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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Machines of Sex ResearchAlternative Prince: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985An Unauthorised Biography|author=Donna J DruckerEdzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=I'll start bluntly – this is a very academic, specialised tomeFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and is not really for the curious reader to flick throughcomplementary therapies. Given that, you probably can work out exactly what this book is like''Charles, and therefore move on from this review, but should you stay with me youThe Alternative Prince'll find that if you didn't know much about sex research equipment then critically assesses the subject might actually manage to fire a curious synapse and leave you with some interest. It isPrince's opinions, after all, not a topic to be ignored easily – as I read beliefs and write about this book in September 2013 I'm weeks away from Channel 4 making one of aims against the featured scientists a historical figure in a drama, which is only part background of a season that controversially includes something like the science of fifty years ago – namely filming copulating couplesscientific evidence. Conversely, if you did know something on the topic, this book will be on your shelves quite imminently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9400770634</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells There are few instances of Dante, Cicero, his beliefs being vindicated and St Augustine and quotes a multitude his relentless promotion of obscure troubadours from treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets reputation of information but in the flow a man who is proud of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches the cheese course refusal to apply evidence- definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informedbased, intrigued and prodded logical reasoning to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heardambitions. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing the Enemy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=SpilloverVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicThe Invisible World of Germs|author=David QuammenIsabel Thomas

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodiespotential to make you ill.'' This is In the first book in what looks to be a salient fact taken away from David Quammen's ''Spillover''. The entire book is very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a most trenchant eye-opener clear and accessible introduction to just how much the world of germs. We get an impact animal infections have on informed look at how people; approximately 60% of human infectious originally thought about diseases are 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'zoonoses'which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America|author=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J DoberFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=If I told you that doctors had been using human beings in the most horrible of medical experiments, that they had done things like tie toddlers to beds to insert live pathogens into their eyes, injected children with radiation, sterilised those thought to be subhuman and even castrated a child just to get a supply of tissue for a lab experiment, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germany. I am not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewgareth_steel|title=God Versus Particle Physics: A No-Score DrawNever Work With Animals|author=John DaviesGareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with 'God Versus Particle Physics: A No Score Draw'Never Work With Animals' is ' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a bold, witty vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and undoubtedly controversial book that questions our blind faith in scienceSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. Davies, As a psychologist, analyses TV show the subject in detailauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, creating some interesting and convincing arguments concluding as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that some of the latest theories in the realm of physics seem to border on the metaphysical, lacking any kind of demonstrable proofbook is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He reasons says that many of the arguments used by prominent atheistshe's written it to inform and provoke thought, demanding evidence that God existsparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, can also although there are occasions when you would be applied to ideas such as the Big Bang, parallel universes, dark matter best choosing between reading and the Higgs Boson, ironically known as the ''God particle''eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405587</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Sea MonstersHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Joseph NiggNiko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=A confessionEmotionally, I am a vegan. When reading hardbacks Mentally, I take the paper cover, if there is one, off, to keep it pristineam a vegan. Sometimes there's a second benefit, with I read [[Longbourn How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Jo BakerHenry Mance]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneathand was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, or suchlikeI am not a vegan. But It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with this book I wonregard 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 be alone, for the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as has only two extant original copiesanything 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3. It5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a coloured replica 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 large map of statue over time affected the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragonswhat makes Daniel Gibbs' cliché about maps comes frommemoir so admirable. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus Alzheimers and has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on both together, in such a lovely fashionmy Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans0099551063|title=The Book Wisdom of FungiPsychopaths: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The WorldLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=Fungi are '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the fifth order events of the natural kingdom and it’s estimated 6 January 2021 that there are approximately one and a half million speciesmight have surprised, found throughout the worldeven shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. ‘’The Book of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred of the known fungi and each is pictured at its actual size in full colour and there’s The statement has lost a scientific explanation little of its distribution, habitat, form, spore colour and edibility. The tone of the book is academic shock value but don’t let this put you off - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted to knowing that it was better does help us to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached understand more about the nature of psychopathy. It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the structure inside real- and I found it interestinglife Hannibal Lecter, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) and accessiblebut the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Paralysed with FearCount on Me|author=Gareth WilliamsMiguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Gareth Williams, author The title and format of ''Angel of Death'', turns his focus from the history of the plague this book might lead you to think that of polio in it's either about responsibility - or it'Paralysed with Fears a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it'. From the first report s a hymn of a case in 1700-Strasbourg, right through praise to polio in the present day, he traces polio’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries and geographical bordersmaths. Almost more intriguing, though, It's about why maths is the insight we receive to the cut-throat competition between scientists who sought to use polio as a means for making historyso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137299754</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowB08B39QNRH|title=Mathletics|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, I was thrilled to get the chance to read a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into the world The Curious History of sportsWriter'. This is rather a frustrating read because it seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points out that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better alls Cramp: Solving an age-rounders than any other animal. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s so obvious. Then there are other chapters, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more space. The decathlon one is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections and doubling the other half in length might have been the way to go here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewold problem|author=Dr David Lewis|title=Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do ItMichael Pritchard|rating=4.5

