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|summary=My son 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 incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the minute I have found workings of the answer to one of his questionsNHS, another has formulated inside his head to replace ithumour and autobiography. I was delighted then, when ''You Don'Inventions in 30 Secondst Have to be Mad...'' arrived for me promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to review, as mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I saw did wonder whether it as was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a dose of much-needed respite from my endless researchperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Human Body in 30 Seconds1788360702|author=Anna Claybourne|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summarytitle=Our body is an amazing machineCharles, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneously. Even when we are sleeping, our body is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature and filtering waste. When we are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damage. When we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Gary Smith|title=Standard DeviationsEdzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Over the For over forty years I've regularly , Prince Charles has been infuriated by the way that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately to deceive usan ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. Politicians''Charles, journalists, academics all seem to fall into The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the trap with alarming regularity and I was tempted into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) that Prince'If you torture data long enoughs opinions, it will confess'beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale for seven years There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and is now his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a professor at Pomona College in California. His book man who is aimed at the layman rather than the academic proud of his refusal to apply evidence- does it hit the mark?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Mind ChangeVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Susan GreenfieldIsabel Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The year is 2014. The digital age is upon us and Greenfield seeks 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to explore what cover anything unpleasant which has the impact of its technologies might bepotential to make you ill. Heralding from In the discipline of neuroscience, Greenfield’s case, first book in shortwhat looks to be a very promising new series, is that the brain may be changing OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to meet the demands world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the digital twenty-first centurythinking has developed over time. Online mass-player games The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, digitally equipped classroomsfungi, electronic readers protists and viruses – and search-engines each challenge how the mind has traditionally socialised and learnedwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest MysteryNever Work With Animals|author=George JohnsonGareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=George Johnson, 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 science writer more comfortable in since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the fields of physics author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and cosmology, started his journey into cancer when his wife, Nancy, was diagnosed - after reading - I agree with a rare uterine varietyhim. He took says that he's written it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?)to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and how long it has been with useating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Psy-QHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligenceVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Ben AmbridgeNiko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=''PsyEmotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Q'' is a fun Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and interactive slice of 'Pop-Science' was appalled by the way in which delves into various psychology topicswe treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, with the aim of entertaining and enlightening the reader and debunking I am not a few myths along the wayvegan. Most of It worked for a while apart from the chapters are only odd blip with regard to cheese but then a couple perfect storm of pages long and include quizzes, personality profiles, experiments, optical illusions and the odd cheesy joke thrown those events which you hope don't occur too often in for good measureyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. The result is a readable, accessible and un It wasn't the taste -putdownable book I know that I managed can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to devour get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in an entire afternoona few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by SurpriseDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|authortitle=Michael BrooksA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science Autobiography|summary=Eleven Discoveries are introduced Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and explored in Michael Brooks’ At the Edge sense of Uncertaintyself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, spanning all from the expansion of epigenetics, the possibility of creating as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a hypercomputer, and statue over time affected the unveiling of the true elements. It seems as if nature of the universewants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Some of the hypotheses currently being investigated by our contemporary scientific community are baffling enough in themselves: Is our universe Daniel Gibbs is a hologram of an extra-dimensional universe? Are the mechanisms governing photosynthesis neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and human olfaction has documented his journey in fact one and the same? Just how well-established are animal personalities and cultures, if such exist? Is a human ‘will to live’ something which can be attributed to discernible biological responses and systems? Is time an illusion?''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251274</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0099551063|title=Earth The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in 30 Secondslife from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Anita GaneriDr Kevin Dutton

