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|title=Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer
|author=Ray Monk
|rating=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>
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{{newreview
|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
(Even if I can still only spell disappointed with the help of my spellchecker)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685672</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Holt
|title=Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=In ''The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question is, rendering the answer meaningless. In ''Why Does the World Exist?'', Jim Holt explores potential answers to what could be considered the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything – why is there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-two.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>
}}