|summary=How many times have we asked ourselves ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the question:written word''.

I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Why did : I do that?prefer the word 'painful' Most but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the time, the question is a response to history of a sudden inexplicable impulse or urge on our part. That extra helping problem which has defeated some of chocolate cakethe best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, that flirtation with the guy in book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the office, or that must-have item in changing medical attitudes as the supermarket trolley may all be causes for regret once our rational brain kicks inproblem itself. But why is it that we humans are often slaves to our base instinct?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946852</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1776572858|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and numbers about dangerDon Bartlett (translator)

|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm. He's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, We are living in a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat of a bar time of milk chocolate. Ohrapid change, and hewe's ambivalent re worried about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other - can take it or leave it. In ''The Norm Chronicles'' we hear Dorling tells us that the story of his life latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the lives current state of his friends Prudence (what we're doing in the name tells you what you need world we have much to know) and Kelvin, who's a dare-devil, hard-living kind of guybe worried about. It's However, over the story of the hazards they face next three-hundred- some real and -some imagined - 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 every aspect of their livessome cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. And along with these stories Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are . In fact, the ''real'' facts about rate of change in many things is slowing down and the reality direction of the risks they takechange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Kristine BarnettJoss Langford|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|titlesummary=The SparkEmily 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: A Motherhalf 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's Story re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of Nurturing Genius 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 Mike Collins

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=The tutor stands at This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the front of Moon landings and the passion for the university classsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, frantically scribbling equations on the large whiteboard in front of himChris Baker and Mike Collins. He This is a story we know well respected by his students; an expert in several fields, including general relativity, string theory, quantum field theory and biophysics. In factbecause of this, he recently unveiled the authors take a brand new theory few narrative shortcuts knowing that may put him we can fill in line for the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a Nobel Prizegraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719Oh|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and did companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I forget intended to mention live forever and that he is 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 balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing 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 14 years old?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145627</amazonuk>101 tips.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart1847941834|title=The Great Mathematical ProblemsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I joked with a friend when I first got the book 've said this before but there are some books that ''The Great Problems'' may be a step too far for meyou seek out, some books that you stumble across and perhaps I should wait for Stewart to release a book called ''The Fairly Good Mathematical Problems'' as it would be closer to my level. While I originally said it in jestsome books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, by chapter four or so I was starting to think I'd been closer to the truth than I'd realised - Stewart seemslike, somewhat surprisingly given his past success with books like the brilliant [[Professor Stewartright now! 's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart|Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures]], to have pitched this book about the Atomic Habits'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 subject, I found it something of a slog to get through, with many concepts being difficult to grasp, is in particular the Mordell conjecturelast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681995</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven StrogatzHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Joy of XBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Steven StrogatzYou 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, awardbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -winning professor, takes us on you barely got a tour TV series worthy of mathematicsa numbered sequel, and how it relates to our everyday life, never in this fascinating bookthe world of non-fiction. Split into six sectionsIf someone has made a nature series about, 'Numbers'say, Alaska (and boy aren'Relationships't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, 'Shapes'why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, 'Change', 'Data' the energy and 'Frontiers'the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, itthe BBC's an engaging and well-presented read, with short chapters which make it easy to dip intoBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Restak and Scott Kim1783099593|title=How Puzzles Improve Your Brain: The Surprising Science of the Playful BrainSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Many people in the first flush of youth will read this book to find ways 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of increasing their brain powergender. Others - like me - It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the other end workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the age continuum will read because they're looking for ways mid-twentieth century to restrict or even reverse what they see as deterioration. Both groups might initially be disappointed as the title suggests that the book is about puzzles, but don't give up as the reality is far more usefulpresent day. This is a book about how our brains ''work''Reading it, how we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the different parts interact or come into play in certain circumstances - and then there are some puzzles directed at improving performance in those areasKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641751</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas WrightCampbell_Astra|title=CirculationAd Astra: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaAn illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary=After many years of discussion of climate change it's easy So… you want to assume that this is a book about leave the planet? Before you do you''climate'' but it's not - or only indirectly. It's about how we live with ''weather'' and our reactions to it and climate comes into d better study the discussion only as an examination whole history of our reaction human space flight to get up to the changesspeed. You might have heard the essays which were broadcast in That could take a five part BBC Radio 3 series ''Changing Climates'' which ran in February 2013, but as always with Richard Mabey, his words warrant thought and examination which can't be accommodated by the spoken word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Twenge and Campbell have been studying the rise in narcissism as while… if only there was a social trend. They are well-qualified to comment, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research in this field. At more than three hundred pages handy guide that could condense it's rather weighty all down for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into . Enter Dallas Campbell with this book, I think you'll take home their message: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Damian O'BrienAdrian_Sock|title=If Houses Why Not Mouses?Sock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay to the plural The subject of sheepthis book has been around for several millennia, in particular and yet my older sister’s youthful fascination with partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it all. ''One sheep, two sheepor them. No two sheeps. That silly'It' etc etc. So when this book arrived s something I thought it perfectly plausible that the author had written an extended investigation into house/housesuse for about 200 days of every year, mouse/mice. at a guess (No two mouses? That silly.) What well, I discovered on making have my way through self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the pagesscale to well-known mass-murderer of women, howeverTed Bundy, is that there is who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a lot fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more to this book that irregular plurals than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the 3-year-old-befuddling kindhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettGermano_Eye|title=MediaWiki Eye Chart (Wikipedia and BeyondObject Lessons)|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came to read a particular book, but on this occasion it will help you to judge whether or not this book is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming from. Back in 2006 three people got together and between them they built a site - let's call it [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everest. We did it because it ''could'' be there and we wanted to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site and I had no problems in mastering the technicalities. I'd built the site under instruction and I knew it inside out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joel Levy|title=Why?|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=Why does the Titanic float but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating in, why is it wet? And what colour 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 well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?William Germano

