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<!-- Honeyborne -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|leftisbn=1788360702|linktitle=httpsCharles, The Alternative Prince://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849909679?ieAn Unauthorised Biography|author=UTF8&tagEdzard Ernst|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode4|genre=as2&campBiography|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1849909679]]For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]===0192779230[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and WildlifeThe Invisible World of Germs|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Scienceauthor=Isabel Thomas|Popular Science]]rating=5|genre=Children's Non-FictionYou may well remember when the sticking of a number |summary='2Germs' after seems to have become a film title was suggesting something of prestige catch- that all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the first film had been so good it was fully justified potential to have something moremake you ill. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined In the first book in what looks to cinema - you barely got be a TV very promising new series worthy of , OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a numbered sequel, clear and never in accessible introduction to the world of non-fictiongerms. If someone We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has made developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a nature series aboutregular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, sayfungi, Alaska (protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and boy arenWildlife|summary=I don't there are often begin my reviews with a lot warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of those these days) a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the numeralcompanion volume you've been looking for. But some nature programmes do have As a TV show the prestigeauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the energy book is not suitable for younger readers and the heft to demand follow ups- after reading - I agree with him. And after five years in the making, the BBCHe says that he's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helpingwritten it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br>eating.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dallas Campbell0241480442|title= Ad AstraHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceCookery|summary= So… you want Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to leave Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the planet? Before you do odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which youhope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn'd better study t the whole history taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of human space flight being able to get up to speed. That could take sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for youfew spare moments. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164055</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim AdrianDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Sock (Object Lessons)A Tattoo on my Brain

|summary=The subject '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the events of this book has been around for several millennia6 January 2021 that might have surprised, and yet my partnereven shocked many readers: now they's daughter has been employed for several years designing re probably convinced that they knew it, or themall along. It's something I use for about 200 days The statement has lost a little of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people its shock value but it does help us to think understand more about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer nature of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single daypsychopathy. On which subject, the amount of them we create every year could stack It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a yearYorkshire Ripper, apparentlyJeffrey Dahmer, which is plain stupid. I'm talkingSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, as you can tellthe real-life Hannibal Lecter, of but the humble socktruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501315064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Germano1849767343|title=Eye Chart (Object Lessons)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=It''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's happened Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. I mean An exploration of the receipt history of a problem which has defeated some of certain little numerical resultsthe best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the intended clarity problem itself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and normalityFamily|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. IMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she've had that gizmo that photos the back d get me a book about it. A couple of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, days later I've had different tests to check was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the pressure inside my eyebasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and Iwas told that it wouldn've come away with glasses t be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I don't need to wear all the time'knew'' more, but certainly benefit from on holidaywas little ''wiser''. Thankfully, or when watching TV or times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a cinema or theatre productiontime of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. And above However, over the next three-hundred-and beyond -some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that Iwe've stared at – and got re worrying about the wrong – the simplethings. Mostly. Because mostly, seemingly ageless testthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of various letters change in various configurations that diminish many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in sizesome cases go into reverse.|isbn=0300243405}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Emily found words ''useful'', to prove to the relevant scientist at but counting was what stage things get blurry for meshe loved best. Of course itObviously, you can count anything and there's not agelessno limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the scientific progress that led to itlist were even numbers, but the changes other people made to half was odd and itwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, and this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the cultural impact even numbers, but it's had are all on these eye-opening small pagesworked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501312340</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johnny Ball1910593508|title= Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things MathematicalApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceHistory|summary=Like many people of This incredible graphic novel is a ''certain agelove letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch,'' I have fond memories Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of tuning this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of maths a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and actually making these subjects companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'funm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. '' Although decades have passed since those classic TV showsLive Forever Manual: Science, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion ethics and enthusiasm for his subjectcompanies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ed Yong1847941834|title= I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of lifeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating= 4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= The world I've said this before but there are some books that you know is a lie. There seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to in the modern study of Microbeslast category. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700177</amazonuk>

