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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1787333175|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo You Don't Have to the Mars Rover and Beyondbe Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Popular Science|summary=I take it as was tempted to read that you know some of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won'You Don't go into the extremes reached by the Have to be Mad to Work Here''Voyagerafter enjoying Adam Kay'' space crafts first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling a glorious mixture of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – insight into the gradual discovery workings of how curved the planet wasNHS, humour and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesautobiography. What you might not ''You Don't Have to be so genned up on is Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the history work of books conveying all this to a young audiencepsychiatrist. When I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a nipper they were stately texts, person and it is always delivered with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, empathy and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white pageunderstanding. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1788360702|title=Little PeopleCharles, Big DreamsThe Alternative Prince: Marie CurieAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst

|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=Some little girls want to be princessesFor over forty years, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and won a gold medal for her studiescomplementary therapies. In Poland''Charles, in The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the middle Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science studentscientific evidence. It was here that she met There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in reputation of a road accidentman who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, but Marie went on logical reasoning to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have lived my life determined not to 'Germs'age'': I see nothing aspirational in the dependence of old age, whether it be on other people, government in seems to have become a catch-all its forms or word to cover anything unpleasant which has the NHSpotential to make you ill. I'm prepared to put effort into this: it's not In the cosmetic image of youth I seek, but rather the ability first book in what looks to do as I do now - running be a businessvery promising new series, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and enjoying life - for as long as possibleaccessible introduction to the world of germs. So far it's working out, but We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what else could I do 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'whywhich explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'' does this work for some people ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and not for others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>how we should protect ourselves.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedtgareth_steel|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the MindNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating= 4|genre= Politics Animals and Society Wildlife|summary= I must confess that don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''A Woman LookingNever Work With Animals'' spoke it seems to me on be appropriate. Stories of a profound, intimate level. This vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is in part due to definitely not the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and also love science in companion volume you've been looking for. As a world which emphasises TV show the author would argue that these two passions are mutually exclusive. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman LookingAll Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and that a cohesivedistressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, inclusive approach towards art although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplineseating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Morris0241480442|title= Why Icebergs FloatHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Exploring Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science in Everyday Life|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceCookery|summary=This unusual science textbook is based on the meetings of Emotionally, I am a science discussion group who raise questions from their everyday lifevegan. The group's resident science expert Mentally, Andrew Morris, does I am a sterling job vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in trying to answer some of their most obscure a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and challenging issueswas appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, which range I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the physics of light and electricity odd blip with regard to brain chemistry and social anthropology. Each chapter is based around cheese but then a theme perfect storm of those events which grows from an observation made by a group member, such as you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn'what colour is t the blood in the body'' and ''why is taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the tide so far out at Blackpool''. This tieanimal kingdom -in to it was the reality ease of our lives, makes the science more interesting and somehow more usefulbeing able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911307037</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin BrownDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-BombTattoo on my Brain

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=WhatAlzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, do you think, was more feared in 1941 as have many. Your memories and 1942 than the Nazi Party? Well, personality worn away like a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on statue over time affected the listelements. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but I'm not so sure. A lot of the people to be at the forefront of the nuclear physics of the age were German, and the first nuclear fission was on their soil. Two things seemed to be needed for nuclear arms – uranium, which they procured by capturing Czechoslovakia, the location of one its greatest source mines; as if nature wants that final victory over you and heavy wateryour dignity. That so nearly fell into Nazi hands when they invaded Norway, but This is what seems to have been the great majority of the worldmakes Daniel Gibbs's supply had only just been smuggled outmemoir so admirable. [[Fatherland by Robert Harris|Some fiction]] takes great strides to suggest in Daniel Gibbs is a fantasy way that if Hitler hadn't concentrated on exterminating Jews, he would have had the energy to win the war – neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and it must only be a short step to see has documented his imperial expansionism as having an ulterior motive journey in nuclear materiel. But make no mistake, this is not fiction – these are the pure facts behind the issue''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445664674</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Stewart0099551063|title= Calculating the CosmosThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating= 34|genre= Popular Science|summary= In ''Calculating the Cosmos'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Ian Stewart attempts to explain how mathematics, a subject which strikes fear into  Until the hearts events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many, can be used to explain the wonders readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of the universe in a way which is accessible and understandable in a concise 352 pages. According to Stewart, Calculating the Cosmos takes its shock value but it does help us from the surface of the Earth to understand more about the outer reaches nature of the cosmos and from the beginning of time psychopathy. It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the end of Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the universe. Does he achieve this? As the author himself statesreal-life Hannibal Lecter, but the fun truth is in finding out so if you have any interest in mathematics, the universe and the complexities of space and time this may just that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be the book for youa good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jack Challoner1849767343|title= The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of LifeCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it've always been mesmerised by micros either about responsibility -worlds and the fact that or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the tiniest things are made up of even smaller intricate partsnumbers journey. The first time I saw It isn't: it's a picture hymn of a human cell, I was fascinated by its complexitypraise to maths. It''The Cell'' s about why maths is a visual marvel, filled with full-colour cell images taken by optical so wonderful and electron microscopes, using phase contrast, fluorescence and dark-field illumination to colour and differentiate the individual components. The detailed text that accompanies each image explains how cells begin, reproduce, protect themselves and come together you meet it in extraordinary ways to create complex everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisB08B39QNRH|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard|rating=3.54

