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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Morris1788360702|title= Why Icebergs FloatCharles, The Alternative Prince: Exploring Science in Everyday LifeAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4|genre= Popular ScienceBiography|summary=This unusual science textbook is based on the meetings of a science discussion group who raise questions from their everyday life. The group's resident science expertFor over forty years, Andrew Morris, does a sterling job in trying to answer some Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of their most obscure and challenging issues, which range from the physics of light and electricity to brain chemistry alternative medicine and social anthropologycomplementary therapies. Each chapter is based around a theme which grows from an observation made by a group member, such as ''what colour is the blood in the body'' and ''why is the tide so far out at BlackpoolCharles, The Alternative Prince''. This tie-in to critically assesses the reality of our lives, makes the science more interesting and somehow more useful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911307037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Brown|title=Operation Big: The Race to Stop HitlerPrince's A-Bomb|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=What, do you thinkopinions, was more feared in 1941 beliefs and 1942 than the Nazi Party? Well, a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on the list. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but I'm not so sure. A lot of the people to be at the forefront of aims against the nuclear physics background of the age were German, and the first nuclear fission was on their soilscientific evidence. Two things seemed to be needed for nuclear arms – uranium, which they procured by capturing Czechoslovakia, the location There are few instances of one its greatest source mines; his beliefs being vindicated and heavy water. That so nearly fell into Nazi hands when they invaded Norway, but what seems to have been the great majority his relentless promotion of the world's supply had only just been smuggled out. [[Fatherland by Robert Harris|Some fiction]] takes great strides to suggest in a fantasy way that if Hitler hadn't concentrated on exterminating Jews, he would treatments which have had the energy to win the war – and it must only be a short step to see his imperial expansionism as having an ulterior motive in nuclear materiel. But make no mistake, this is not fiction – these are the pure facts behind the issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664674</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Stewart|title= Calculating the Cosmos|rating= 3|genre= Popular Science|summary= In ''Calculating the Cosmos'' Ian Stewart attempts to explain how mathematics, a subject which strikes fear into the hearts of many, can be used scientific support has done considerable damage to explain the wonders reputation of the universe in a way which man who is accessible and understandable in a concise 352 pages. According to Stewart, Calculating the Cosmos takes us from the surface proud of the Earth his refusal to the outer reaches of the cosmos and from the beginning of time to the end of the universe. Does he achieve this? As the author himself states, the fun is in finding out so if you have any interest in mathematics, the universe and the complexities of space and time this may just be the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jack Challoner|title= The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life|rating= 4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I've always been mesmerised by micro-worlds and the fact that the tiniest things are made up of even smaller intricate parts. The first time I saw a picture of a human cell, I was fascinated by its complexity. ''The Cell'' is a visual marvel, filled with full-colour cell images taken by optical and electron microscopes, using phase contrast, fluorescence and darkapply evidence-field illumination to colour and differentiate the individual components. The detailed text that accompanies each image explains how cells begin, reproduce, protect themselves and come together in extraordinary ways to create complex life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402071</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover and I'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One of the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed logical reasoning to be in a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contenthis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clive Gifford|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''This is Not a Science Book'' explores the often-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring and shading in order to create a variety of at-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo0192779230|title=Build Your Own WebsiteVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Create with CodeThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=The Nanonauts want 'Germs' seems to have become a website for their band, and who better catch-all word to build it for them than cover anything unpleasant which has the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? potential to make you ill. In this handbook, created the first book in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how what looks to build be a website using HTMLvery promising new series, CSS OUP and JavascriptIsabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the bookthinking has developed over time. ThereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's also information about how to start speak like a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - scientist' which has great benefits in terms explains some of harnessing creativitythe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, learning fungi, protists and viruses – and how to code - and the benefits of teamworkwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojogareth_steel|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Nanonauts want I don't often begin my reviews with a website for their band, and who better warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children be appropriate. Stories of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and JavascriptSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. DonAs a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear lacked realism, as you read through do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the bookis not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. ThereHe says that he's also information about how written it to start a CoderDojo Nano club inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativitysome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, learning how to code - although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and the benefits of teamworkeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State0241480442|title=Get Coding!Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCookery|summary=Learning to codeEmotionally, even heading into my seventh decadeI am a vegan. Mentally, changed my life I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for today's children it's important because it opens so many doors(preferably cheap) food. It might look complicatedPractically, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imaginationI am not a vegan. I had It worked for a reasonable mastery of while apart from the skills of basic HTML in three days odd blip with the benefit regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of a personal tutor, but where to go if those events which you hope don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn''Get Coding!'' seems like 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 perfect answerease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Arabella Kurtz and J M CoetzeeDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= The Good Story: Exchanges A Tattoo on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapymy Brain|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= We live Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by storiesthis cruel disease, as have many. Novelists weave tales that may or may not reflect reality, Your memories and that we accept personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as their job: to create fictions with intriguing character plots if nature wants that draw in, surprise final victory over you and touch the reader your dignity. This is at the core of their job descriptionwhat makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. But story telling goes beyond profession: everyone, writer or not, sometimes more consciously, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress others, and constantly weave together Daniel Gibbs is a story of neurologist who we are, a tale of identitywas diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett0099551063|title=Sea JournalThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=54

