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<!-- Honeyborne -->{{Frontpage[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|leftisbn=1788360702|linktitle=httpsCharles, The Alternative Prince://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849909679?ieAn Unauthorised Biography|author=UTF8&tagEdzard Ernst|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode4|genre=as2&campBiography|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1849909679]]For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]===0192779230[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and WildlifeThe Invisible World of Germs|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Scienceauthor=Isabel Thomas|Popular Science]]rating=5|genre=Children's Non-FictionYou may well remember when the sticking of a number |summary='2Germs' after seems to have become a film title was suggesting something of prestige catch- that all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the first film had been so good it was fully justified potential to have something moremake you ill. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined In the first book in what looks to cinema - you barely got be a TV very promising new series worthy of , OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a numbered sequel, clear and never in accessible introduction to the world of non-fictiongerms. If someone We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has made developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a nature series aboutregular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, sayfungi, Alaska (protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and boy arenWildlife|summary=I don't there are often begin my reviews with a lot warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of those these days) a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the numeralcompanion volume you've been looking for. But some nature programmes do have As a TV show the prestigeauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the energy book is not suitable for younger readers and the heft to demand follow ups- after reading - I agree with him. And after five years in the making, the BBCHe says that he's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helpingwritten it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne 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 Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br>eating.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dallas Campbell0241480442|title= Ad AstraHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceCookery|summary= So… you want Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to leave 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 (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the planet? Before you do odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which youhope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn'd better study t the whole history taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of human space flight being able to get up to speed. That could take sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for youfew spare moments. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164055</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim AdrianDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Sock (Object Lessons)A Tattoo on my Brain

|summary=The subject '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the events of this book has been around for several millennia6 January 2021 that might have surprised, and yet my partnereven shocked many readers: now they's daughter has been employed for several years designing re probably convinced that they knew it, or themall along. It's something I use for about 200 days The statement has lost a little of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people its shock value but it does help us to think understand more about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer nature of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single daypsychopathy. On which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a yearYorkshire Ripper, apparentlyJeffrey Dahmer, which is plain stupid. I'm talkingSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, as you can tellthe real-life Hannibal Lecter, of but the humble socktruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501315064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Germano1849767343|title=Eye Chart (Object Lessons)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=It's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too'Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''.  I mean the receipt came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of certain little numerical results, with Writer's Cramp'' by a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normalityrather strange route. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of have problems with my eye hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to check for diabetes and other problems, as 'interesting': Iprefer the word 've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and Ipainful've come away with glasses but I don't need to wear all have an interest in the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre productionway that hands work. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – An exploration of the simple, seemingly ageless test, history of a problem which has defeated some of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry best medical minds for me. Of course some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it's not agelessproved, but with the book being as much about the scientific progress that led to it, doctors treating the changes other people made to it, sufferers and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pageschanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501312340</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johnny Ball1776572858|title= Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things MathematicalHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Like many people 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 book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew''certain agemore,but was little ''wiser' I '. Thankfully, times have fond memories changed.}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of tuning what we're doing in the world we have much to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling be worried about. However, over the virtues of maths next three-hundred-and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects -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 cases that we'funre worrying about the wrong things. Mostly.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, his latest book proves that he has lost none the rate of his passion change in many things is slowing down and enthusiasm for his subjectthe direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=0300243405}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ed Yong1910593508|title= I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and a grander view of lifeMike Collins|rating= 5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary= The world you know This incredible graphic novel is a lielove letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. There This is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than a story we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us know well and things because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we think would kill us may save uscan fill in the blanks. Welcome These shortcuts are the only downside to the modern study book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of Microbesa film you will be familiar with the slight 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>1784700177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet1999308719|title= Stupendous Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practicalFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, enjoyable tasksit was working out OK. That Time has passed though and although I's m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the secret behind reviewing gods brought me the experiments in book I needed. ''Stupendous Live Forever Manual: Science.'' They have the fun element, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in seemed like the homeanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber1847941834|title= Optical IllusionsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around a book've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, chattering excitedly some books that you stumble across and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if some books that drop into your life because you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90sreally MUST read them, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularitylike, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fansright now! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.Atomic Habits''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk> is in the last category.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II

|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow -ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's ''Blue Planet'' series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909679</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1783099593|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpeaking Up|author=Marty Jopson|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cookAllyson Jule

|genre=CookeryPopular Science|summary=I've always believed that if you understood Speaking Up''why'' something worked in has a particular way it was very easy to remember ''fascinating subject matter - how'' it worked language reflects and what you needed to doshapes our notions of gender. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the kitchen - workplace and he covers everything personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the type of knives we use through mid-twentieth century to the food of the futurepresent day. Best of allReading it, he does it in language we feel that she has studied everything that even a science illiterate like me can understandhas ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurence BrowneCampbell_Astra|title= The Many Faces of CoincidenceAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Browne does not mislead So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore book: An illustrated guide to leaving the many faces of coincidenceplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Luke DittrichAdrian_Sock|title= Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovered quite a bit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571862</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Tom Wolfe|title= The Kingdom of SpeechKim Adrian|rating= 23.5

|summary= The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It'If you are not s something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fight with somebodyfresh pair every single day. On which subject, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morningamount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more.Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'' With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements m talking, as this even up to the near present (The Guardian in 2004), you can be sure that Wolfetell, nearing 87, has lost none of his familiar argumentative style; or that his journalistic days are nearing a close, with his love of melodramathe humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney ShawGermano_Eye|title= The Smell of Fresh Rain|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary= The Smell of Fresh Rain attempts to open our minds to the power and potential of our sense of smell. Barney Shaw, a man armed with only a powerful curiosity and boundless enthusiasm sets out to understand this ever elusive sense and to explore ways to interpret smells in an accessible and simple way. His journey takes him from boatyards to markets via Harrods and his childhood home to uncover the meaning behind everyday scents and to distil the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Robert Newman|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideWilliam Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=In NeuropolisIt's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the book pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the Radio 4 seriestime, but certainly benefit from on holiday, Newman targets or when watching TV or a sub-species cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of pop-neuroscience various letters in various configurations that he dubs bro-science – a pessimisticdiminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, denigrating take on but the brain scientific progress that is based more on macho posing than on research. He sets out led to it, the changes other people made to destroy it using proper science, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonBall_Wonders|title=Cool PhysicsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about Like many people of a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''certain age, don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind I have fond memories of tuning in physics. Brownian motion, to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and all of actually making these three things are on the introductory timeline in this subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book, which I think might well be proof enough proves that a primer in the world he has lost none of physics is very much neededhis passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonYong_Contain|title=Something or NothingI Contain Multitudes: A Search for My Personal Theory the microbes within us and a grander view of Everythinglife|author=Ed Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory of the meaning of the universe,and of why they - we - exist within itThe world you know is a lie. It's a natural extension to wonder whether life was created, or, if not created, how was life formed? In ''Something There is no such thing as good or Nothing'' Anthony Marson develops his own theoriesbad microbes. The journey began when the author was on a touring holiday in Tasmania, gazed up at a clear night sky Sickness and asked himself how and why health are all the stars came far more complex than we thought. Things designed to exist. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientists, theologians save us may kill us and philosophers, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him and he begins his search by quite openly admitting that he has only a limited scientific educationthings we think would kill us may save us. It was good Welcome to know - for once - that I was on the same footing as the author and we could explore togethermodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

<!-- Marsh -->Move on to [[image:Marsh Admissions.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WW5TKNP?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B06WW5TKNP]] ===[[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Reference Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book do? [[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Dorling Kindersley|title=First Science Encyclopedia|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>}}