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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Keith Laidler|title=Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Animals'' is described as a visual guide to the animal kingdom, but please don't think of it as a picture book as it's far more than that. Don't think of it as a coffee table book either – despite the fact that its size – midway between A2 and A3 – might tempt you to think that way. It's a journey through the complex diversity of the animal kingdom based on sound scientific principles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916004X</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Butterworth1787333175|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There arenYou Don't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all know, too, that the world's population growth is on a collision course with the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Wrangham |title=Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human |rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Humans are cooking apes. According Have to Richard Wrangham, mastery of fire and cooking of the food that resulted from it was at the root of human evolutionary development and ultimate success. Various factors have been proposed as the crucial stimulus which led to the appearance of the first recognisably human creatures: leaving aside divine intervention (be it from God, extra-terrestrials or future humans travelling in time), the candidates for what made our ancestral apes stand straighter and start growing brains range from socialised hunting Mad to chattering about kinship to eating seafood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682851</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWork Here|author=Alexandra Bruce|title=2012: Science or SuperstitionBenji Waterhouse|rating=3.5

|summary=The fuss about 2012 has not started just recently. The I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to feature Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the story was from a Yale professorNHS, in 1966humour and autobiography. We've also had prog rock bands named after Popol Vuh, 'You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the Maya creation myth. But as same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the crunch date work of December 21st, 2012 - the winter solstice that year - nears, it's becoming a very big story indeedpsychiatrist. Even though I did wonder whether it sounds absurd - the end of a 5,125-year long cycle of the Maya calendar, which started on August 13th, 3114BCE - or was judged acceptable to start then, when they came across be looking for humour in this concept setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a couple of thousand years into that periodperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. Surely they couldn't predict the future from their 'primitive' state with such accuracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934708283</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Stephen Baker|title=They've Got Your Number|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If you are in the slightest bit paranoid, worry that ''Big Brother'' is always watching or like to believe that you are not a number, but a free man (or woman), then this may not be the book for you, as it will do nothing to dispel any of those worries. If, on the other hand, you think 'the mathematical modelling of humanity' sounds like one of the sexiest things ever, and are chomping at the bit to learn more about it, then you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to say.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1788360702|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary='''BANG'''. That's the sound of copious urban myths being shot down. '''BANG'''. That's the sound of the old wives slamming the doorCharles, as their tales get revealed as baseless. '''CLICK'''. That's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as they get closed down. All noises come due to this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Robert Rowland Smith |title=Breakfast with SocratesEdzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=In For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'Breakfast with Socrates'critically assesses the Prince's opinions, subtitled A Philosophy beliefs and aims against the background of Everyday Life, former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith takes various elements the scientific evidence. There are few instances of a 'typical' day his beliefs being vindicated and provides insight into what an eclectic collection his relentless promotion of thinkers might treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to offer the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to make these mundane routines more interesting. After allapply evidence-based, as Socrates declared 'the unexamined life is not worth living'logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682371</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Hannam0192779230|title=God's PhilosophersVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: How the Medieval The Invisible World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Everybody knows that the Medieval people thought the world was flat and that it wasn't until Columbus proved otherwise that they found out it was a sphere. Everybody knows that the inquisition burned people at the stake for their scientific ideas and that Copernicus lived in perpetual fear of persecution. Everyone knows that the Pope banned human dissection and the number zero, and everybody is wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of SpaceIsabel Thomas

|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us 'Germs' seems to have become a [[The Comic Strip History of catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of potential to make you ill. In the World]]first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have now turned their attention provided a clear and accessible introduction to space. They explain to children everything from the origins world of the universe, to germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what ancient civilisations they thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering caused them and how the truth about planets, right up to current space missions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Ian Stewart thinking has been collecting mathematical curiosities, puzzles and stories since he was 14developed over time. He published his The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Cabinet which explains some of Mathematical Curiositiesthe trickiest concepts and you'' in 2008ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and