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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett1787333175|title=Language: The Cultural ToolYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as 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 Hurt}}, a missionary in far flung corners glorious mixture of insight into the world– a fact that isn’t surprising given the number workings of references to faith that crop up over the pagesNHS, humour and autobiography. This new book, however, is about two much more appealing ( ''You Don't Have to me) subjects: language and travelbe Mad.. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer with an interest in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest in travel. It’s not quite '' promised the ‘read it by a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release same elements but is somewhere between a formalised every day read moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred inpsychiatrist. The travel stories – jaunts I did wonder whether it was acceptable to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clearthan a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey Masson1788360702|title=Dogs Never Lie About LoveCharles, The Alternative Prince: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone ElseAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=3.54|genre=PetsBiography|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a bookFor over forty years, looked at the title Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differentlycomplementary therapies. 'Dogs Never Lie About Love' is a statement Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the obvious to mescientific evidence. I've lived with There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and around dogs for most his relentless promotion of my life and I know that dogs are incapable treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of pretence. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like meman who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt logical reasoning to trick mehis ambitions. I only wish that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Damasio0192779230|title=Self Comes to MindVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Constructing the Conscious BrainThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=What makes us, us? How is awareness of one's own being created in Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the human mind? What makes ''me'' who got up this morning ''me'' that went potential to bed last night, make you ill. and In the same ''me'' that got up on most mornings first book in the preceding forty-odd years? How is it that we seewhat looks to be a very promising new series, remember OUP and understand things, other humans Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world in general? And who is doing of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the understanding? How is it that we are conscious thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of our own experiencesthe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how is it that we are conscious of should protect ourselves being conscious?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099498022</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D Barrowgareth_steel|title=The Book Of UniversesNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The idea 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'multiverse' - multiple universes existing alongside each other - is something science fiction and fantasy fans are fairly au fait withdefinitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. Parallel realities in which you made As a different decision at a pivotal moment andTV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as a consequence, have evolved in entirely different ways, have been fodder do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for authors, scriptwriters younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he'what if' musings for s written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some time, uncomfortable and distressing issues but recentlyit doesn't lack sensitivity, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriouslyalthough there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Mee0241480442|title=Higgs ForceHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=Nicholas MeeEmotionally, was I am a Senior Wrangler at Trinity Collegevegan. Mentally, Cambridge and having taken his PhD I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in Theoretical Particle Physics a Human-Shaped World by submitting his thesis on ''Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics Henry Mance]] and Geometry''was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, he is uniquely qualified to explain the mysteries of the Higgs forceI am not a vegan. He is also It worked for a fellow of while apart from the Royal Astronomical Society. Whereas other texts rapidly resort odd blip with regard to references cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to erudite constructs like animal-based protein. It wasn'nont the taste -zero expectation values', 'zz Dibosons' and 'BoseI know that I can get plant-Einstein statistics', Dr Mee provides an accurate account of based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the Geneva experiments with animal kingdom - it was the Large Hadron Collider, provides his readers ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with some insight into the character Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of eminent physicistsself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and furnishes personality worn away like a lucid account of current theoriesstatue 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. Included Daniel Gibbs is an exposition of the discovery of elements by Sir Humphry Davy to recent experiments to discover Peter Higga neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''s elusive particle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718892755</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart0099551063|title=17 Equations That Changed The WorldWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=''17 Equations That Changed the World'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.' takes us through the history of mathematics, from Pythagoras through Einstein's theory of relativy and chaos theory. It highlights the most influently equations, clearly explains them, and establishes the full ranges of breakthroughs they led to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)|title=Queen Until the events of the Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years and read January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many books about the subject, readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of the 'how its shock value but it does help us to..' or 'understand more about the science of… varietynature of psychopathy. But this book is a revelation as it genuinely tries It's too easy to celebrate beesassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, capturing the real 'feel' of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much sooner. For Siegel and Betz have collected a series of short articles, poems and essays not about the technique and science of the craftlife Hannibal Lecter, but about the purpose and 'soul' behind ittruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Skene1849767343|title=Escape from BubbleworldCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the thought The title and format of another this book assaulting population growth, western greed and reckless exploitation of the environment, take time might lead you to read the first chapter of Keith Skenethink that it's either about responsibility - or it'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this is as entertaining and amusing s a basic 1-2-3 book as you are likely to read for those just starting out on the subject, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science and fascinating exploration numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of what turns out praise to be less certain certaintiesmaths. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the non-scientific reading It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MaloufB08B39QNRH|title=The Happy LifeCurious History of Writer's Cramp: The Search for Contentment in the Modern WorldSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which Society is subtitled based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Marcus Chown|title=Solar System|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=With beautiful photographs I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the wonders word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the solar system, this is history of a gorgeous coffee table book problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy. Marcus Chown's descriptions are insome three-hundred-depth enough to warrant considered years seemed liked excellent background readingand so it proved, but if you're after a simple with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and casual flick through, you'll still find plenty to appealthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571277713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Forsyth1776572858|title=The EtymologiconHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=TriviaHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I like wordsasked how babies were made. Words are awesome My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. End A couple of. But days later I also like trivia. was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I like knowing things was told that perhaps other it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people don’ttalked about''. I ''knew'' more, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to thembut was little ''wiser''. