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|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, 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 (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while 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. It wasn'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 ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.
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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker
|title=A Tattoo on my Brain
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Alzheimer's is a 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 elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.
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|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers
|author=Dr Kevin Dutton
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=It's happened to me' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, and like as not even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it has or will happen to you, tooall along. I mean the receipt The statement has lost a little of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them its shock value but it does help us to prove understand more about the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normalitynature of psychopathy. IIt've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye s too easy to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away associate psychopathy with glasses I don't need to wear all the timeYorkshire Ripper, but certainly benefit from on holidayJeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simpleRobert Maudsley, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course it's not agelessreal-life Hannibal Lecter, but the scientific progress truth is that led to it, the changes other people made to it, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pageshaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501312340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johnny Ball1849767343|title= Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things MathematicalCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Like many people The title and format of a this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it'certain age,s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it' I have fond memories s a hymn of tuning in praise to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun. It'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion s about why maths is so wonderful and enthusiasm for his subjecthow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ed YongB08B39QNRH|title= I Contain MultitudesThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: the microbes within us and a grander view of lifeSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard|rating= 54
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|summary= ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The world you know is Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a lierather strange route. There is no such thing I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as good or bad microbes'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. Sickness An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us so it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to the modern study of Microbeschanging medical attitudes as the problem itself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700177</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage<!-- Beattie -->|isbn=1776572858*[[image:Beattie_Stupendous.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467How Do You Make a Baby?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]] =|author==[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie Anna Fiske and Sam Peet]]===Don Bartlett (translator) [[image:5star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantly, 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 and Sam Peet|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Sarcone -->5*[[image:Sarcone_Optical.jpg|left|linkgenre=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 Home and Marie Jo Waeber]]===Family[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|ChildrenIt's Non-Fiction]] more than sixty years since I used to work as a library assistant asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around told me that she'd get me a book, chattering excitedly andabout it...squinting rather oddly. The book A couple of days later I was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised handed a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period basics, in the early 90s, the pictures clinical language which had a sudden spike never been used in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain our house before) and went back to their everyday livesI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images) I ''knew'' more, in the engrossing and immersive new book but was little ''Optical Illusions.wiser'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]]<br>. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caroline AllistonDanny Dorling|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersSlowdown|rating= 4|genre= Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=We are living in a time of rapid change, and we''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for Budding Engineersus. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we'' takes a strictly handsre doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-on approach to science to show how some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific ideas can detail why either we shouldn't be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travelworried as we are, programmable machinesor in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, lightthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist rate of change in mind, so there many things is a focus on slowing down and the fun aspect, with many direction of the projects involving toyschange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marty JopsonLangford_Emily|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cookEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=CookeryChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=IEmily found words 've always believed that if you understood 'useful'why', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there' something worked 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 a particular way threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was very easy to remember this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''howthreeven'' . (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.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and what you needed Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to dothe Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike 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>
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{{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>
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{{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>
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Newman1783099593|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule
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|summary=In Neuropolis, the book and the Radio 4 series, Newman targets 'Speaking Up' has a subfascinating subject matter -species how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of pop-neuroscience that he dubs bro-science – a pessimisticlanguage in media, education, religion, denigrating take on the brain that is based more on macho posing than workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of researchfrom the mid-twentieth century to the present day. He sets out to destroy Reading it using proper science, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Sarah HuttonDallas Campbell|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Cool PhysicsSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonGermano_Eye|title=Something or Nothing: A Search for My Personal Theory of EverythingEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|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 existprove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientistsOf course, theologians and philosophersit's not ageless, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him and he begins his search by quite openly admitting but the scientific progress that he has only a limited scientific education. It was good led to know - for once - that I was on it, the same footing as changes other people made to it, and the author and we could explore togethercultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>
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{{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&creativeASINisbn=B06WW5TKNP]]Ball_Wonders ==|title=[[AdmissionsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh]]=Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Itsummary=Like many people of a ''certain age,''s more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories have fond memories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of Life, Death maths and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I science; succeeding where our schoolteachers 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 failed and when I heard about actually making these subjects ''Admissionsfun.'' I decided to treat myself to an audio downloadAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, particularly as Henry Marsh was narratinghis latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject. 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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyYong_Contain|title=First Science EncyclopediaI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong
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|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>
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