hot on its success, he's sharing this second volume with ushow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682924</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Haregareth_steel|title=How To Make A TornadoNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Another year, another must-read book from I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the New Scientist. Wecompanion volume you've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick Olooking for. As a TV show the author would argue that 'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why Don't PenguinsAll Creatures' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O- after reading - I agree with him. He says that he'Hare|hamsters]]s written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. Now It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn's time to turn our attention to how to make a tornadot lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over the yearseating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Hoffman0241480442|title=Time (Big Ideas)Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=''Time'' is one of ''Big Ideas'' series of books aiming Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to revisit Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the greatest notions and concepts and to provide them with way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a modern summary and understandingvegan. The series strives It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cause people to think and debate, cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to reanimal-evaluate and doubtbased protein. Another It wasn''Big Ideas'' books deal with topics such t the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as ''Democracy'', ''Identity'' and ''Bodies''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680387</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Why Does E Equal mc Squared?A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=Why does E=mc² and why should we care? Two questions that every intelligent person should be able to answer, but IAlzheimer'll bet s is a disease that 95% couldn't. Brian Cox slowly wears away your identity and Jeff Forshaw explain this most famous sense of equations to the layperson in such a way that they won't need anything more complicated than Pythagoras' theorem to understand itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306817586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tadg Farrington|title=The Average Life of the Average Person|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Back in schoolI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, we would often bemoan the idea of 'average', saying that as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like being 'normal', if there were such a thing, who would even want to be it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being average. Exceptstatue 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.there Daniel Gibbs is by definition a whole lot worse than neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'average' – the exact same amount that is better than average, in fact. And that was the problem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard D Ryder0099551063|title=NelsonThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Hitler Spies and DianaSerial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, a navy officer of great renown, forever thrusting himself into the limelight, doing it because his mother passed away when he was nine? Was '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler overly affected by his father dying in a time of paternal disapproval, and a kind of Oedipal reaction to being the man in the house making him suffer when she herself died? And can Diana, Princess of Waleson psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.' parents' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Evalyn Gates|title=Einstein's TelescopeUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe|rating=4|genre=Popular Science |summary=Subtitled 'now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the Universe'' Gates' introduction to astro-physics and cosmology is everything that you would expect nature of such a bookpsychopathy. GatesIt' tries '''so''' hard s too easy to be readableassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, and mostly succeedsSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, but at the same timereal-life Hannibal Lecter, but the subject matter truth is well-nigh incomprehensible. Or maybe, that's just mehaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393062384</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Sutherland1849767343|title=IrrationalityCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The belief that humans are, essentially, rational dates to the Greek antiquity, title and although intellectual and philosophical fashions changed throughout the epochs, the capacity format of this book might lead you to reason and behave in think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a rational manner is often considered to be basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it's a defining characteristics hymn of mature humanitypraise to maths. Irrational behaviours have been seen as an evidence of psychiatric or otherwise pathology It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905177070</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian DunningB08B39QNRH|title=Skeptoid 2The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Brian Dunning ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the author responsible for a series of weekly podcasts debunking and analysing a variety of dubious, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent in the pop (and not so pop) culture. 'written word'Skeptoid 2'' is essentially a written version of those podcasts, a collection of fifty pieces of which many can be also read or listened to at his [http://skeptoid.com/ website].