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|author=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer

|title=The Street Beneath My Feet

|rating=5

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a book. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

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|author= Lucy Jones

|summary= Lying is wrong and the last people you would lie to willingly are the ones you love the most – or so you would like to think. In ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, and serial groom, sets out on a mission to disprove the central beliefs we hold with respect to, no more and no less than, our own morality.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Andrea Wulf~~

~~|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>~~

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