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|author=Michael Marder
|title=Dust (Object Lessons)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=''Dust'' is among the latest volumes in Bloomsbury's fascinating new 'Object Lessons' series. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' to ''Shipping Container'', the books aim to explore the hidden histories of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Nevertheless, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed of skin cells and hair, the detritus of our human bodies. Thus dusting – the verb form – is a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselves, ultimately a futile and 'self-defeating occupation'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cedric Villani
Heralding from the discipline of neuroscience, Greenfield’s case, in short, is that the brain may be changing to meet the demands of the digital twenty-first century. Online mass-player games, digitally equipped classrooms, electronic readers and search-engines each challenge how the mind has traditionally socialised and learned.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|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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