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|title=Inventions in 30 Seconds

|author=Dr Mike Goldsmith

|rating=5

|genre=Popular Science

|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute I have found the answer to one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace it. I was delighted then, when ''Inventions in 30 Seconds'' arrived for me to review, as I saw it as a dose of much-needed respite from my endless research.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>

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|title=The Human Body in 30 Seconds

|summary=Gareth Williams, author of ''Angel of Death'', turns his focus from the history of the plague to that of polio in ''Paralysed with Fear''. From the first report of a case in 1700-Strasbourg, right through to polio in the present day, he traces polio’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries and geographical borders. Almost more intriguing, though, is the insight we receive to the cut-throat competition between scientists who sought to use polio as a means for making history.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137299754</amazonuk>

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~~|author=John D Barrow~~

~~|title=Mathletics~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Sport~~

|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, I was thrilled to get the chance to read a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into the world of sports'. This is rather a frustrating read because it seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points out that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animal. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s so obvious. Then there are other chapters, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more space. The decathlon one is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections and doubling the other half in length might have been the way to go here.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>~~

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