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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Popular scienceEdzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography__NOTOC__|summary=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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about dangerInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I'd like Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to meet Normbe a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. HeWe get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's an absolutely average kind which explains some of guythe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, thirty one years oldfungi, 5protists 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 Wildlife|summary=I don'9”, t often begin my reviews with a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week warning but with the occasional treat ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a bar of milk chocolate. Oh, vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and heSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or is definitely not the other - can take it or leave itcompanion volume you've been looking for. In As a TV show the author would argue that ''The Norm ChroniclesAll Creatures'' we hear lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the story of his life book is not suitable for younger readers and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to know) inform and Kelvinprovoke thought, whoparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn's t lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a dareHuman-devilShaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, hardI 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-living kind of guybased protein. Itwasn's t the story of the hazards they face taste - some real and some imagined I know that I can get plant- in every aspect of their lives. And along with these stories are based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the ''real'' facts about animal kingdom - it was the reality ease of the risks they takebeing able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristine BarnettDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5

|summary=The tutor stands at the front Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the university classself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, frantically scribbling equations on as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the large whiteboard in front of himelements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. He This is well respected by his students; an expert in several fields, including general relativity, string theory, quantum field theory and biophysicswhat makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. In fact, he recently unveiled Daniel Gibbs is a brand new theory that may put him neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in line for a Nobel Prize''A Tattoo on my Brain''. Oh, and did I forget to mention that he is just 14 years old?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241145627</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=The Great Mathematical Problems|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I joked with a friend when I first got Until the book events of 6 January 2021 that ''The Great Problems'' may be a step too far for memight have surprised, and perhaps I should wait for Stewart to release a book called even shocked many readers: now they''The Fairly Good Mathematical Problems'' as re probably convinced that they knew it would be closer to my levelall along. While I originally said The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it in jest, by chapter four or so I was starting does help us to think I'd been closer to the truth than I'd realised - Stewart seems, somewhat surprisingly given his past success with books like understand more about the brilliant [[Professor Stewart's Hoard nature of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart|Professor Stewartpsychopathy. It's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures]], too easy to have pitched this book about associate psychopathy with the 'really big questions in mathematics' at an extremely high level. With just a degree in mathematics and nearly ten years worth of experience teaching the subjectYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, I found it something of a slog to get throughSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, with many concepts being difficult to graspthe real-life Hannibal Lecter, in particular but the Mordell conjecturetruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681995</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Strogatz1849767343|title=The Joy of XCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Steven Strogatz, award-winning professor, takes us on a tour The title and format of mathematics, and how it relates to our everyday life, in this fascinating book. Split into six sections, might lead you to think that it'Numberss either about responsibility - or it', s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn'Relationshipst: it', 'Shapes', 'Change', 'Data' and 'Frontiers', its a hymn of praise to maths. It's an engaging about why maths is so wonderful and well-presented read, with short chapters which make how you meet it easy to dip intoin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Restak and Scott KimB08B39QNRH|title=How Puzzles Improve Your Brain: The Surprising Science Curious History of the Playful BrainWriter's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Many people in ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the first flush of youth will read this book written word''. I came to find ways Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of increasing their brain powerWriter's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. Others - like me - at I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the other end of word 'painful' but I have an interest in the age continuum will read because they're looking for ways to restrict or even reverse what they see as deteriorationway that hands work. Both groups might initially be disappointed as An exploration of the title suggests that history of a problem which has defeated some of the book is about puzzlesbest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, but don't give up as with the reality is far more useful. This is a book being as much about how our brains ''work'', how the different parts interact or come into play in certain circumstances - doctors treating the sufferers and then there are some puzzles directed at improving performance in those areasthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641751</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Wright1776572858|title=Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=It'Circulations more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she' by Thomas Wright is d get me a biography of English physician William Harvey’s life, and the story of the 'birth book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a theory'. It takes pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the reader through time basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before, during ) and after the creation and completion of I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it 'De Motu Cordis'wasn', in t something which Harvey famously outlines the most comprehensive antecedent of the mechanism of blood circulation as we know it todaynice people talked about''. The combination of the writer I ''knew''s aptitude for storytelling and the intriguing life of the individual about whom he writes makes for a fascinating readmore, allowing one to course through chronologically arranged chapters on Harvey’s life and worksbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, mixed with briefer essays on subject matters ranging from the history of vivisection to the philosophical underpinnings of Harvey’s worktimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard MabeyDanny Dorling|title=Turned Out Nice Again: On Living With the WeatherSlowdown

|summary=Twenge We are living in a time of rapid change, and Campbell have been studying we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the rise in narcissism as a social trendlatter is normal, natural and probably good for us. They We are well-qualified designed to comment, having worked since 1998 worry and with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research the current state of what we're doing in this fieldthe world we have much to be worried about. At more than However, over the next three -hundred -and-some pages it's rather weighty for , if you can follow the popular market at which arguments, itsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn's aimedt be as worried as we are, but even if you only dip into this bookor in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, I things are not changing as rapidly as we think you'll take home their messagethey are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Langford_Emily|title=Damian OEmily'Briens Numbers|titleauthor=If Houses Why Not Mouses?Joss Langford|rating=3.54|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to the plural of sheephow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in particular my older sister’s youthful fascination with it twos. She knew allabout 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 ''One sheep, two sheep. No two sheeps. That sillythreeven'' etc etc. So when this book arrived I thought it perfectly plausible that the author had written an extended investigation into house/houses, mouse/mice. (No two mouses? That silly.) What I discovered on making my way through the pagesActually, however, is that there is this confused me a little bit at first as they're a lot more subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to this book that irregular plurals be a subset of the 3-year-old-befuddling kindeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395595</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J Barrett1910593508|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Beyond)Mike Collins

