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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 regular box headed 'speak like a nature series aboutscientist' 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]]eating.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Campbell -->|isbn=0241480442*[[image|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook:Campbell_Astra.jpgVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|leftauthor=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164055?ie=UTF8&tag5|genre=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164055]]Cookery|summary===Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide How to leaving the planet Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Dallas CampbellHenry Mance]]=== [[image:5starand was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] So… It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you want hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to leave animal-based protein. It wasn't the planet? Before you do you'd better study 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 whole history ease of human space flight being able to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetfew spare moments. [[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet by Dallas Campbell|Full Review]]<br> <br>}}{{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 'certain age,'wasn't something which nice people talked about'' . I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.knew'' more, but was little ''wiser'' Although decades . Thankfully, times have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subjectchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ed YongDanny Dorling|title= I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of lifeSlowdown|rating= 54|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary= The world you know is We are living in a lietime of rapid change, and we're worried about it. There Dorling tells us that the latter is no such thing as normal, natural and probably good or bad microbesfor us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. Sickness However, over the next three-hundred-and health -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 all far more complex than , or in some cases that we thought're worrying about the wrong things. Things designed to save us may kill us and Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think would kill us may save usthey are. Welcome to In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the modern study direction of Microbeschange will in some cases go into reverse. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700177</amazonuk>0300243405

{{Frontpage<!-- Beattie -->|isbn=Langford_Emily*[[image:Beattie_Stupendous.jpg|lefttitle=Emily's Numbers|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]]Joss Langford|rating===[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet]]===4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Childrensummary=Emily found words ''s Non-Fiction]] Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. Thatuseful's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantlybut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play. [[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie count anything and Sam Peet|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Sarcone -->*[[image:Sarcone_Optical.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938475?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938475]] ===[[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Childrenthere's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] I used no limit to work as how far you can go, but then Emily moved a library assistant step further and I remember arriving to work one morning to find began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of my fellow librarians crowded around a bookthe list were even numbers, chattering excitedly but the other half was odd and...squinting rather oddly. The book it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Magic Eyethreeven'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s (Actually, the pictures had this confused me a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Caroline Alliston|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineerslittle bit at first as they'' takes re a strictly hands-on approach to science subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees a subset of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mindeven numbers, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marty Jopson1910593508|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and how we cookMike Collins|rating=45|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=I've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in This incredible graphic novel is a particular way it was very easy love letter to remember ''how'' it worked the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and what you needed to doMike Collins. The food This is a story we eat is no exception to know well and because of this rule and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work , the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the kitchen - and he covers everything from blanks. These shortcuts are the type of knives we use through only downside to the food book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the futureslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. Best of all, he does it in language This is a graphic novel that even a science illiterate like me can understandcould easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurence Browne1999308719|title= The Many Faces of CoincidenceLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 34.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= Browne does not mislead with this choice For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and 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 of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of title; he does without balance. It was time to look for a doubt explore new approach and as so often happens, the many faces of coincidencereviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Dittricht -->[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]] ===[[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]==isbn=1847941834 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br> {{newreviewAtomic Habits|author=Tom Wolfe|title= The Kingdom of SpeechJames Clear|rating= 24.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= I''If ve said this before but there are some books that you are not having a fight with somebodyseek out, then some books that you are not sure whether stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you are alive when you wake up in the morning.really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements as this even up to is in the near present (The Guardian in 2004), you can be sure that Wolfe, nearing 87, has lost none of his familiar argumentative style; or that his journalistic days are nearing a close, with his love of melodramalast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney ShawHoneyborne BlueII|title= The Smell of Fresh RainBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= The Smell You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of Fresh Rain attempts prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to open our minds have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the power cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and potential of our sense never in the world of smellnon-fiction. Barney ShawIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a man armed with only a powerful curiosity lot of those these days) and boundless enthusiasm sets out wants to understand this ever elusive sense 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 explore ways to interpret smells demand follow-ups. And after five years 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 making, the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfyingBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Newman1783099593|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In Neuropolis'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the book workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the Radio 4 seriesmid-twentieth century to the present day. Reading it, Newman targets a sub-species of pop-neuroscience we feel that she has studied everything that he dubs bro-science – a pessimistic, denigrating take has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the brain that is based more on macho posing than on researchKardashians with equal rigour. He sets out }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to destroy it using proper science.leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>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 book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonAdrian_Sock|title=Cool PhysicsSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle The subject of wavefront sources''this book has been around for several millennia, donand yet my partner't worry – it was only in 1678 that s daughter has been employed for several years designing it happened, so youor them. It're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motions 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 gravitational constant being measured both date from before opposite end of the Victorian erascale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, and all the amount of these three things are on them we create every year could stack to the introductory timeline in this bookfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I think might well be proof enough that a primer in 'm talking, as you can tell, of the world of physics is very much neededhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonGermano_Eye|title=Something or Nothing: A Search for My Personal Theory of EverythingEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory of the meaning of the universe,and of why they - we - exist within it. It's a natural extension happened to wonder whether life was createdme, and like as not it has orwill happen to you, if not createdtoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, how was life formed? In 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'Something or Nothingve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don' Anthony Marson develops his own theories. The journey began when t need to wear all the author was time, but certainly benefit from on a touring holiday in Tasmania, gazed up at or when watching TV or a clear night sky cinema or theatre production. And above and asked himself how beyond that I've stared at – and why all got wrong – the stars came simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to existthe relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientistsOf course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, theologians and philosophersthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Like many people of a ''certain age, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and he begins actually making these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his search by quite openly admitting latest book proves that he has only a limited scientific education. It was good to know - lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for once - that I was on the same footing as the author and we could explore togetherhis subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Marsh -->[[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]]==isbn=Yong_Contain [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's more than two years since I read [[Do No HarmContain Multitudes: Stories of Life, Death the microbes within us and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories a grander view 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> {{newreviewlife|author=Dorling Kindersley|title=First Science EncyclopediaEd Yong

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|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 The world you know is a very young agelie. What's needed There is a no such thing as good, basic reference book which will introduce or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all the subjects far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and give a good groundingthings we think would kill us may save us. It needs Welcome 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 wellmodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>