching on companion volume you've been looking for. As a passing wildebeestTV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV contentlacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I doubt she will be tuning in agree with him. He says that he's written it to the series this book accompaniesinform and provoke thought, even if the volume very quickly testifies that particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn's not all about the capture – often the chase can t lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be just as thrilling, best choosing between reading and the result for the intended victim is favourableeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kima Cargill0241480442|title= Healthy Vegan The Psychology of OvereatingCookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceCookery|summary= As Emotionally, I am a nationvegan. Mentally, we are not the same as we used I am a vegan. I read [[How to be. We eat more, both as Love Animals in more often a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and as was appalled by the way in more of a serving size. And which we eat worsetreat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Processed foods. Sugary drinks. It’s Practically, I am not really newsa vegan. As It worked for a result, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure is higher, and our sugar levels are whooooshwhile apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. But it’s not just about It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food. This book takes an in depth and incredibly interesting look at our lives that tastes just as good as a whole, to show how anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the modern culture ease of consumerism shows up being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in every part of our day to day living and explains, to quite a significant degree, why many of us are overeating and why it is so hard to stopfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472581075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marianne TaylorDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= I Used To Know That: General ScienceA Tattoo on my Brain|rating= 43.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= This book got off to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one of Alzheimer'my' sciences without s is a nod to any disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the other '-ologies' (or ''pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at school)elements. Marketed It seems as ''stuff if nature wants that final victory over you forgot from schooland your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs'', this memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a book from the same series that neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has already spawned [[I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]], [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] and [[I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among othersdocumented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Levy0099551063|title=Why We Do the Things We DoThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Psychology Lessons in a Nutshelllife from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=4.5

|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 is in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic bookslast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edzard ErnstHoneyborne BlueII|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Finding TroubleMark Brownlow

|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after You may well remember when the end sticking of World War II and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he a number '2' after a film title was born as well as an insatiable curiosity suggesting something of prestige - with that the two not being entirely entirely unconnectedfirst film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to his stepthe cinema -father about the death you barely got a TV series worthy of six million Jews a numbered sequel, and never in the course world of the war provednon-fiction. In his teens he wasnIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't determined to become there are a doctor - he had a hankering lot of those these days) and wants to be a musician make another, why she just makes another - despite nothing would justify the fact that it was numeral. But some nature programmes do have the family businessprestige, so to speak, but came round to the idea energy and practiced the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the universitymaking, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=New Scientist1783099593|title=Question Everything: 132 science questions - and their unexpected answersSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating=4.5

|summary=For years now the 'Speaking Up'New Scientist'' magazine has had a column whereby people submit questions they want the answer to, fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and it's up to correspondents from all walks shapes our notions of life to submit the answer and explain the solutiongender. It's nothing new – the Guardian had it for yearslooks at our use of language in media, then the Daily Mail probably had Britain's most popular varianteducation, what with it being dailyreligion, but none were purely science-based such as that under perusal. It's a simple format for a book – not only does it create a fun kick-back at the close of an at-times hard-going science read, it generates a book full of fun workplace and intriguing Q&As almost every yearpersonal relationships. Chances are that, by relying Author Allyson Jule calls on the interests an encyclopedic body of their audience, research from the editors have allowed themselves mid-twentieth century to publish books the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that will appeal to many people who have never looked at their weekly edition – certainly they have has ever been incredibly popular, said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and massively boosted the magazine's public recognition. And this volume will not be any differentKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251649</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfDallas Campbell|rating=45

|summary=WeSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think d better study the whole history of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people human space flight to back that reason get up with scientific datato speed. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that That could provoke take a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere while… if only there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets was a handy guide that could turn our world upside condense it all down at the blink of an eyefor you. Perhaps then you better read Enter Dallas Campbell with this book first – for it may well turn out : An illustrated guide to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>leaving the planet.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical MysteriesSock (Object Lessons)|author=Ian StewartKim Adrian