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Dan Gardner|title=Risk: I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Science and Politics Curious History of Fear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Picture Writer's Cramp'' by a world terrorised by just two wordsrather strange route. A civilised, healthy, wealthy world no less, in thrall I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to and under threat from two words. Not what those two words represent even, just the actual small phrase. It sounds ridiculous, but when I say those two words – as 'interesting'bird flu: I prefer the word 'painful' – and you've stopped laughing, you may well remember how but I have an interest in the panic started, way that hands work. An exploration of the non-existent worry was the biggest concern history of a problem which has defeated some of the western media best medical minds for some timethree-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and then it went away againthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain McCalman1776572858|title=Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=A look at Darwin's journey on The Beagle, as well as journeys by Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace. Darwin's Armada provides a broad overview that strikes a different tone to other books in How Do You Make a crowded market. Casual readers who usually steer clear of non-fiction will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737266X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBaby?|author=Jerry A Coyne|title=Why Evolution is TrueAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=This book should not be neededIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made.The theory of evolution has huge explanatory My mother was deeply embarrassed and predictive powers and it is also, philosophically, told me that she'd get me a wonderful one to behold: book about it shows . A couple of days later I was handed a unity of all living things and pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our human connection to them all; through the billions of years house before) and millions of generations, from the first bacteria to the human beings capable of understanding the story of life I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it unfolded on this planet''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, the story told by the evolution theory is an exhilarating one; possibly the greatest story ever told by sciencebut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199230846</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip BallDanny Dorling|title=ShapesSlowdown|rating=54|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=We are living in a time of rapid change, and we''Shapes'' re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is one volume of a new trilogy born out normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the author's 1999 book 'The Selfnext three-hundred-and-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature'some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in which he surveyed a range of contemporary scientific investigation into the extent of naturedetail why either we shouldn's patterning with examples taken from areas such t be as worried as plant growthwe are, mineralsor in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, shellsthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, desert sands, lightning, galaxies the rate of change in many things is slowing down and atoms. This book has been restructured the direction of change will in some cases go into the stand-alone volumes ''Shapes'', ''Flow'' and ''Branches'', with new material addedreverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199237964</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Gribbin and Michael WhiteLangford_Emily|title=Darwin: A Life in ScienceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=This straightforward Emily 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 likeable biography even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of Charles Darwin charts the evolution of his theories of evolutionlist were even numbers, while providing solid insights into but the man in the context of his upbringing, education other half was odd and family life. Importantly, it makes was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you want to read counted in threes which she called ''On the Origin of the Speciesthreeven''. (Actually, acting this confused me a little bit at first as they're a primer for subset of the ideas introduced in that famous volume.  ''Darwin: A Life in Science'' is pitched beautifully for the reader of popular science, yet gives plenty of signposts enabling future study. It also gives odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a very believable picture subset of Darwinthe even numbers, based on convincing evidence and without falling into florid psychological speculationbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391494</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Fara1910593508|title=Science: A Four Thousand Year HistoryApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=From Ancient Babylon This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the present dayMoon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Patricia Fara presents Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a definitive history story we know well and because of science. It's wide-ranging enough to cover simply everything you could hope it wouldthis, whilst being the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in-depth enough so that you gain a sufficient understanding of the science and blanks. These shortcuts are the people involved. It serves as a simple reference guide for only downside to the layperson - it's riddled with information, whilst also being perfectly readable as a 'biography of science'book. If you 've ever wanted to know anything about the history read a comic book adaptation of science, this is a film you will be familiar with the book for youslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. Patricia Fara was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks to Patricia Fara|interviewed by Bookbag]]This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019922689X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil deGrasse Tyson1999308719|title=The Pluto FilesLive Forever Manual: The Rise Science, ethics and Fall of America's Favourite Planetcompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson grouped the celestial bodies by type, rather than listing them under the arbitrary heading of For many years now I'planets'. This put Mercury, Venus, Earth ve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and Mars together in one groupthat so far, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus it was working out OK. Time has passed though and Neptune together in another, although I'm a great deal fitter and left poor little Pluto healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out in the coldof balance. His aim It was time to look for people to gain a greater understandingnew approach and as so often happens, rather than just knowing the namesreviewing gods brought me the book I needed. The result was widespread outrage amongst newspapers ''Live Forever Manual: Science, schoolchildren ethics and companies behind the public at large. It was a scientificallynew anti-sound position, and ultimately fuelled the International Astronomical