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win Thankfully, and this one is so good I think we’ll times have to call it a win-win-winchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon BarnesDanny Dorling|title=Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsongSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=One of my best-ever auditory memories is waking up We are living in a tent to a dawn chorustime of rapid change, sung in the middle of Ireland in springand we're worried about it. It was a high-decibel effort Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and seemed to involve hundreds of birdsprobably good for us. I'm ashamed We are designed to say that I couldnworry and with the current state of what we't begin to identify re doing in the multitude of species I heard that morning. So I suppose I chose this book expecting it world we have much to be a field guide that could at long last help me get a handle on birdsongworried about. But However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it isnsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't yet another handbookbe as worried as we are, but a much more interesting book than or in some cases thatwe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, which I thought would make a great present for a new birdwatcherthings 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 change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595473</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=PredatorsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple 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 even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of humans they helped to dispatchthe list were even numbers, mosquitoes may be but the most deadly animals everother half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But did you know that if you take into account (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the success rate odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of huntsthe even numbers, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Leith1910593508|title=You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to ObamaApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=Over This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the years I've trained myself (fairly successfully) not to judge a book Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by its coverMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. I've added 'not judging This is a book by its title' to story we know well and because of this, the training, but what do you do when your first impressions of authors take a book - few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the title ''and'' blanks. These shortcuts are the cover - scream 'trivia'? Well, I put this one only downside to one side on the basis that it really wasnbook. If you't likely to be ve ever read a comic book which would interest me. Picking it up and looking at adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the contents was almost accidental - slight feeling that there are scenes missing and then I discovered that this book dialogue has been trimmed. This is a gold minegraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683157</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Grice1999308719|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over them. Even For many years now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddlerI's honey-dripping hand ve (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't knowhalf) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Byrne joked that I intended to live forever and Tom Cassidy|title=How to Save the World with Salad Dressing|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world is under threat from a manic Bond-type baddie. You, my friendly readerthat so far, are the only person with the smarts enough to save it. You'd better not be one of my less intelligent friends, because according to this book one needs a lot of physics-inclined lateral thinking to carry was working out the dangerous tasks aheadOK. You'll need to know about gravity and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and more to get through the puzzles here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Hayden|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives a brief explanation Time has passed though and discussion of each idea, and shows how through the ages philosophers have argued pretty much everything you could think of, much of which seems bizarre to the modern thinker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen H Segal|title=Geek Wisdom|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, but on the Big Bang scale although I'm probably more of a Leonard great deal fitter and healthier than a Penny. I was weaned on ''Star Trek '', chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as most people of my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 exam, and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same time, age there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but I've never seen were a ''Batman'' film, never read a comic book, never quite understood what all the ''Star Wars'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi is a religion, then this is the book that can fill me in one the stories, the parables, the rules, as it few nagging health problems which were, tipping my life out of geekdombalance. I had to have it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year has passed, and once again we're treated It was time to another offering from New Scientist's Last Word column. We've been here before, with [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|Penguins]], [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]], [[How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare|Elephants]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|Hamsters]]. Now it's time look for the orangutan to find out why he's orange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Crystal|title=The Story Of English In 100 Words|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Crystal is a god when it comes to language. I’ve known that since I was quoting him during English A Level, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask 'Why?' new approach and you need an answer other than 'Because'. This is his new bookas so often happens, but you don’t need a degree in linguistics to find it fascinating, and in addition to the intriguing revelations and chummy writing style, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas present.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Niall McCrae|title=The Moon and Madness|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=A reviewing gods brought me the book entitled ''The Moon and Madness'' has the potential to be a pile of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokum, and there is not a whiff of New Age hanging over itI needed. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds of lunatics in the asylum howling at the full moon. Of course, the very word 'lunatic' has its origins in the moon. McCrae tries to separate myth and fact in this fascinating book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John L Locke|title=Duels and DuetsLive Forever Manual: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Locke's subtitle ''Why Men , ethics and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another selfcompanies behind the new anti-help ageing treatments''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – seemed like the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out answer to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Connor|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=...In which our author considers the smaller, less noticeable items in our lives. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things are things that we allow and expect to do things back to us. Magical things all do more, and mean my problems - only you get so much more than they might be supposed tojust 101 tips." Principally these are the little flotsam that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our person, and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1847941834|title=Free RadicalsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding awayI've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, with small breakthrough after small breakthrough. When the big breakthroughs comesome books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, they downplay thingslike, and insist upon logical and level-headed caution. Itright now! ''s all very mild-mannered and polite. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals, whoAtomic Habits'll do anything for success. There are those who mercilessly put down their rivals, those who use drugs to stimulate their breakthroughs, those who put themselves in harm's way is in the pursuit of truth, and those who just plain go about things their own way, regardless of what anyone else sayslast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew WheenHoneyborne BlueII|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComBlue Planet II|ratingauthor=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=You know exactly what you're getting when you read the summary of Andrew Wheen's ''Dot-Dash To Dot.Com''. ''How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet'' sums it up perfectly. This is a history of technology James Honeyborne and the people involved in creating that technology. It serves as a primer for anyone with an interest or need to know about telecommunications.