|summary=''Welcome to Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the Museumwritten word'' it says on the front cover and . Icame to Michael Pritchard's ''ll admit that for the moment The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I was confused have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': Iprefer the word 'painful've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside have an interest in the covers, I knew where I wasway that hands work. One An exploration of the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is history of a problem which has defeated some of the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kewbest medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, but for me I was back in with the glasshouses at book being as much about the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - doctors treating the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis sufferers and illustrator Katie Scott the changing medical attitudes as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentproblem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford1776572858|title=This is Not How Do You Make a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity BookBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'This is Not d get me a Science Book'' explores book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the often-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cuttingbasics, glueing, twisting, colouring in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and shading in order to create a variety of at-home experiments I was told that are it wouldn't be discussed any further as entertaining as they are educationalit ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidays Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CoderDojoDanny Dorling|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeSlowdown|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=The Nanonauts want We are living in a website for their bandtime of rapid change, and who better to build we're worried about it for them than . Dorling tells us that the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs latter is normal, natural and probably good for young people? us. In this handbook, created in conjunction We are designed to worry and with the CoderDojo Foundation, children current state of seven plus will learn how what we're doing in the world we have much to build a website using HTMLbe worried about. However, CSS over the next three-hundred-and Javascript. Don't worry too much -some pages, if some of those words donyou can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the bookwrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits In fact, the rate of change in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - many things is slowing down and the benefits direction of teamworkchange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoLangford_Emily|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=54

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and who better there's no limit to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? 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. In this handbook, created Then she began counting in conjunction with threes: half of the CoderDojo Foundationlist were even numbers, children but the other half was odd and it was this list of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS and Javascriptodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Don(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they't worry too much if some re a subset of those words don't mean anything the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to you - all will be made clear as you read through the book. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms subset of harnessing creativitythe even numbers, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamworkbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State1910593508|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a websiteApollo|author=Matt Fitch, app & gameChris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=Learning This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life the Moon landings and the passion for today's children it's important because it opens so many doors. It might look complicatedthe subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, but all it required is concentration Chris Baker and - eventually - imaginationMike Collins. I had This is a reasonable mastery story we know well and because of this, the skills of basic HTML authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in three days with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to go if the book. If you don't have that privilege or if ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like will be familiar with the perfect answerslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Arabella Kurtz and J M Coetzee1999308719|title= The Good StoryLive Forever Manual: Exchanges on TruthScience, Fiction ethics and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapycompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= We For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live by stories. Novelists weave tales forever and that may or may not reflect realityso 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 that we accept as their job: to create fictions with intriguing character plots that draw inso often happens, surprise and touch the reader is at reviewing gods brought me the core of their job descriptionbook I needed. But story telling goes beyond profession ''Live Forever Manual: everyoneScience, writer or not, sometimes ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more consciously, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress others, and constantly weave together a story of who we are, a tale of identitythan just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett1847941834|title=Sea JournalAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Over the course of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although I'visits' might make what happens sound a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beachesve said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some further afieldbooks that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, in much the same way that a gardener knows their own plot. like, right now! She's aware of minute changes, how the phase of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect to find in the strandline and where it's come from. Atomic Habits'' She delights is in every variation of the weather and she's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths to up-to-the-minute sciencelast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig MartinHoneyborne BlueII|title= Shipping Container (Object Lessons)Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating= 34.5|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= This book is smallYou 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, not even 150 pages but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of texta numbered sequel, and more like 100 if you exclude never in the indexworld of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, references say, Alaska (and acknowledgements so perhaps itboy aren's unsurprising that it had to choose t there are a more limited focus. There is plenty still lot of those these days) and wants to learn from make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the booknumeral. The word 'dunnage' is used daily But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and everyone knows what it means (the stuff inside containers heft to protect contents from damage during transit) but it was interesting to learn demand follow-ups. And after five years in the origin of its use. Twist locks – making, the mighty strong connectors that can be used to link containers together – are also heavily featuredBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501303147</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tristan Gooley1783099593|title=How to Read WaterSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Signs are all around us, if we know where to look. The ability to read 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and interpret signs is particularly useful to navigators and those who make their living on the watershapes our notions of gender. In factIt looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the ability to read water can mean the difference between life workplace and death, especially when strong tidal currents are involvedpersonal relationships. Of course, there are those who take water-reading beyond the ability Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of even research from the most experienced sailors. Traditional Arab navigators called this knowledge mid-twentieth century to the ''isharatpresent day.'' Pacific islanders call Reading it ''kapesani lemetau''-, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the talk of the sea or water lore. Those who posses such knowledge have been baffling Westerners for centuries Kardashians with their seemingly preternatural ability to understand the waterequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Michael MarderDallas 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=Dust Sock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=''Dust'' is among the latest volumes in BloomsburyThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's fascinating new 'Object Lessons' seriesdaughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' to ''Shipping Container'It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, the books aim I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to explore think about) – which clearly puts me at the hidden histories opposite end of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University scale to well-known mass-murderer of the Basque Countrywomen, Spain. NeverthelessTed Bundy, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of skin cells and hairhaving a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the detritus amount of our human bodiesthem we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Thus dusting – the verb form – is Some idiots buy more than six pairs a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselvesyear, apparently, ultimately a futile and 'self-defeating occupationwhich is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cedric VillaniGermano_Eye|title=Birth of a TheoremEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=It''Birth 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 Theorem'' is a remarkable journey into positive or negative before them to prove the world of correction needed to my vision to make me see with the abstract mathematics that shape our lives intended clarity and existencenormality. When you first open I've had that gizmo that photos the book back of my eye to check for diabetes and flick through other problems, I've had different tests to check the pagespressure inside my eye, you are confronted and I've come away with complex formulas glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that disorientate the mind I've stared at – and defy got wrong – the understanding simple, seemingly ageless test, of anyone not versed various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the language of the mathematician. You realise relevant scientist at this point that you need a guide what stage things get blurry for your journey and there is none better that Cedric Vallinime. He is a winner of Of course, it's not ageless, but the Fields Medalscientific progress that led to it, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. A genius who has dedicated his life changes other people made to understanding it, and the most complex aspects of our world. He is also a writer gifted in conveying the elation and despair that his gift can bringcultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam GrantBall_Wonders|title= OriginalsWonders Beyond Numbers: How Non-conformists Change the World |rating= 4 |genre= Popular Science|summary=Did you know that procrastination could actually aid creativity? No? Neither did I, but it's a piece A Brief History of information that I shall embrace and wield in my defence from here on out, because Adam Grant says it is so. Filled with interesting snippets and fascinating cases, Originals is not just entertaining, but instructive as well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556979</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAll Things Mathematical|author=Ben Miller|title=The Aliens are ComingJohnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and citiesLike many people of a ''certain age, wait until it gets dark and then look into the night sky. If you are lucky enough for it not to be raining, you will likely see hundreds '' I have fond memories of stars tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the sky. Each one virtues of these could be a Sun just like maths and science; succeeding where our own schoolteachers had failed and each of actually making these Suns could subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have planets orbiting it. Now times this number a million fold and you can start to fathom the number passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of stars his passion and planets out there – surely the human race is not a complete fluke and there are aliens out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>enthusiasm for his subject.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens HarderYong_Contain|title=AlphaI Contain Multitudes: Directionsthe microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|genre=Graphic NovelsPopular Science|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literate. If The world you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will work. I know the book isn't designed to be a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novels, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed to be is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clancy Martin|title= Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other|rating= 3lie.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Lying There is wrong and the last people you would lie to willingly are the ones you love the most – or so you would like to think. In ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, and serial groom, sets out on a mission to disprove the central beliefs we hold with respect to, no more and no less than, our own morality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Wulf|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such thing as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, good or how it's all about the capture and killing of one animal by anotherbad microbes. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas Sickness and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not health are all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kima Cargill|title= The Psychology of Overeating|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= As a nation, we are not the same as we used to be. We eat far more, both as in more often and as in more of a serving size. And complex than we eat worsethought. Processed foods. Sugary drinks. It’s not really news. As a result, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure is higher, and our sugar levels are whoooosh. But it’s not just about the food. This book takes an in depth and incredibly interesting look at our lives as a whole, Things designed to show how the modern culture of consumerism shows up in every part of our day to day living save us may kill us and explains, to quite a significant degree, why many of things we think would kill us may save us are overeating and why it is so hard to stop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472581075</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marianne Taylor|title= I Used To Know That: General Science|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= This book got off Welcome to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one modern study of 'my' sciences without a nod to any of the other '-ologies' (or ''pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at school)microbes. Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that has already spawned [[I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]], [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] and [[I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among others. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>