Union to define what was and wasnageing treatments't a planet. The Pluto Files is a fascinating, educational and hilarious journey from Pluto's discovery, through its rise in public consciousness (by way of Disney), to seemed like the controversy about its planetary status, its ultimate downgrading, and the public's response answer to itmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael D Lemonick1847941834|title=The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the CosmosAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=No-one can ever look at the night skies above our heads as Galileo did. I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! The light pollution covering so much of our planet makes it impossible to see nearly as much as he might. ''Atomic Habits'' Conversely, he would have adored living is in a time such as ours – with the technology to show him so much he couldn't see, so much he daren't dream of. Sitting happily between those two extremes was William Herschellast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039306574X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sudhir VenkateshHoneyborne BlueII|title=Gang Leader For A DayBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=If youYou may well remember when the sticking of a number '2've ever wondered why young people join gangs, and what after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it's like was fully justified to bring up a family surrounded by armed drug dealershave something more. That has hardly been proven correct, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinating. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted but it has until recently almost been confined to learn by observing the poorcinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors and never in the University world of Chicagonon-fiction. In 1989, armed with a clipboard and If someone has made a questionnairenature series about, he visited the Robert Taylor Homessay, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a notorious housing project. Instead lot of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - 'How does it feel those these days) and wants to be black and poor?' by selecting from 'very badmake another, somewhat badwhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, neither bad nor good, somewhat good, very good', he finds himself held hostage overnight by members of the Black Kings, a crackenergy and the heft to demand follow-dealing gangups. And after five years in the making, at the behest of its charismatic local leader, JBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.T.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030917</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1783099593|title=13 Things That Don't Make SenseSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Did you know 96% 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the cosmos is unaccounted for? That workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the Pioneer probes seem mid-twentieth century to be violating the laws of physics? That we might have already found life on Mars? That aliens might have made contact with us? Ohpresent day. Reading it, and why do we die? Why do we have sex? (Hopefully not in feel that she has studied everything that order). Do we really have free will? ''13 Things That Don't Make Sense'' might not make complete sense of all these, but it'll certainly fascinate you as it explains these has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and other questionsthe Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978170</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Desmond and James Moore Campbell_Astra|title=Darwin's Sacred CauseAd Astra: Race, Slavery and An illustrated guide to leaving the Quest for Human Originsplanet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary=This probably wonSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you't be d better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only time you are told through 2009 there was a handy guide that could condense it would have been Charles Darwin's 200th birthday all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this year, and that it is 150 years since ''On The Origin of Species'' first appeared. This book however declares that second anniversary : An illustrated guide to be slightly of less importance, when you factor in leaving the biggest section of his evolutionary thinking Darwin left out of that book – that of human evolutionplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846140358</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus ChownAdrian_Sock|title=Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt YouSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=Classical physicsThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It's something I use for the mostabout 200 days of every year, was concerned with at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and reasonably good other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at explaining) mediumthe opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-scale phenomena: and still nowmurderer of women, as when they were discoveredTed Bundy, Newton's laws allow us who was into stealing credit cards to quite accurately predict behaviour fund his desire of roughly human-scale objectshaving a fresh pair every single day. Newton's laws and classical physics in generalOn which subject, fail when dealing with extremes the amount of them we create every year could stack to the largest freaking moon and the smallestmore. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, the fastest and the slowestwhich is plain stupid. I''Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You''m talking, as you can tell, subtitled ''A Guide to the Universe'' actually presents two revolutionary theories of modern physics: Quantum Mechanics which deals with the tiniest, atomic and sub-atomic scales and Einstein's general relativity which deals with the largest, cosmological scalehumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571235468</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Martin Germano_Eye|title=Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of PleasureEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=True It's happened to its titleme, ''Sex, Drugs and Chocolate'' is all about pleasure: sensual like as well as cerebralnot it has or will happen to you, low level and fairly innocent as well as orgiastically excessive and decidedly not-so-innocenttoo. It explores social as well as biological aspects I mean the receipt of pleasure and throughout certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the book correction needed to my vision to make me see with the historical, sociological