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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Druin Burch1787333175|title=Taking the MedicineYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|summary=In 1898I 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 Hurt}}, Burch points out that a new drug was developed and marketed for glorious mixture of insight into the treatment workings of tuberculosis by Bayer & Cothe NHS, humour and autobiography. TB is such an ancient enemy of man that there is apparently evidence of an earlier strain ''You Don't Have to be found in Egyptian mummiesMad... The German firm had discovered a chemical that seemed '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work well, and patients and indeed their own staff, who were tested of a psychiatrist. seemed I did wonder whether it was acceptable to respond well - be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it was named Heroin - is always delivered with empathy and its addictive effects were at first missedunderstanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951506</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Scruton1788360702|title=I Drink Therefore I AmCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=3.54|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Roger Scruton is a conservative philosopher and composerFor over forty years, best known for his work on philosophy Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and musiccomplementary therapies. ''Charles, but who shares PlatoThe Alternative Prince's belief that 'nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by critically assesses the gods to manPrince' s opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and in this book seeks to combine his two interests relentless promotion of philosophy and treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the fruits reputation of the vinea man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Laidler0192779230|title=AnimalsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Animals'' is described as seems to have become a visual guide catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the animal kingdomfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, but please don't think OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of it as a picture book as it's far more than thatgerms. Don't think of it as a coffee table book either – despite We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the fact that its size – midway between A2 and A3 – might tempt you to think that waythinking has developed over time. ItThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's speak like a journey through the complex diversity scientist' which explains some of the animal kingdom based on sound scientific principlestrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916004X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Butterworthgareth_steel|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=3.54|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=There arenI don't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' itseems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's therelife have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. We all know, tooAs a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the world's population growth book is on a collision course not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with the dwindling of its resourceshim. The worldHe says that he's going written it to get hotterinform and provoke thought, its weather more extremeparticularly amongst aspiring vets. Fossil fuels It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and fewer of civilisation's luxurieseating. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Wrangham 0241480442|title=Catching FireHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: How Vegan Cooking Made Us Human Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=Humans are cooking apesEmotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. According I read [[How to Richard Wrangham, mastery of fire Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and cooking of was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food that resulted . Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from it was at the root odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of human evolutionary development and ultimate success. Various factors have been proposed as the crucial stimulus those events which led you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the appearance of taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the first recognisably human creatures: leaving aside divine intervention (be animal kingdom - it from God, extra-terrestrials or future humans travelling in time), was the candidates for what made our ancestral apes stand straighter and start growing brains range from socialised hunting ease of being able to chattering about kinship to eating seafoodget sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682851</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexandra BruceDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=2012: Science or SuperstitionA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=The fuss about 2012 has not started just recently. The first book to feature the story was from a Yale professor, in 1966. We've also had prog rock bands named after Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth. But as the crunch date of December 21st, 2012 - the winter solstice that year - nears, itAlzheimer's becoming is a very big story indeeddisease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. Even though it sounds absurd - the end of a 5I have been directly affected by this cruel disease,125-year long cycle of the Maya calendar, which started on August 13th, 3114BCE - or was judged to start then, when they came across this concept a couple of thousand years into that periodas have many. 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 memories and personality worn away like to believe that you are not a number, but a free man (or woman), then this may not be statue over time affected the book for you, elements. It seems as it will do nothing to dispel any of those worries. If, on the other hand, if nature wants that final victory over 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 your dignity. This is what Business Week journalist Baker has to saymakes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Aaron Carroll Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and Dr Rachel Vreeman|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary='''BANGhas documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'. That's the sound of copious urban myths being shot down. '''BANG'''. That's the sound of the old wives slamming the door, 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith 0099551063|title=Breakfast with SocratesThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=In ''Breakfast with Socrates'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits', subtitled A Philosophy of Everyday Life, former claims Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith takes various elements of a 'typical' day and provides insight into what an eclectic collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interestingUniversity researcher. After all, as Socrates declared 'the unexamined life is not worth living'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682371</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=James Hannam|title=God's Philosophers: How Until the Medieval World Laid the Foundations events of Modern Science|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Everybody knows 6 January 2021 that the Medieval people thought the world was flat and that it wasnmight have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they't until Columbus proved otherwise re probably convinced that they found out knew it was all along. The statement has lost a sphere. Everybody knows that the inquisition burned people at little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the stake for their scientific ideas and that Copernicus lived in perpetual fear nature of persecutionpsychopathy. Everyone knows that It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Pope banned human dissection and Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the