|genre=children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=As a former cataloguer of children’s books there are names that are synonymous with juvenile non-fiction, in my time the author Anita Ganeri has graced my work table 112 times'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. She is a prolific author and her legacy continues in the form of ‘Earth in 30 Seconds’, part of a series of books for 7-11 year olds that explore scientific principles in easy bite size pieces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Lazarus Effect|author=Sam Parnia|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=As part of my job, I assess junior doctors who want to specialise in General Practice at Until the end events of their two foundation years6 January 2021 that might have surprised, and this assessment takes the form of role plays where even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they play knew it all along. The statement has lost a doctor and respond to cues from an actor playing a patient/relative/staff member while I take notes and score them against competencies. Last year one little of the scenarios included explaining DNAR (do not attempt resuscitation) to a ‘relative’ and one rather memorable candidate said 'It doesn’t mean we let your mother die, its shock value but if she it does die, we won’t bring her back help us to life understand more about the way we might another patientnature of psychopathy. It'. The answer did not score well on what I was assessing (communication skills) but it stuck with me and I still tell it as a tale from time s too easy to time, along associate psychopathy with the story of the patient who tripped and fell on aYorkshire Ripper, ermJeffrey Dahmer, personal massage deviceSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, had to have it surgically removed…and then asked for it back. It’s relevant herethe real-life Hannibal Lecter, though, because what that wannabe GP was saying but the truth is that he had the power to bring people back from the dead. And that’s what this book is all abouthaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen1849767343|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=FantasyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The wizards title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworldnumbers journey. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (isn't: it's round for a start!) but they're still rather fond hymn of itpraise to maths. However, thereIt's a problem: the Church of the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine to it too about why maths is so wonderful and would like to claim how you meet it. A court case will decide the winner, a court case that will have a guest spectator. For Marjorie Daw (yes, like the nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just in timeeveryday life. What on Earth will happen next?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08B39QNRH|title=Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science Curious History of invasive speciesWriter's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Ken ThompsonMichael Pritchard

|summary=''Much of what passes for invasion biology Society is poorly supported hype.'' So says our author, and you can easily fall into agreeing with him after reading his book. In much the same way based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''Daily Mail'' et al have their own attitudes to immigrants of the human kind, so it would appear do many people have similar notions about immigrant species. And the end results might be much more damaging.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251746</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe|title=Island on Fire: I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The extraordinary story Curious History of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=IWriter's Cramp''m fascinated by volcanoes, by their uncontrollability and potential to disrupt way beyond their immediate environment and for years to come, but I've always struggled to find books which were accessible to someone without specialist knowledge - or at least more behind them than my very basic qualificationsa rather strange route. Like many people I have problems with my attention was drawn hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to Iceland when Eyjafjallajokull erupted as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the spring way that hands work. An exploration of 2010, not because the history of the plight a problem which has defeated some of the Icelanders best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and their livestockso it proved, but because of with the disruption it caused over book being as much of Europe, I'm afraid. I began to look at other volcanoes in Iceland - particularly Katla, reputed historically to erupt in conjunction with Eyjafjallajokull. It's likely that a full-scale eruption of Katla would cause even more disruption than its little sister - about the doctors treating the sufferers and then I started to look back at other eruptions in Iceland. The one which few people seem to know about is Laki - which might have been one of the triggers of changing medical attitudes as the French Revolutionproblem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Jake's BonesHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Jake McGowan-LoweAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My oldest son has wanted to be a palaeontologist since he mother was three deeply embarrassed and both boys are fascinated by how things worktold me that she'd get me a book about it. Last year my youngest saw some scientific anatomy drawings and begged for A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing morethan the basics, so in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I began looking for childrenwas told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''s books on skeletons, and anatomy. There are very few available and this looked the best by far I ''knew'' more, I spent two days searching not only British but American booksellers before noticing that the book had not been released yet - so sadly we were forced to waitwas little ''wiser''. It was worth waiting for though Thankfully, this book is truly one of a kindtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Age of AnxietyDanny Dorling|authortitle=Scott StosselSlowdown|rating=4.5|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Scott Stossel is anxious. There We are no two ways living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. He has been anxious Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for as long as he can remember, us. We are designed to worry and with dark recollections the current state of his turbulent childhood, what we're doing in the world we have much of which seems to have been spent nervously gazing be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out of in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the window wondering whether his parents were coming home or if wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they had died in a terrible accidentare. Then of course In fact, there was the sister who was very possibly an 'adult midget who had been trained to play rate of change in many things is slowing down and the part direction of a five-year-old girl' helping her colleagues (his parents) perform experiments on him before abandoning him. Clearly Stossel’s anxiety has been fuelled by a rather active imagination over the yearschange will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434019143</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Knowing, Doing, and Being: New Foundations for Consciousness StudiesEmily's Numbers|author=Chris ClarkeJoss Langford|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Man suffers from a regrettable lack of a ’hotline to reality’, or to Emily found words ''noumenonuseful'', but counting was what she loved best. In order Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to give how far you can go, but then Emily moved a relatively faithful rendition step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of realitythe list were even numbers, however, people