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|title=The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985
|author=Donna J Drucker
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=I'll start bluntly – this is a very academic, specialised tome, and is not really for the curious reader to flick through. Given that, you probably can work out exactly what this book is like, and therefore move on from this review, 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 and leave you with some interest. 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 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 the science of fifty years ago – namely filming copulating couples. Conversely, if you did know something on the topic, this book will be on your shelves quite imminently.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9400770634</amazonuk>
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|summary=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts make a great team. Their previous book, ''Iggy Peck, Architect'', is a best seller and has a lot in common with ''Rosie Revere, Engineer''. Both stories offer hope and encouragement to children who feel at odds and left out of the mainstream. Rosie is very shy and cannot bring herself to join in at school. But at home she sparkles and comes to life while building inventive gadgets from odds and ends, often using things rescued from the bin. When her favourite uncle laughs at one of her contraptions (made especially for him), Rosie is mortified and it takes the exuberant help of another relative to bring her back out of her shell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419708457</amazonuk>
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