intended clarity and anecdotal is interspersed with medical, physiological and psychologicalnormality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007127081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Tasler|title=The Impulse Factor: Why Some Of Us Play It Safe I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and Others Risk It All|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Nick Tasler works for TalentSmart®other problems, an American company which provides researchI've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, testing and training for I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the business world. The company's core business promotes Emotional Intelligencetime, but certainly benefit from on holiday, so whether impulsivity in decision-making is good or bad is an interesting sidelinewhen watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. The American edition has already won a Best Career Book of 2008 award, so my perception is And above and beyond that up-I've stared at – and-coming managers may find it useful in their personal development portfolio. A more general readership may find it less riveting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847374220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Lindstrom|title=Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy Is Wrong|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Considering got wrong – the amount simple, seemingly ageless test, of money spent on advertising and various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the staggering sizes of corporate marketing budgetsrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's astonishing not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to what extent it, and the cultural impact it's unclear what exactly those huge amounts of money buy. Lord Lever famously said that half of the money spent had are all on advertising is wasted these eye- but he had no way of knowing which halfopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940110</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowBall_Wonders|title=Cosmic ImageryWonders Beyond Numbers: Key Images in the A Brief History of Science All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|summary=John D. Barrow is one Like many people of the most passionate popularisers of science, and hea 's also one of the most noticeably filled with wonder and joy of the discovery and capable of transmitting this joy and wonder to his readers. 'certain age,'Cosmic Imagery'' is veritably filled with such wonder, and following the old adages I have fond memories of one picture being worth a thousand words and each picture telling a story, it's subtitled ''key images tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the history virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects '': each of the eighty nine essays making up the book indeed has an image as a starting pointfun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075233</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John D Barrow|title=100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know |rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=I love Although decades have passed since those collections classic TV shows, his latest book proves that appear at Christmas: '77 places to visit before you die', '39 facts you would never suspect about a Reliant Robin', '101 tips for making your wife a bedroom goddess...' Some he has lost none of these collections have not much utility beyond stocking-filling his passion and providing a mild diversion from the Boxing Day boredom, the best are genuinely educational as well as fascinatingenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920039</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George JohnsonYong_Contain|title=The Ten Most Beautiful ExperimentsI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong

|summary=''The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments'' looks at the most elegant, stylish, simple, ground-breaking, thrilling and inspiring experiments throughout historyworld you know is a lie. There's a real feel that this is how science should be done: one person, alone in a room, forming a hypothesis no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and creating a method health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to test itsave us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. It doubles as a potted biography of some Welcome to the modern study of the greatest scientists ever, but it's more about the experiments themselves than the peoplemicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224071963</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=P D Smith|title=Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon |rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Having dallied with the odd CND march back in the '70s-80s, and while not normally a huge sci-fi fan (yet inordinately fond of certain creaky films like The Day The Earth Stood Still - which as well as offering underwhelming special effects, grapples with huge ideas about the death of humankind) I found a great deal to enjoy in ''Doomsday Men'' and its history of weapons which may now be capable of entirely destroying the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141019158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)|title=On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition |rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=There are books I think you have to read, and there are books you have to read. This is one of the latter, and finally in a volume that goes a long way to making it one you have to own – with the approach to this classic making this edition the definitive one for a long time to come.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402756399</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under the auspices of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is, possibly in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted Move on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeed, on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Manjit Kumar|title=Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Two theories have shaped modern physics and thus our understanding of the world: quantum mechanics and general relativity. The relativity deals with huge scale systems and gravity - and works, while in the process creating its own well know paradoxes. Quantum mechanics applies at the atomic (and lower) levels. Of the two, it's the quantum mechanics that is - and has been - the most mind boggling for scientists and laymen alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310293</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]