 <!-- Beattie -->*[[image:Beattie_Stupendous.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]] ===[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]FrontpageEducation should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play. [[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Sarcone -->*[[image:Sarcone_Optical.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938475?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938475]] ===[[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber]]==isbn=Honeyborne BlueII [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewBlue Planet II

|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow -ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's ''Blue Planet'' series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909679</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1783099593|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpeaking Up|author=Marty Jopson|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cookAllyson Jule

|genre=CookeryPopular Science|summary=I've always believed that if you understood Speaking Up''why'' something worked in has a particular way it was very easy to remember ''fascinating subject matter - how'' it worked language reflects and what you needed to doshapes our notions of gender. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the kitchen - workplace and he covers everything personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the type of knives we use through mid-twentieth century to the food of the futurepresent day. Best of allReading it, he does it in language we feel that she has studied everything that even a science illiterate like me can understandhas ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurence BrowneCampbell_Astra|title= The Many Faces of CoincidenceAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Browne does not mislead So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore book: An illustrated guide to leaving the many faces of coincidenceplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Dittricht -->[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]] ===[[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]===Adrian_Sock[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br> {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Tom Wolfe|title= The Kingdom of SpeechKim Adrian|rating= 23.5

|summary= The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It'If you are not s something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fight with somebodyfresh pair every single day. On which subject, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morningamount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more.Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I'' With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements m talking, as this even up to the near present (The Guardian in 2004), you can be sure that Wolfetell, nearing 87, has lost none of his familiar argumentative style; or that his journalistic days are nearing a close, with his love of melodramathe humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney ShawGermano_Eye|title= The Smell of Fresh Rain|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary= The Smell of Fresh Rain attempts to open our minds to the power and potential of our sense of smell. Barney Shaw, a man armed with only a powerful curiosity and boundless enthusiasm sets out to understand this ever elusive sense and to explore ways to interpret smells in an accessible and simple way. His journey takes him from boatyards to markets via Harrods and his childhood home to uncover the meaning behind everyday scents and to distil the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=Robert Newman|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideWilliam Germano|rating=4.5

|summary=In NeuropolisIt's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the book pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the Radio 4 seriestime, but certainly benefit from on holiday, Newman targets or when watching TV or a sub-species cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of pop-neuroscience various letters in various configurations that he dubs bro-science – a pessimisticdiminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, denigrating take on but the brain scientific progress that is based more on macho posing than on research. He sets out led to it, the changes other people made to destroy it using proper science, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonBall_Wonders|title=Cool PhysicsWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about Like many people of a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''certain age, don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind I have fond memories of tuning in physics. Brownian motion, to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and all of actually making these three things are on the introductory timeline in this subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book, which I think might well be proof enough proves that a primer in the world he has lost none of physics is very much neededhis passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonYong_Contain|title=Something or NothingI Contain Multitudes: A Search for My Personal Theory the microbes within us and a grander view of Everythinglife|author=Ed Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory of the meaning of the universe,and of why they - we - exist within itThe world you know is a lie. It's a natural extension to wonder whether life was created, or, if not created, how was life formed? In ''Something There is no such thing as good or Nothing'' Anthony Marson develops his own theoriesbad microbes. The journey began when the author was on a touring holiday in Tasmania, gazed up at a clear night sky Sickness and asked himself how and why health are all the stars came far more complex than we thought. Things designed to exist. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientists, theologians save us may kill us and philosophers, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him and he begins his search by quite openly admitting that he has only a limited scientific educationthings we think would kill us may save us. It was good Welcome to know - for once - that I was on the same footing as the author and we could explore togethermodern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

<!-- Marsh -->Move on to [[image:Marsh Admissions.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WW5TKNP?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B06WW5TKNP]] ===[[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Reference Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book do? [[Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Dorling Kindersley|title=First Science Encyclopedia|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>}}