|summary=Over the course of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'visits'  Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might make what happens sound a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beacheshave surprised, and some further afield, in much the same way even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that a gardener knows their own plotthey knew it all along. She's aware The statement has lost a little of minute changes, how its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the phase nature of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect to find in the strandline and where it's come frompsychopathy. She delights in every variation of the weather and sheIt's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths to up-too easy toassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the-minute sciencetruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Martin1849767343|title= Shipping Container (Object Lessons)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 34.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= This The title and format of this book is small, not even 150 pages of text, and more like 100 if might lead you exclude the index, references and acknowledgements so perhaps to think that it's unsurprising that either about responsibility - or it had to choose 's a more limited focusbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. There is plenty still It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to learn from the bookmaths. The word 'dunnage It' s about why maths is used daily so wonderful and everyone knows what how you meet it means (the stuff inside containers to protect contents from damage during transit) but it was interesting to learn the origin of its usein everyday life. Twist locks – the mighty strong connectors that can be used to link containers together – are also heavily featured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501303147</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tristan GooleyB08B39QNRH|title=How to Read WaterThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Signs are all around us, if we know where to look. The ability to read and interpret signs ''Society is particularly useful to navigators and those who make their living based on speech but civilisation requires the water. In fact, the ability to read water can mean the difference between life and death, especially when strong tidal currents are involved. Of course, there are those who take water-reading beyond the ability of even the most experienced sailors. Traditional Arab navigators called this knowledge the ''isharat.'' Pacific islanders call it ''kapesani lemetauwritten word''-the talk of the sea or water lore. Those who posses such knowledge have been baffling Westerners for centuries with their seemingly preternatural ability to understand the water.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=I came to Michael Marder|title=Dust (Object Lessons)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Pritchard's 'Dust'' is among the latest volumes in BloomsburyThe Curious History of Writer's fascinating new Cramp'Object Lessons' seriesby a rather strange route. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Shipping Container: I prefer the word 'painful', but I have an interest in the books aim to explore way that hands work. An exploration of the hidden histories history of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University problem which has defeated some of the Basque Country, Spain. Nevertheless, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed of skin cells best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and hairso it proved, with the detritus of our human bodies. Thus dusting – book being as much about the doctors treating the verb form – is a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselves, ultimately a futile sufferers and 'self-defeating occupation'the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cedric Villani1776572858|title=Birth of How Do You Make a TheoremBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Birth d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a Theorem'' is a remarkable journey into the world of the abstract mathematics that shape our lives and existence. When you first open pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the book and flick through the pagesbasics, you are confronted with complex formulas that disorientate the mind and defy the understanding of anyone not versed in the clinical language of the mathematician. You realise at this point that you need a guide for your journey which had never been used in our house before) and there is none better I was told that Cedric Valliniit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. He is a winner of the Fields Medal I ''knew'' more, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prizebut was little ''wiser''. A genius who has dedicated his life to understanding the most complex aspects of our world Thankfully, times have changed. He is also a writer gifted in conveying the elation and despair that his gift can bring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam GrantDanny Dorling|title= Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World Slowdown|rating= 4 |genre= Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Did you know that procrastination could actually aid creativity? No? Neither did I, but it's We are living in a piece time of information that I shall embrace rapid change, and wield in my defence from here on out, because Adam Grant says we're worried about it . Dorling tells us that the latter is sonormal, natural and probably good for us. Filled We are designed to worry and with interesting snippets the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and fascinating -some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some casesthat we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, Originals is things are not just entertainingchanging as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, but instructive as wellthe rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753556979</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben MillerLangford_Emily|title=The Aliens are ComingEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and citiesEmily found words ''useful'', wait until it gets dark and then look into the night skybut counting was what she loved best. If Obviously, you are lucky enough for it not can count anything and there's no limit to be raininghow far you can go, you will likely see hundreds of stars but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in the skytwos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Each one Then she began counting in threes: half of these could be a Sun just like our own the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and each it was this list of these Suns could have planets orbiting itodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Now times (Actually, this number confused me a little bit at first as they're a million fold and you can start subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to fathom the number be a subset of stars and planets out there – surely the human race is not a complete fluke and there are aliens even numbers, but it all worked out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder1910593508|title=Alpha: DirectionsApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Graphic NovelsHistory|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to This incredible graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited novel is a love letter to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences the Moon landings and the semi-literate. If you can't kill that cliché passion for the subject drips off with pages such as these I don't know what will workevery Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. I This is a story we know well and because of this, the book isn't designed to be authors take a message to people few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the debate about blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the literary worth book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of graphic novels, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that argumentthere are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. What it is designed to be This is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just graphic novel that, could easily have been three times as long and absolutely brilliantlystill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clancy Martin1999308719|title= Love Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without companies behind the Othernew anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 34.