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|author= Clancy Martin
|title= Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Popular Science
|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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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Wulf
|summary=As part of my job, I assess junior doctors who want to specialise in General Practice at the end of their two foundation years, and this assessment takes the form of role plays where they play 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 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, but if she does die, we won’t bring her back to life the way we might another patient'. 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 to time, along with the story of the patient who tripped and fell on a, erm, personal massage device, had to have it surgically removed…and then asked for it back. It’s relevant here, though, because what that wannabe GP was saying is that he had the power to bring people back from the dead. And that’s what this book is all about.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The wizards of the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworld. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (it's round for a start!) but they're still rather fond of it. However, there's a problem: the Church of the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine to it too and would like to claim 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 time. What on Earth will happen next?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>
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