number zeroreal-life Hannibal Lecter, and everybody but the truth is wrongthat having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310706</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1849767343|title=The Comic Strip History of SpaceCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=Sally Kindberg The title and Tracey Turner treated us format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a [[The Comic Strip History of basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of the World]], and have now turned their attention praise to spacemaths. They explain to children everything from the origins of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth It's about planets, right up to current space missionswhy maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartB08B39QNRH|title=Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Ian Stewart has been collecting mathematical curiosities, puzzles and stories since he was 14. He published his ''Cabinet The Curious History of Mathematical Curiosities'' in 2008, and hot on its success, heWriter's sharing this second volume with us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682924</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Mick O'Hare|title=How To Make A TornadoMichael Pritchard

|summary=Another year, another must-read book from the New Scientist. We've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|hamsters]]. Now it's time to turn our attention to how to make a tornado, and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eva Hoffman|title=Time (Big Ideas)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Time'' Society is one of ''Big Ideas'' series of books aiming to revisit based on speech but civilisation requires the greatest notions and concepts and to provide them with a modern summary and understanding. The series strives to cause people to think and debate, to re-evaluate and doubt. Another ''Big Ideas'' books deal with topics such as ''Democracy'', ''Identity'' and ''Bodieswritten word''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680387</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw|title=Why Does E Equal mc Squared?|rating=4I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Why does E=mc² and why should we care? Two questions that every intelligent person should be able I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to answer, as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I'll bet have an interest in the way that 95% couldn'thands work. Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw explain this most famous An exploration of equations to the layperson in such history of a way that they won't need anything more complicated than Pythagoras' theorem to understand problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so itproved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306817586</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tadg Farrington1776572858|title=The Average Life of the Average PersonHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Back in school, we would often bemoan the idea of It'average', saying s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that like being 'normalshe', if there were such d get me a thing, who would even want to be book about it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being average. Except...there is by definition A couple of days later I was handed a whole lot worse pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than 'average' – the exact same amount that is better than averagebasics, in factclinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. And that I ''knew'' more, but was the problemlittle ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard D RyderDanny Dorling|title=Nelson, Hitler and DianaSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, We are living in a navy officer time of great renownrapid change, forever thrusting himself into the limelight, doing and we're worried about it because his mother passed away when he was nine? . Was Hitler overly affected by his father dying in a time of paternal disapprovalDorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and a kind of Oedipal reaction probably good for us. We are designed to being worry and with the man current state of what we're doing in the house making him suffer when she herself died? world we have much to be worried about. And However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can Dianafollow the arguments, Princess of Walesit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn' parentst be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer re worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of borderline personality disorder?change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evalyn GatesLangford_Emily|title=EinsteinEmily's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the UniverseNumbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Popular Science Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Subtitled Emily found words ''The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universeuseful'' Gates, but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there' introduction s no limit to astro-physics and cosmology is everything that how far you would expect of such can go, but then Emily moved a bookstep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. GatesThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ' tries 'threeven''so. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they''' hard re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be readable, and mostly succeedsa subset of the even numbers, but at the same time, the subject matter is it all worked out well-nigh incomprehensible. Or maybe, that's just mewhen I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393062384</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Sutherland1910593508|title=IrrationalityApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=The belief that humans are, essentially, rational dates This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Greek antiquity, Moon landings and although intellectual and philosophical fashions changed throughout the epochspassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the capacity to reason Chris Baker and behave in a rational manner is often considered to be a defining characteristics of mature humanityMike Collins. Irrational behaviours have been seen as an evidence of psychiatric or otherwise pathology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905177070</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Dunning|title=Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena |rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Brian Dunning This is the author responsible for a series of weekly podcasts debunking story we know well and analysing a variety because of dubiousthis, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the pop (and not so pop) cultureblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you''Skeptoid 2'' is essentially ve ever read a written version comic book adaptation of those podcasts, a collection of fifty pieces of which many can film you will be also read or listened to at his [http://skeptoidfamiliar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed.com/ website]This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Gardner1999308719|title=RiskLive Forever Manual: The Science , ethics and Politics of Fearcompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Picture a world terrorised by just two words. A civilised, healthy, wealthy world no less, in thrall For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and under threat from two wordsthat so far, it was working out OK. Not what those two words represent even, just the actual small phraseTime 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 sounds ridiculous, but when I say those two words – ''bird flu'' – was time to look for a new approach and you've stopped laughingas so often happens, you may well remember how the panic started, reviewing gods brought me the non-existent worry was the biggest concern of the western media for some time, and then it went away againbook I needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Iain McCalman|title=Darwin ''s ArmadaLive Forever Manual: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans Science, ethics and Their Battle for companies behind the Theory of Evolution|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=A look at Darwinnew anti-ageing treatments'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 seemed like the answer to other books in a crowded market. Casual readers who usually steer clear of nonmy problems -fiction will enjoy itonly you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737266X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Jerry A Coyne|title=Why Evolution is True|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This book should not be needed.The theory of evolution has huge explanatory and predictive powers and it is also, philosophically, a wonderful one to behold: it shows a unity of all living things and our human connection to them all; through the billions of years and millions of generations, from the first bacteria to the human beings capable of understanding the story of life as it unfolded on this planet, the story told by the evolution theory is an exhilarating one; possibly the greatest story ever told by science. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199230846</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ball1847941834|title=ShapesAtomic Habits|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Shapes'' is one volume of a new trilogy born out of the author's 1999 book 'The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature', in which he surveyed a range of contemporary scientific investigation into the extent of nature's patterning with examples taken from areas such as plant growth, minerals, shells, desert sands, lightning, galaxies and atoms. This book has been restructured into the stand-alone volumes ''Shapes'', ''Flow'' and ''Branches'', with new material added.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199237964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Gribbin and Michael White|title=Darwin: A Life in ScienceJames Clear

|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=This straightforward I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and likeable biography of Charles Darwin charts the evolution of his theories of evolution, while providing solid insights some books that drop into the man in the context of his upbringing, education and family your life. Importantly, it makes because you want to really MUST read ''On the Origin of the Species''them, like, acting as a primer for the ideas introduced in that famous volume. right now!  ''Darwin: A Life in ScienceAtomic Habits'' is pitched beautifully for in the reader of popular science, yet gives plenty of signposts enabling future study. It also gives a very believable picture of Darwin, based on convincing evidence and without falling into florid psychological speculationlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391494</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia FaraHoneyborne BlueII|title=Science: A Four Thousand Year History|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=From Ancient Babylon to the present day, Patricia Fara presents a definitive history of science. It's wide-ranging enough to cover simply everything you could hope it would, whilst being in-depth enough so that you gain a sufficient understanding of the science and the people involved. It serves as a simple reference guide for the layperson - it's riddled with information, whilst also being perfectly readable as a 'biography of science'. If you ever wanted to know anything about the history of science, this is the book for you. Patricia Fara was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks to Patricia Fara|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019922689X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlue Planet II|author=Neil deGrasse Tyson|title=The Pluto Files: The Rise James Honeyborne and Fall of America's Favourite PlanetMark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson grouped You may well remember when the celestial bodies by type, rather than listing them under the arbitrary heading sticking of a number 'planets2'. This put Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars together in one group, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune together in another, and left poor little Pluto out in after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the cold. His aim first film had been so good it was for people fully justified to gain a greater understanding, rather than just knowing the nameshave something more. The result was widespread outrage amongst newspapersThat has hardly been proven correct, schoolchildren and but it has until recently almost been confined to the public at large. It was a scientificallycinema -sound position, and ultimately fuelled the International Astronomical Union to define what was and wasn't you barely got a planet. The Pluto Files is TV series worthy of a fascinatingnumbered sequel, educational and hilarious journey from Pluto's discovery, through its rise never in public consciousness (by way of Disney), to the controversy about its planetary status, its ultimate downgrading, and the public's response to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065200</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael D Lemonick|title=The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding world of the Cosmos|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Nonon-one can ever look at the night skies above our heads as Galileo didfiction. The light pollution covering so much of our planet makes it impossible to see nearly as much as he might. ConverselyIf someone has made a nature series about, he would have adored living in a time such as ours – with the technology to show him so much he couldn't seesay, so much he darenAlaska (and boy aren't dream there are a lot of. Sitting happily between those two extremes was William Herschel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039306574X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sudhir Venkatesh|title=Gang Leader For A Day|rating=5|genre=Politics these days) and Society|summary=If you've ever wondered why young people join gangs, and what it's like wants to bring up a family surrounded by armed drug dealersmake another, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinatingwhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted to learn by observing But some nature programmes do have the poorprestige, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the University of Chicago. In 1989making, armed with a clipboard and a questionnaire, he visited the Robert Taylor Homes, a notorious housing project. Instead of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - BBC'How does it feel to be black and poor?' by selecting from 'very bad, somewhat bad, neither bad nor good, somewhat good, very good', he finds himself held hostage overnight by members of the Black Kings, s Blue Planet series has delivered a crack-dealing gang, at the behest of its charismatic local leader, J.Tsecond helping.|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

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|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 to test it. It doubles as a potted biography of some of the greatest scientists ever, but it's health are all far more about the experiments themselves complex than the people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224071963</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P D Smith|title=Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon |rating=4we thought.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 Things designed to enjoy in ''Doomsday Men'' and its history of weapons which save us may now be capable of entirely destroying the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141019158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Darwin kill us 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 things we think you have to read, and there are books you have to readwould kill us may save us. This is one of the latter, and finally in a volume that goes a long way Welcome 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 modern study of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is, possibly in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted 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 boxesmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>