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441967591</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephanie Pain|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersMark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The history You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ..prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more.It's also filled with exploding trousersThat has hardly been proven correct, selfbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -experimentation, you barely got a coachman's leg that becomes TV series worthy of a museum piece numbered sequel, and gasnever in the world of non-powered radiosfiction. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science bookIf someone has made a nature series about, part triviasay, each article is Alaska (and boy aren't there are a treat lot of those these days) and wants to readmake another, either as a funwhy she just makes another -sized nuggetnothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, or when reading from cover the energy and the heft to coverdemand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonah Lehrer1783099593|title=Proust Was a NeuroscientistSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,'Time hath, my lord, Speaking Up' has a wallet fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivion'. This fully accords with the discoveries our use of modern brain science. Proust language in his famous novelmedia, 'In Search of Lost Time' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientistseducation, such as Rachel Hertzreligion, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly to the hippocampus. Thus the taste of a petit madeleine evokes a rediscovery by Proust of Combray workplace and a flow of associations - it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centredpersonal relationships. Lehrer in ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves Author Allyson Jule calls on an intriguing argument about encyclopedic body of research from the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries and mid-twentieth century to the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolfpresent day. A scientistReading it, who we feel that she has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], studied everything that has a taste for philosophyever been said on gendered linguistics; Lehrer intends to heal the rift between what C.P.Snow termed the 'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect to the truths she references Foucault and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and paintersKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lister-KayeCampbell_Astra|title=At the Water's EdgeAd Astra: A Walk in An illustrated guide to leaving the Wildplanet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating=35

|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly about, and one with which I must confess So… you want to having a love/hate relationship! I loved leave the detailed observation, planet? Before you do you'd better study the sharing whole history of knowledge human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study of the countrysidecould condense it all down for you. He delights in and pays as much attention Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the structure of a spider's web as to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcatplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartAdrian_Sock|title=Mathematics of LifeSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=Mathematics The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and biology donyet my partner't traditionally mixs daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. As science developsIt's something I use for about 200 days of every year, the boundaries between maths and physicsat a guess (well, physics and chemistry and chemistry and biology I have become more my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and more blurred. As it is nowother people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, biology requires many mathematical techniquesTed Bundy, and it's fair who was into stealing credit cards to assume that major biological breakthroughs over the next hundred years will also have fund his desire of having a strong basis in maths toofresh pair every single day. Ian Stewart looks at On which subject, the major steps forward in amount of them we create every year could stack to the history of biologyfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, and the areas where maths which is at plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the forefront of developmenthumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony JamesGermano_Eye|title=The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob BronowskiEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Jacob Bronowski was a scientific administratorIt's happened to me, poetand like as not it has or will happen to you, philosophertoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, dramatist, radio with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and TV personalityother problems, best remembered for I've had different tests to check the series pressure inside my eye, and I'The Ascent of Manve come away with glasses I don'. This short bookt need to wear all the time, about 90 pages longbut certainly benefit from on holiday, is partly biographical sketch, partly or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – in fact largely and got wrong – an overview the simple, seemingly ageless test, of his major published worksvarious letters in various configurations that diminish in size, occupying about two-thirds of to prove to the bookrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. In the authorOf course, it's wordsnot ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopher, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean CarrollBall_Wonders|title=From Eternity to HereWonders Beyond Numbers: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory A Brief History of TimeAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=4.5

|summary=The Prologue sets out what this book is about. ItLike many people of a 's about ' ... the nature of time, the beginning of the universecertain age, and the underlying structure of physical reality.' OK? Bring on those questions. Yes, it's a weighty tome in terms of size and subject matter, but I would certainly describe the front cover as reader-friendly, so therefore should have broad appeal. I love fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the title of this book, lots virtues of thought has been put into it maths and it certainly grabbed my attention - science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and Iactually making these subjects ''m no scientistfun. The classic movie from the '' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book ... I also loved Carroll's language - 'The Elegant Universe' proves that he has lost none of his passion and 'a preposterous universe' These are phrases to make you stop and think. And I certainly didenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687955</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland SmithYong_Contain|title=Driving with PlatoI Contain Multitudes: The Meaning the microbes within us and a grander view of Life's Milestoneslife|author=Ed Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=''Driving with Plato'' The world you know is a companion book to [[Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with Socrates]], in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines health are all far more interesting. Here, in the company of a similarly eclectic range of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school and riding a bike, to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a mid-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age and deathcomplex than we thought. Montaigne said that to philosophise was to learn how Things designed to die, save us may kill us and here Roland Smith ensures that things we think about each stage leading up would kill us may save us. Welcome to that momentthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mark Stevenson|title=An Optimist's Tour of the Future|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future we would soon be living in. In terms of technological advancement we're not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time for a revised view of what is Move on to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde|title=Sleights of Mind|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I have a passing interest in both magic and neuroscience. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladies, but I was also very keen to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and as a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed the [http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ Illusion of the Year contest[Newest Reference Reviews]]. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn and...) and Johnny Thompson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowing: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goes, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}