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= Lying is wrong For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and the last that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people you would lie of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to willingly are look for a new approach and as so often happens, the ones you love reviewing gods brought me the most – or so you would like to thinkbook I needed. In ''Love Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without companies behind the Othernew anti-ageing treatments'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, and serial groom, sets out on a mission to disprove seemed like the central beliefs we hold with respect answer to, no my problems - only you get so much more and no less than, our own moralityjust 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Wulf1847941834|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother last category.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as number '2' after a philosopher and linguist. The family film title was wellsuggesting something of prestige -that the first film had been so good it was fully justified tohave something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -do you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationnever in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mothersay, but it was Alaska (and boy aren't there are a legacy from her which lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would fund Alexander's first explorationsjustify the numeral. His first travels would be in Europe where he met But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cookheft to demand follow-ups. But it was his travels And after five years in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his lifemaking, the BBC's workBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1783099593|title=The HuntSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|genre=Animals and Wildlife Popular Science|summary=My mother 'Speaking Up' has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or a fascinating subject matter - how it's all about the capture language reflects and killing shapes our notions of one animal by anothergender. She's long had a pointIt looks at our use of language in media, education, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingreligion, the workplace and lions sleeping off personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes mid-twentieth century to providing popular TV contentthe present day. I doubt Reading it, we feel that she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies has studied everything that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the result for the intended victim is favourableKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kima CargillCampbell_Astra|title= The Psychology of OvereatingAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= As a nation, we are not So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the same as we used whole history of human space flight to get up to bespeed. We eat more, both as in more often and as in more of That could take a serving size. And we eat worse. Processed foods. Sugary drinks. It’s not really news. As while… if only there was a result, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure is higher, and our sugar levels are whoooosh. But it’s not just about the foodhandy guide that could condense it all down for you. This Enter Dallas Campbell with this book takes an in depth and incredibly interesting look at our lives as a whole, : An illustrated guide to show how leaving the modern culture of consumerism shows up 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 stopplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472581075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Marianne TaylorAdrian_Sock|title= I Used To Know That: General Science|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= This book got off to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one of 'my' sciences without a nod to any of the other '-ologies' Sock (or ''pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at schoolObject Lessons). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that 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 others. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Levy|title=Why We Do the Things We Do: Psychology in a NutshellKim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=Chalk The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and cheese; your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from the other, whether through colour and crumblinessmy partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or physical form, or from being studies them. It's something I use for about 200 days of the mind. The only thing isevery year, one pair is alone. Your two hands formed at the same time, whereas chalk is the oldera guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and philosophy predates psychology. The two were the same thing until recently, and we can perhaps point other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at a William James as the father opposite end of the split. I make this point because when I reviewed this volume's [[Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline or history evidentfresh pair every single day. HereOn which subject, however, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas amount of idiocy-cum-possession in our early history, through phrenology and mesmerism them we create every year could stack to the birth of psychologyfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. The fact that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms I'm talking, as you can tell, of the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remainhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain StephenGermano_Eye|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a NutshellEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Way back when, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, itIt's hard happened to believe sometimesme, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going and like as not it has or will happen to do a philosophy A-levelyou, too. NoI mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, I said – there was no point in studying something nobody can agree about. The introduction with a positive or negative before them to this book raises much prove the same point – correction needed to my vision to make me see with the solution to philosophical questions intended clarity and study is only ever going to be more questionsnormality. It says I've had that gizmo that Kant thought photos the study back of thoughtmy eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don'ort need to wear all the time, more preciselybut certainly benefit from on holiday, how ideas are formedor when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I'' was ve stared at – and got wrong – the highest sciencesimple, seemingly ageless test, although of various letters in various configurations that sounds like diminish in size, to prove to the psychology that I did indeed studyrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. StillOf course, study it many 's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people do do – and probably a far greater number would wish made to read around it , and find out what the cultural impact it might be like to sound as if you have studied it – hence books like this's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will CohuBall_Wonders|title=Out Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of the Woods: the armchair guide to treesAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=Most Like many people probably accept trees as, well, of a ''treescertain age,''. They're there and they're green. Some are lighter, some darker. Some are taller and other go for width, but as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. I knew that the big tree at the bottom have fond memories of next door's garden is a sycamore, but only because I heard someone say 'that sycamore is going tuning in to cause problems with watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the drains virtues of the flats at the backmaths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun. I was OK on white horse chestnuts too, but only when the kids were collecting conkers'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's his latest book landed on my desk proves that he has lost none of his passion and I opened it expecting to find lots of pictures with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia ChengYong_Contain|title=Cakes, Custard I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsa grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|summary= Eugenia Cheng The world you know is a professor of maths lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and a lover of cakehealth are all far more complex than we thought. If you’re wondering how those two Things designed to save us may kill us and things could ever intersect, it's quite easywe think would kill us may save us. And the result, Welcome to the middle modern study of the Venn diagram, if you will, is this book which makes maths fun, meaningful and relatively easy to digest. Much like her recipesmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>