|genre=ReferenceHistory|summary=I don't usually open reviews This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by explaining how I came to read Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a particular bookstory we know well and because of this, but on this occasion it will help you the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to judge whether or not this the book is suitable for . If you if 've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you know where I'm coming fromwill be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. Back in 2006 This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three people got together times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and between them they built a site companies behind the new anti- letaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I's call ve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everestworking out OK. We did it because it Time has passed though and although I''could'' be m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there and we wanted to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be donewere a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a simple HTML site new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I had no problems in mastering needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the technicalities. Inew anti-ageing treatments''d built seemed like the site under instruction and I knew it inside outanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Levy1847941834|title=Why?Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaLifestyle|summary=Why does the Titanic float I've said this before but a brick sink? And there are some books that water they’re sinking or floating inyou seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, why is it wet? And what colour right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is it, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions and many more are answered in this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellthe last category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareHoneyborne BlueII|title=Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|summary=The annual New Scientist book is becoming 'Speaking Up' has a bit fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of a ritual for megender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, and I hope it is for you too. Each yearreligion, they collate the best questions workplace and answers personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from their Last Word column, and each year I heartily recommend that you pick it up, or give it the mid-twentieth century to someone as a Christmas the presentday. This year is no exceptionReading it, as we find out whether we'll feel that she has studied everything that has ever speak dolphin, all been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the ins and outs of James Bond's vodka martini, and - most importantly - detailed information from a dishwasher expert about how to deal Kardashians with tinned spinachequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125026X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WaringCampbell_Astra|title=From 0 Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to Infinity in 26 Centuriesleaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating=45

|summary=I quite like Maths and ISo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'm not bad at it at d better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a basic level, which is useful as I have while… if only there was a financial based jobhandy guide that could condense it all down for you. But I recall the point at which Maths went from being easy Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to incomprehensible for me; sometime over leaving the Summer that feel between GSCE and A-Level standard. Then, as now, I never really wondered where Maths had come from; I just worried why I suddenly couldn't understand it any moreplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178737</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David KaiserAdrian_Sock|title=How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum RevivalSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways in which the west coast hippies have benefited the development The subject of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theorythis book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, they latched on to a crucial theorem or them. It's something I use for about 200 days of Bellevery year, about what Einstein termed ''spooky'' interactions between particles at a distance. This might otherwise guess (well, I have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which has become clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known as the 'nomass-cloning theorem'murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might be expected from On which subject, the Germeshausen Professor amount of them we create every year could stack to the History of Science freaking moon and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of Technology's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkleyhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CrystalGermano_Eye|title=Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English SpellingEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=Are It'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 speller? I must confess positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I'm not much ve had that gizmo that photos the back of one myselfmy eye to check for diabetes and other problems, so I've had different tests to check the main thing pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I was after don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from this book was an insight into on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the peculiarities simple, seemingly ageless test, of English spellingvarious letters in various configurations that diminish in size, and some hints and tips to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for remembering the rulesme. OhOf course, and a funit's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, entertaining read at the same time (this is Crystalchanges other people made to it, after and the cultural impact it's had are all)on these eye-opening small pages. I was not disappointed. (Even if I can still only spell disappointed with the help of my spellchecker)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685672</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim HoltBall_Wonders|title=Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective StoryWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=In Like many people of a ''The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxycertain age,'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer I have fond memories of tuning in to life, watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the universe virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question is, rendering the answer meaningless. In actually making these subjects ''Why Does the World Exist?fun.''Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, Jim Holt explores potential answers to what could be considered the ultimate question his latest book proves that he has lost none of life, the universe his passion and everything – why is there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-twoenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles FernyhoughYong_Contain|title=Pieces of LightI Contain Multitudes: the New Science microbes within us and a grander view of Memorylife|author=Ed Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=Over the years, I've seen the human memory at its best The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and worstthings we think would kill us may save us. I watched my Nan suffer with Alzheimer's Welcome to the point she couldn't remember who anyone was, but also had a colleague who won a silver medal at the Memory Olympics for his ability to remember long strings of items. I also studied memory as part of a psychology degree but, perhaps ironically, I can no longer remember much modern study of what I learnedmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668448X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Robert L Wolke and Marlene Parrish|title=What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen|rating=3.5|genre=Cookery|summary=''Everyone'' knows that when you chop onions, you cry, but have you ever wondered ''exactly'' why this happens? More Move on to the point have you ever considered what you might be able to do so that you don't need to look like a snivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? Life is littered with such conundrums (along with the old-wives'-tale solutions) but there seem to be more of them in the kitchen than elsewhere. Robert L Wolke has a column in the ''Washington'' ''Post'' in which he debunks misconceptions and answers questions with logic, science and a healthy dose of common sense. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393341658</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]