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|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

|author=George Johnson

|rating=4

|genre=Popular Science

|summary=George Johnson, a popular science writer more comfortable in the fields of physics and cosmology, started his journey into cancer when his wife, Nancy, was diagnosed with a rare uterine variety. He took it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?), but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it has been with us.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>

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|title=Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence

Oh, and did I forget to mention that he is just 14 years old?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145627</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Ian Stewart~~

~~|title=The Great Mathematical Problems~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Popular Science~~

|summary=I joked with a friend when I first got the book that ''The Great Problems'' may be a step too far for me, and perhaps I should wait for Stewart to release a book called ''The Fairly Good Mathematical Problems'' as it would be closer to my level. While I originally said it in jest, by chapter four or so I was starting to think I'd been closer to the truth than I'd realised - Stewart seems, somewhat surprisingly given his past success with books like the brilliant [[Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart|Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures]], to have pitched this book about the 'really big questions in mathematics' at an extremely high level. With just a degree in mathematics and nearly ten years worth of experience teaching the subject, I found it something of a slog to get through, with many concepts being difficult to grasp, in particular the Mordell conjecture.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681995</amazonuk>~~

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