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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Marsh1787333175|title=Admissions: A Life in Brain SurgeryYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories insight into the workings of Lifethe NHS, Death humour and Brain Surgery]] autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the memories have stayed with mework of a psychiatrist. I had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I did wonder whether it was taking my pleasures too sadly, acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the book was superb - laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and very easy reading understanding. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and when I heard about complementary therapies. ''AdmissionsCharles, The Alternative Prince'' I decided critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to treat myself the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to an audio downloadapply evidence-based, particularly as Henry Marsh was narratinglogical reasoning to his ambitions. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603866</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley0192779230|title=First Science EncyclopediaVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=I wasn't introduced Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to 'science' until I was eleven and went on cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too latemake you ill. ThankfullyIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, times OUP and Isabel Thomas have changed provided a clear and children accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms how people originally thought about diseases and molecules what they thought caused them and even outer space from a very young agehow the thinking has developed over time. WhatThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's needed is speak like a good, basic reference book scientist' which will introduce all explains some of the subjects trickiest concepts and give a good grounding. It needs to you'll soon be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anders Ericsson and Robert Poolgareth_steel|title= Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary thingsNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating= 4|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Most I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of us a vet's life have had proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the experience of watching a game at Wimbledon, or hearing a concert pianist, or reading about companion volume you've been looking for. As a new world record for TV show the youngest chess Grandmaster, and daydreamed about ourselves in author would argue that position. Except, we invariably tell ourselves, that isn't possible because we were always beaten in school tennis matches, we didn't start piano lessons until we were twelveAll Creatures'' lacked realism, and we were never pushed by our parents to play chessas do other similar programmes. Peak is a supremely optimistic – which Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to say unscientific – ode to practiseinform and provoke thought, and the idea that particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with the right amount some uncomfortable and right sort of practisedistressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, almost anyone can achieve almost anythingalthough there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Crystal0241480442|title= Healthy Vegan The Story of BeCookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceCookery|summary= David Crystal is something of Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a torchbearer when it comes vegan. I read [[How to popularizing linguistics Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the UKway in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. He churns out material about language It worked for a general audience at steady pace: he has covered everything while apart from the history odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of English those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to how Shakespearean drama animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was actually pronounced the ease of being able to how language is used get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in an internet context. Given his previous grand themes, it is perhaps surprising that Crystal has now picked something rather more inconspicuous to present: the verb ''be''a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0198791097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marcus ChownDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= The Ascent of GravityA Tattoo on my Brain|rating= 43.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=Evidence for gravitational waves was picked up Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) in 2015this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a hundred years after Einstein predicted their existencestatue over time affected the elements. As the book says 'a good case can be made It seems as if nature wants that the discovery of gravitational waves final victory over you and your dignity. This is the most important development in astronomy since the invention of the telescope in 1608what makes Daniel Gibbs'memoir so admirable. Why? And why does it matter for the understanding of physics Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and the universe? Well, Marcus Chownhas documented his journey in ''s new book will lead you gently through the background to this discovery and with a small amount of effort A Tattoo on your part you should grasp its relevancemy Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474601863</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cordelia Fine0099551063|title= Testosterone RexThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered MindsLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= I really want to believe that starting ''Testosterone Rex'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they' with an anecdote involving re probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a key-ring made little of canine testicles was less of a puerile opening gambit and its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of a consciously chosen attempt to make me believe that Cordelia Finepsychopathy. It's new book is going too easy to deliver associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the goodstruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1849767343|title=Botanicum Activity BookCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott title and Kathy Willis]] are going format of this book might lead you to love the ''Botanicum Activity Bookthink that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. DonIt isn't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: thereit's plenty a hymn of praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or pencileveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eugenia ChengB08B39QNRH|title=Beyond InfinityThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universeSolving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''ISociety is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'm right.''<br>''I'm more right.''<br>''I'm right times infinity!''<br>''I'm right two times infinity!''<br>''I'm right times infinity squared!''<br>

Most people will have heard, or participated in, this type of childhood argument. It doesn't really make much sense, as we know that infinity goes on forever, and therefore I came to Michael Pritchard's 'two times infinity'The Curious History of Writer' and 's Cramp'infinity squared'' cannot be any bigger than infinity itselfby a rather strange route. But what exactly I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'is: I prefer the word 'painful' infinity? This term but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history of a problem which has puzzled defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and intrigued people for generationsso it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and ''Beyond Infinity'' sees mathematician Eugenia Cheng take on the challenge of defining infinity and helping us unlock its secretschanging medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer1776572858|title=The Street Beneath My FeetHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's one thing for more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the starsbasics, 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 clinical language which had never been used in real life, why, then the game is changed. our house before) 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 I was told that it at its best, wouldn't be discussed any further 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''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. And thereI ''knew's only one way to go from there – back out the other side' more, with yet more for us to be shownbut was little ''wiser''. It's a fantastic journeyThankfully, then – and a quite fantastic volumetimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy JonesDanny Dorling|title= Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife |summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Bakewell|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsSlowdown

|genre= Politics and Society|summary= You know that old saying We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about judging books by their cover? it. Ignore it! I have found Dorling tells us that by judging a book by its cover and getting it completely wrong the latter is a great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that you'd never have picked in a million years normal, natural and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didprobably good for us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nigel Linge We are designed to worry and Andy Sutton|title= The British Phonebox|rating= 4.5|genre= History |summary= The mobile phone must be one of with the most used, must-have accessories current state of the modern age, the one device you cannot escape from what we're doing in public. Some of us with (relatively) long memories must look back on the age when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme as a long time agoworld we have much to be worried about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to However, over the Mars Rover next three-hundred-and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space explorationpages, even if you can follow the young person you buy books for doesn't know arguments, it all. So I wonsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftbe as worried as we are, and the processes we needed to be expert or in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt cases that we're not worrying about the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, and how other things orbited other wrong things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audienceMostly. When I was a nipper Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were luckyare. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but statelyIn fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and often aren't worried about accuracy as such the direction of change will in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white pagesome cases go into reverse. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Some little girls want Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to be princesseshow far you can go, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be then Emily moved a scientiststep further and began counting in twos. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well knew all about odd and won a gold medal for her studieseven numbers. In Poland, Then she began counting in the middle threes: half of the nineteenth century, only men list were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languageeven numbers, but the other half was soon the best maths odd and science studentit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie(Actually, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the confused me a little bit at first woman to receive as they're a subset of the honour. Pierre was killed in a road accident, odd numbers but Marie went on sound as though they ought to win be a second Nobel Prizesubset of the even numbers, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todaybut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel1910593508|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living YoungerApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Healthier, LongerChris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=I have lived my life determined not This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to ''age'': I see nothing aspirational in the dependence Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of old agethis, whether it be on other people, government the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in all its forms or the NHSblanks. I'm prepared These shortcuts are the only downside to put effort into this: itthe book. If you's not the cosmetic image ve ever read a comic book adaptation of youth I seek, but rather a film you will be familiar with the ability to do as I do now - running slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long as possibleand still felt too short. So far it's working out, but what else could I do and ''why'' does this work for some people and not for others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedt1999308719|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at WomenLive Forever Manual: Essays on ArtScience, Sex ethics and companies behind the Mindnew anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society Lifestyle|summary= For many years now I must confess 've (half) joked that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke I intended to me on a profoundlive forever and that so far, intimate levelit was working out OK. This is in part due to the apparent similarities between me Time has passed though and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art although I'm a great deal fitter and also love science in healthier than most people of my age there were a world few nagging health problems which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivewere tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman LookingLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' is that it is seemed like the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinesanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Morris1847941834|title= Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday LifeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=This unusual science textbook is based on the meetings of a science discussion group who raise questions from their everyday life. The groupI's resident science expertve said this before but there are some books that you seek out, Andrew Morris, does a sterling job in trying to answer some of their most obscure books that you stumble across and challenging issuessome books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, which range from the physics of light and electricity to brain chemistry and social anthropology. Each chapter is based around a theme which grows from an observation made by a group memberlike, such as ''what colour is the blood in the bodyright now! '' and Atomic Habits''why is the tide so far out at Blackpool''. This tie-in to the reality of our lives, makes the science more interesting and somehow more usefullast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911307037</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin BrownHoneyborne BlueII|title=Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-BombBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=34.5|genre=HistoryAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What, do you think, was more feared in 1941 and 1942 than You may well remember when the Nazi Party? Well, sticking of a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on the list. