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|title=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

|author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf

|rating=4

|genre=Popular Science

|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>

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|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

|summary=''God Versus Particle Physics: A No Score Draw'' is a bold, witty and undoubtedly controversial book that questions our blind faith in science. Davies, a psychologist, analyses the subject in detail, creating some interesting and convincing arguments concluding that some of the latest theories in the realm of physics seem to border on the metaphysical, lacking any kind of demonstrable proof. He reasons that many of the arguments used by prominent atheists, demanding evidence that God exists, can also be applied to ideas such as the Big Bang, parallel universes, dark matter and the Higgs Boson, ironically known as the ''God particle''.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405587</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map~~

~~|author=Joseph Nigg~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Popular Science~~

|summary=A confession. When reading hardbacks I take the paper cover, if there is one, off, to keep it pristine. Sometimes there's a second benefit, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlike. But with this book I won't be alone, for the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copies. It's a coloured replica of a large map of the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, and is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, in such a lovely fashion.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>~~

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