use two aspects but the other half was odd and it was this list of consciousnessodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. By researchers (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they've been termed the relational and the propositional. A number of thinkers from re a number subset of fields propose that the structure odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of consciousness may be unveiled using the tool of quantum physicseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845404556</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor PenguinsApollo|author=Gavin FrancisMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=I know two books don't make This incredible graphic novel is a genre, but twice in recent years I have read autobiographical travelogues of men who felt too much was going on in their lives love letter to the Moon landings and their surroundings, and took themselves the passion for the subject drips off to remoteevery Apollo by Matt Fitch, isolated, extremely cold Chris Baker and inhospitable placesMike Collins. One went to the shores This is a story we know well and because of Lake Baikalthis, and shared his days hunting, fishing, drinking and reading with only the authors take a few very distant neighboursnarrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. Gavin Francis took himself south, These shortcuts are the only downside to the edge of the Antarctic ice, to spend a year as a scientific doctorbook. He wasnIf you't able to be completely as alone as some have been in the past – even if he hid himself away in isolation before the week-long annual changeover of staff was through. Francis ends up with ve ever read a baker's dozen comic book adaptation of companions, in a place where – apart from the ice, sealing things up – only two lockable doors exist. You might think this was a large group of people for someone wanting to film you will be alone, but familiar with the very tenuous slight feeling that there are scenes missing and isolated feel of the place in the huge emptiness of the landscape that dialogue has been trimmed. This is the main point of this book – a graphic novel that, could easily have been three times as long and communing with emperor penguins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>still felt too short.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=What If Einstein Was Wrong?Live Forever Manual: Asking Science, ethics and companies behind the Big Questions About Physicsnew anti-aging treatments|author=Brian CleggAdrian Cull|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'What if Einstein Was Wrong?'' is m a beautifully presented book written by great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a team few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of scientific experts attempting balance. It was time to answer some of look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the most intriguing book I needed. ''What If?'' questions about physics, cosmologyLive Forever Manual: Science, technology ethics and relativity. The result is an accessible storehouse of information, written in user-friendly format, which can be dipped into from time to time whether it be to impress friends at dinner parties, or simply to find out companies behind the answers to longnew anti-burning questions like: ageing treatments''What if You Could Journey Into seemed like the Past?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400451</amazonuk>answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.

 {{newreview|title=Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer|author=Ray MonkFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Biography|summary=Thinking back to the early 1960s, Bertrand Russell, the subject of another prize winning biography by Ray Monk, was frequently seen on black and white television declaring his concerns over Nuclear Weapons. He stated, 'Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.' For nearly seventy years, mankind has wondered in the words of Sting, 'How can I save my boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?' As concerns about nuclear proliferation in relation to Iraq, Pakistan and North Korea escalate it is salutary to return to a thorough biography of the man, known as the father of the bomb, that felt a deep and urgent need to be at the centre and to belong, J Robert Oppenheimer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099433532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1847941834|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious DiseaseAtomic Habits|author=John RhodesJames Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=In 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 End of PlaguesAtomic Habits'', the remarkably clear voice of immunologist John Rhodes takes one through significant moments in man’s battle against infectious diseases. The artillery on which Rhodes focuses is that of the vaccine, which has taken us further away from the extreme grip infections once had on the course of history. The book starts with the example of smallpox, for which Edward Jenner first made a vaccine, having been in a world where variolation was on the riselast category. Between Jenner’s first serum transfer – from an immune milkmaid to a servant’s son – and the present day, several vaccines have been developed against ailments such as measles, various influenzas, and polio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278528</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=What a Wonderful WorldBlue Planet II|author=Marcus ChownJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=We all wonder about You may well remember when the Big Stuff at one time or another. How does sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the brain work? How does electricity actually get into our homes and power stuff? Who thought first film had been so good it was sensible fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a soft cheeseTV series worthy of a numbered sequel, a Ferengi and an elementary particle all share never in the same name? Because that’s not at all confusingworld of non-fiction. Rather than just think If someone has made a nature series about , say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these thingsdays) and wants to make another, Marcus Chown has decided to examine and explore themwhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and share his researchthe heft to demand follow-ups. Or, as And after five years in the subtitle puts itmaking, this is 'One man’s attempt to explain the big stuffBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571278396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783099593|title=The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985Speaking Up|author=Donna J DruckerAllyson Jule