|summary=The annual New Scientist book is becoming a bit of a ritual for It's happened to me, and I hope like as not it is for has or will happen to you , too. Each yearI 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, they collate I've had different tests to check the best questions pressure inside my eye, and answers I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from their Last Word columnon holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and each year beyond that I heartily recommend 've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that you pick it updiminish in size, or give it to someone as a Christmas presentprove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. This year is no exceptionOf course, as we find out whether weit'll ever speak dolphins not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, all the ins changes other people made to it, and outs of James Bondthe cultural impact it's vodka martini, and had are all on these eye- most importantly - detailed information from a dishwasher expert about how to deal with tinned spinachopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125026X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WaringBall_Wonders|title=From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=I quite like Maths and I'm not bad at it at a basic level, which is useful as I have a financial based job. But I recall the point at which Maths went from being easy to incomprehensible for me; sometime over the Summer that feel between GSCE and Wonders Beyond Numbers: 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 more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178737</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBrief History of All Things Mathematical|author=David Kaiser|title=How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum RevivalJohnny Ball|rating=3.5

|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways in which the west coast hippies have benefited the development Like many people of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on to a crucial theorem of Bell, about what Einstein termed ''spookycertain age,'' interactions between particles at a distance. This might otherwise I have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the 'no-cloning theorem'. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might be expected from the Germeshausen Professor fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the History virtues of Science maths and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyscience; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''s programfun. Incidentally '' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex has lost none of his passion and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkleyenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CrystalYong_Contain|title=Spell It OutI Contain Multitudes: The Singular Story the microbes within us and a grander view of English Spellinglife|author=Ed Yong

|summary=Are The world you know is a speller? I must confess I'm not much of one myself, so the main lie. There is no such thing I was after from this book was an insight into the peculiarities of English spelling, and some hints and tips for remembering the rulesas good or bad microbes. Oh, Sickness and a fun, entertaining read at the same time (this is Crystal, after health are all). I was not disappointedfar more complex than we thought. (Even if I can still only spell disappointed with the help of my spellchecker)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685672</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=In ''The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer Things designed to life, the universe save us may kill us and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question is, rendering the answer meaninglessthings we think would kill us may save us. In ''Why Does the World Exist?'', Jim Holt explores potential answers Welcome to what could be considered the ultimate question modern study of life, the universe and everything – why is there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-twomicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Charles Fernyhough|title=Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the years, I've seen the human memory at its best and worst. I watched my Nan suffer with Alzheimer's Move on 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 of what I learned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668448X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]