|summary=AhThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, those pesky number thingsor them. Not just [[RogersonIt's Book something I use for about 200 days of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the Seven Wonders opposite end of the World by Barnaby Rogerson|Rogerson's Book scale to well-known mass-murderer of Numbers: The culture women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of numbers from 1001 Nights to having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the Seven Wonders amount of the World]] and how them we have related create every year could stack to certain ones, but how they all relate to each other, the freaking moon and have provided mathematical scientists with thousands upon thousands of hours of thinking timemore. Just one problem in these pages has ended with not so much Some idiots buy more than six pairs a checkable proofyear, but a third more data again than the entire Wikipedia projectapparently, which is plain stupid. Within this book are numbers far too big I'm talking, as you would not even manage to write them out given the entire lifespan can tell, of the universe (and ones bigger than that) and problems wherein one must define as many integers as possible using merely 1s and mathematical symbolshumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Germano_Eye|title=The Edge of the SkyEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Roberto TrottaWilliam Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''. Apparently thatIt's advice happened to budding journalists me, and writerslike as not it has or will happen to you, and too. I do try to follow mean the English translation receipt of itcertain little numerical results, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing make me see with the dictum is Roberto Trottaintended clarity and normality. This book is his survey I've had that gizmo that photos the back of current astrophysics my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and cosmological scienceI've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but one certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that has diminish in size, to convey everything it intends prove to by using only the most common thousand words of relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the English language. So there is no Big Bang as suchscientific progress that led to it, planets have the changes other people made to be called Crazy Stars – it, and the cultural impact it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand eitherhad are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithJohnny Ball

|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute Like many people of a ''certain age,'' I have found fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the answer to one virtues of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace it. I was delighted then, when maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''Inventions in 30 Secondsfun.'' arrived for me to reviewAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, as I saw it as a dose his latest book proves that he has lost none of much-needed respite from my endless researchhis passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Anna ClaybourneEd Yong

|summary=Our body The world you know is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneouslylie. Even when we are sleeping, our body There is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and filtering wastehealth are all far more complex than we thought. When Things designed to save us may kill us and things we are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damagethink would kill us may save us. When we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works Welcome to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body worksmodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>

Heralding from the discipline of neuroscience, Greenfield’s case, in short, is that the brain may be changing to meet the demands of the digital twenty-first century. Online mass-player games, digitally equipped classrooms, electronic readers and search-engines each challenge how the mind has traditionally socialised and learned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery|author=George Johnson|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=George Johnson, a popular science writer more comfortable in the fields of physics and cosmology, started his journey into cancer when his wife, Nancy, was diagnosed with a rare uterine variety. He took it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?), but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it has been with us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence|author=Ben Ambridge|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Psy-Q'' is a fun and interactive slice of 'Pop-Science' which delves into various psychology topics, with the aim of entertaining and enlightening the reader and debunking a few myths along the way. Most of the chapters are only a couple of pages long and include quizzes, personality profiles, experiments, optical illusions and the odd cheesy joke thrown in for good measure. The result is a readable, accessible and un-putdownable book that I managed to devour in an entire afternoon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise|author=Michael Brooks|rating=5|genre=Popular Science |summary=Eleven Discoveries are introduced and explored in Michael Brooks’ At the Edge of Uncertainty, spanning all from the expansion of epigenetics, the possibility of creating a hypercomputer, and the unveiling of the true nature of the universe. Some of the hypotheses currently being investigated by our contemporary scientific community are baffling enough in themselves: Is our universe a hologram of an extra-dimensional universe? Are the mechanisms governing photosynthesis and human olfaction in fact one and the same? Just how well-established are animal personalities and cultures, if such exist? Is a human ‘will to live’ something which can be attributed to discernible biological responses and systems? Is time an illusion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Earth in 30 Seconds|author=Anita Ganeri|rating=4|genre=children's Non-Fiction|summary=As a former cataloguer of children’s books there are names that are synonymous with juvenile non-fiction, in my time the author Anita Ganeri has graced my work table 112 times. She is a prolific author and her legacy continues in the form of ‘Earth in 30 Seconds’, part of a series of books for 7-11 year olds that explore scientific principles in easy bite size pieces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Lazarus Effect|author=Sam Parnia|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=As part of my job, I assess junior doctors who want to specialise in General Practice at the end of their two foundation years, and this assessment takes the form of role plays where they play a doctor and respond to cues from an actor playing a patient/relative/staff member while I take notes and score them against competencies. 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 Move on what I was assessing (communication skills) but it stuck with me and I still tell it as a tale from time to time, along with the story of the patient who tripped and fell on a, erm, personal massage device, had to have it surgically removed…and then asked 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 about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]