|summary=I'll start bluntly – this is Speaking Up' has a very academic, specialised tome, fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and is not really for the curious reader to flick throughshapes our notions of gender. Given thatIt looks at our use of language in media, you probably can work out exactly what this book is likeeducation, and therefore move on from this reviewreligion, but should you stay with me you'll find that if you didn't know much about sex research equipment then the subject might actually manage to fire a curious synapse workplace and leave you with some interestpersonal relationships. It is, after all, not a topic to be ignored easily – as I read and write about this book in September 2013 I'm weeks away Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from Channel 4 making one of the featured scientists a historical figure in a drama, which is only part of a season that controversially includes something like mid-twentieth century to the science of fifty years ago – namely filming copulating couplespresent day. ConverselyReading it, if you did know something we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the topic, this book will be on your shelves quite imminentlyKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9400770634</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets of information but in the flow of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches the cheese course - definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing the Enemy''.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCampbell_Astra|title=SpilloverAd Astra: Animal Infections and An illustrated guide to leaving the Next Human Pandemicplanet|author=David QuammenDallas Campbell

|summary=So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you''We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by d better study the ubiquity and abundance whole history of our human bodiesspace flight to get up to speed.'' This is That could take a while… if only there was a salient fact taken away from David Quammen's ''Spillover''handy guide that could condense it all down for you. The entire Enter Dallas Campbell with this book is a most trenchant eye-opener : An illustrated guide to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are ''zoonoses'', 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'leaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War AmericaFrontpage|authorisbn=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J Dober|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=If I told you that doctors had been using human beings in the most horrible of medical experiments, that they had done things like tie toddlers to beds to insert live pathogens into their eyes, injected children with radiation, sterilised those thought to be subhuman and even castrated a child just to get a supply of tissue for a lab experiment, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germany. I am not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAdrian_Sock|title=God Versus Particle Physics: A No-Score DrawSock (Object Lessons)|author=John DaviesKim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner''God Versus Particle Physics: A No Score Draw'' is a bolds daughter has been employed for several years designing it, witty and undoubtedly controversial book that questions our blind faith in scienceor them. DaviesIt's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a psychologistguess (well, analyses I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the subject in detail, creating some interesting and convincing arguments concluding that some opposite end of the latest theories in the realm scale to well-known mass-murderer of physics seem women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to border on the metaphysical, lacking any kind fund his desire of demonstrable proofhaving a fresh pair every single day. He reasons that many On which subject, the amount of the arguments used by prominent atheists, demanding evidence that God exists, can also be applied them we create every year could stack to ideas such as the Big Bangfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, parallel universesapparently, dark matter and the Higgs Bosonwhich is plain stupid. I'm talking, ironically known as you can tell, of the ''God particle''humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405587</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Germano_Eye|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Joseph NiggWilliam Germano

|summary=A confessionIt's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. When reading hardbacks I take mean the paper cover, if there is one, offreceipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to keep it pristinemake me see with the intended clarity and normality. Sometimes thereI's a second benefitve had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneathI've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, or suchlike. But and I've come away with this book glasses I wondon't be aloneneed to wear all the time, for the cover folds out into an amazing artworkbut certainly benefit from on holiday, such as has only two extant original copiesor when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. ItAnd above and beyond that I's a coloured replica of a large map of ve stared at – and got wrong – the northern seas and Scandinaviasimple, dating from 1539seemingly ageless test, and is of various letters in various configurations that diminish in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where size, to prove to the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes fromrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Its creatorOf course, Olaus Magnusit's not ageless, followed but the scientific progress that led to it up years later with a commentary of all , the sea creatures he drew on changes other people made to it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate and the cultural impact it's had are all on both together, in such a lovely fashionthese eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Roberts and Shelley EvansBall_Wonders|title=The Book of FungiWonders Beyond Numbers: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The WorldBrief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=Fungi are the fifth order Like many people of the natural kingdom and it’s estimated that there are approximately one and a half million species''certain age, found throughout '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the world. ‘’The Book of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred virtues of the known fungi maths and each is pictured at its actual size in full colour science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and there’s a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, formactually making these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, spore colour and edibility. The tone of the his latest book is academic but don’t let this put you off - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted to knowing proves that it was better to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached to the structure inside - and I found it interesting, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) he has lost none of his passion and accessibleenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=Paralysed with FearI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Gareth WilliamsEd Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=Gareth Williams, author of ''Angel of Death'', turns his focus from the history of the plague to that of polio in ''Paralysed with Fear''The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. From the first report of a case in 1700-Strasbourg, right through Things designed to polio in the present day, he traces polio’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries save us may kill us and geographical bordersthings we think would kill us may save us. Almost more intriguing, though, is the insight we receive Welcome to the cut-throat competition between scientists who sought to use polio as a means for making historymodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137299754</amazonuk>