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but Inumber '2'm not so sure. A lot after a film title was suggesting something of the people to be at the forefront of the nuclear physics of the age were German, and prestige - that the first nuclear fission film had been so good it was on their soil. Two things seemed fully justified to be needed for nuclear arms – uranium, which they procured by capturing Czechoslovakia, the location of one its greatest source mines; and heavy waterhave something more. That so nearly fell into Nazi hands when they invaded Norwayhas hardly been proven correct, but what seems it has until recently almost been confined to have been the great majority cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world's supply had only just been smuggled outof non-fiction. [[Fatherland by Robert Harris|Some fiction]] takes great strides to suggest in If someone has made a fantasy way that if Hitler hadnnature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't concentrated on exterminating Jewsthere are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, he why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have had the prestige, the energy to win and the war – and it must only be a short step heft to see his imperial expansionism as having an ulterior motive demand follow-ups. And after five years in nuclear materiel. But make no mistakethe making, this is not fiction – these are the pure facts behind the issueBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664674</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Stewart1783099593|title= Calculating the CosmosSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule|rating= 34|genre= Popular Science|summary= In ''Calculating the Cosmos'Speaking Up' Ian Stewart attempts to explain how mathematics, has a fascinating subject which strikes fear into the hearts matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of manylanguage in media, education, religion, can be used to explain the wonders of the universe in a way which is accessible workplace and understandable in a concise 352 pagespersonal relationships. According to Stewart, Calculating the Cosmos takes us from the surface of the Earth to the outer reaches Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of the cosmos and research from the beginning of time mid-twentieth century to the end of the universepresent day. Does he achieve this? As the author himself statesReading it, the fun is in finding out so if you have any interest in mathematics, the universe we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the complexities of space and time this may just be the book for youKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jack ChallonerCampbell_Astra|title= The CellAd Astra: A Visual Tour of An illustrated guide to leaving the Building Block of Lifeplanet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating= 4.5

|summary=ISo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you've always been mesmerised by micro-worlds and d better study the fact that the tiniest things are made whole history of human space flight to get up of even smaller intricate partsto speed. The first time I saw That could take a picture of while… if only there was a human cell, I was fascinated by its complexityhandy guide that could condense it all down for you. ''The Cell'' is a visual marvel, filled Enter Dallas Campbell with full-colour cell images taken by optical and electron microscopes, using phase contrast, fluorescence and dark-field illumination this book: An illustrated guide to colour and differentiate leaving the individual components. The detailed text that accompanies each image explains how cells begin, reproduce, protect themselves and come together in extraordinary ways to create complex lifeplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisAdrian_Sock|title=Botanicum Sock (Welcome To The MuseumObject Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and Iyet my partner'll admit that s daughter has been employed for the moment I was confused as Iseveral years designing it, or them. It've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as s something I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One use for about 200 days of the authorsevery year, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kewa guess (well, but for I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me I was back in at the glasshouses at opposite end of the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] scale to well-known mass- the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to be in fund his desire of having a museumfresh pair every single day. On which subject, unless it's that it allows us the amount of them we create every year could stack to refer to author Kathy Willis the freaking moon and illustrator Katie Scott as curatorsmore. Still it's Some idiots buy more than six pairs a contrivance year, apparently, which doesnis plain stupid. I't affect m talking, as you can tell, of the contenthumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive GiffordGermano_Eye|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity BookEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=It''This is Not s happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a Science Bookpositive 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 other problems, I' explores ve had different tests to check the often-overlooked link between science pressure inside my eye, and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers I've come away with glasses I don't need to get cuttingwear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, glueingor when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, twistingseemingly ageless test, colouring and shading of various letters in various configurations that diminish in order size, to create a variety of prove to the relevant scientist at-home experiments what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that are as entertaining as they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during led to it, the long (changes other people made to it, and often wet) school holidaysthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoBall_Wonders|title=Build Your Own WebsiteWonders Beyond Numbers: Create with CodeA Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=The Nanonauts want Like many people of a website for their band''certain age, and who better to build it for them than the CoderDojo network '' I have fond memories of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created tuning in conjunction with to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the CoderDojo Foundation, children virtues of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and Javascriptactually making these subjects ''fun. Don't worry too much if some of ' Although decades have passed since those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through the classic TV shows, his latest book. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which proves that he has great benefits in terms lost none of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - his passion and the benefits of teamworkenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoYong_Contain|title=Build Your Own WebsiteI Contain Multitudes: Create with Code|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their band, and who better to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS microbes within us and Javascript. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through the book. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms grander view of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamwork.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Young Rewired State|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & game|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Learning to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doors. It might look complicated, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imagination. I had a reasonable mastery of the skills of basic HTML in three days with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Arabella Kurtz and J M Coetzee|title= The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary= We live by stories. Novelists weave tales that may or may not reflect reality, and that we accept as their job: to create fictions with intriguing character plots that draw in, surprise and touch the reader is at the core of their job description. But story telling goes beyond profession: everyone, writer or not, sometimes more consciously, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress others, and constantly weave together a story of who we are, a tale of identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Woollett|title=Sea JournalEd Yong

|summary=Over the course of The world you know is a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although 'visits' might make what happens sound a little too formallie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Woollett knows her local beaches, Sickness and some further afield, in much the same way that a gardener knows their own plothealth are all far more complex than we thought. She's aware of minute changes, how the phase of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect Things designed to find in the strandline save us may kill us and where it's come fromthings we think would kill us may save us. She delights in every variation of Welcome to the weather and she's a mine modern study of wonderful information from ancient myths to up-to-the-minute sciencemicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>