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<!-- Langford -->{{Frontpage:[[image:Langford_Emily.jpg|left|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999947509/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1788360702 ===[[Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]Charles, [[The Alternative Prince:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]]An Unauthorised Biography Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously you can count anything and there's no 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 list were even numbers, but the other half were odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occured when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, 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 even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.) of review [[Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Honeyborne -->author=Edzard Ernst*[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1849909679/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]4|genre===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]===Biography[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]]For over forty years, [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] 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 Prince Charles has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy an ardent supporter of a numbered sequel, alternative medicine and never in the world of non-fictioncomplementary therapies. 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 anotherCharles, 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 BBCThe Alternative Prince's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Campbell -->*[[image:Campbell_Astra.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164055?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164055]] ===[[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet by Dallas Campbell]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] 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 book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet. [[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving critically assesses the planet by Dallas Campbell|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Adrian -->*[[image:Adrian_Sock.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1501315064?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1501315064]] ===[[Sock (Object Lessons) by Kim Adrian]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my partnerPrince's daughter has been employed for several years designing itopinions, or them. It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands beliefs and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at aims against the opposite end background of the scale to well-known mass-murderer scientific evidence. There are few instances of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of having a fresh pair every single day. On treatments which subject, the amount 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'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock. [[Sock (Object Lessons) by Kim Adrian|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Germano -->*[[image:Germano_Eye.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1501312340?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1501312340]] ===[[Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] It's happened to me, and like as not it have no scientific support has or will happen done considerable damage to you, too. I mean the receipt reputation 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 man who is proud of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led his refusal to it, the changes other people made to it, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eyeapply evidence-opening small pages. [[Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Johnny Ball|title= Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=Like many people of a ''certain agebased,'' I have fond memories of tuning in logical reasoning to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subjectambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472939980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ed Yong0192779230|title= I Contain MultitudesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: the microbes within us and a grander view The Invisible World of lifeGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating= 5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= The world 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you know is ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a lieclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and health are all far more complex than we what they thoughtcaused them and how the thinking has developed over time. Things designed to save us may kill us The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and things how we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to the modern study of Microbesshould protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700177</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Beattie -->|isbn=gareth_steel*[[image:Beattie_Stupendous.jpg|lefttitle=Never Work With Animals|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ieGareth Steel|rating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]]4 ==|genre=[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie Animals and Sam Peet]]===Wildlife [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:ChildrenI don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Education should it seems to be funappropriate. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. ThatStories of a vet's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They life have the fun element, the proved popular since 'wow factor,' All Creatures Great 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]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:ChildrenSmall'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 but ''Magic EyeNever Work With Animals'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if is definitely not the companion volume you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way've been looking for. For As a brief period in TV show the early 90sauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday livesas do other similar programmes. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in Gareth Steel says that the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone is not suitable for younger readers and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Caroline Alliston|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 realafter reading -world situationsI agree with him. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity He says that he's written it to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, lightinform and provoke thought, motion and electricityparticularly amongst aspiring vets. The book is designed It deals with the younger scientist in mindsome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, so although there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysare occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marty Jopson0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat |author=Niko Rittenau and how we cookSebastian Copien|rating=4.5

|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a particular Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way it was very easy 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 odd blip with regard to remember cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don''how'' it worked and what you needed t occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to doanimal-based protein. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One ShowIt wasn'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in t the kitchen taste - and he covers everything I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the type animal kingdom - it was the ease of knives we use through being able to the food of the future. Best of all, he does it get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in language that even a science illiterate like me can understandfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laurence BrowneDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= The Many Faces of CoincidenceA Tattoo on my Brain|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= Browne does not mislead with Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this choice of title; he does without cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a doubt explore statue over time affected the many faces of coincidenceelements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>1108838936

<!-- Dittricht -->[[imageUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers:Dittrich_Patientnow they're probably convinced that they knew it all along.jpg|left|link=https://www The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy.amazon It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Count on Me|author=[[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]Miguel Tanco|rating=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Luke Dittrich seeks summary=The title and format of this book might lead you to shed light think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.Mnumbers journey. It isn't: A Story it's a hymn of Memory, Madness praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br>how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom WolfeB08B39QNRH|title= The Kingdom Curious History of SpeechWriter's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard|rating= 24

|summary= ''If you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the morning.written word''.

With Tom Wolfe making such bold statements I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as this even up to the near present problem itself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (The Guardian translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in 2004our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a time 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. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be sure as worried as we are, or in some cases that Wolfewe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, nearing 87things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, has lost none the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of his familiar argumentative style; or that his journalistic days are nearing change will in some 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'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a closestep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, with his love but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, 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 melodramathe even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of 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 still felt too short.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney Shaw1999308719|title= The Smell of Fresh RainLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary= The Smell of Fresh Rain attempts to open our minds For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to the power live forever and potential of our sense of smellthat so far, it was working out OK. Barney Shaw, Time has passed though and although I'm a man armed with only great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a powerful curiosity and boundless enthusiasm sets few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to understand this ever elusive sense look for a new approach and to explore ways to interpret smells in an accessible and simple wayas so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. His journey takes him from boatyards to markets via Harrods ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and his childhood home to uncover companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the meaning behind everyday scents and answer to distil the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfyingmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you 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 in the last category.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=Robert NewmanJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783099593|title= Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival GuideSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In Neuropolis, the book and the Radio 4 series, Newman targets 'Speaking Up' has a subfascinating subject matter -species how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of pop-neuroscience that he dubs bro-science – a pessimisticlanguage in media, education, religion, denigrating take on the brain that is based more on macho posing than workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of researchfrom the mid-twentieth century to the present day. He sets out to destroy Reading it using proper science, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Sarah HuttonDallas Campbell|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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 book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Adrian_Sock|title=Cool PhysicsSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5

|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle The subject of wavefront sources''this book has been around for several millennia, donand yet my partner't worry – it was only in 1678 that s daughter has been employed for several years designing it happened, so youor them. It're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motions 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 gravitational constant being measured both date from before opposite end of the Victorian erascale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, and all the amount of these three things are on them we create every year could stack to the introductory timeline in this bookfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, which is plain stupid. I think might well be proof enough that a primer in 'm talking, as you can tell, of the world of physics is very much neededhumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarsonGermano_Eye|title=Something or Nothing: A Search for My Personal Theory of EverythingEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Most thinking people have their own theory of the meaning of the universe,and of why they - we - exist within it. It's a natural extension happened to wonder whether life was createdme, and like as not it has orwill happen to you, if not createdtoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, how was life formed? In 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'Something or Nothingve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don' Anthony Marson develops his own theories. The journey began when t need to wear all the author was time, but certainly benefit from on a touring holiday in Tasmania, gazed up at or when watching TV or a clear night sky cinema or theatre production. And above and asked himself how beyond that I've stared at – and why all got wrong – the stars came simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to existthe relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Although this subject has been explored countless times by scientistsOf course, it's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it, theologians and philosophersthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ball_Wonders|title=Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Like many people of a ''certain age, Marson wanted an answer which satisfied him '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and he begins science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his search by quite openly admitting latest book proves that he has only lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world you know is a limited scientific educationlie. It was There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to know - for once - that I was on the same footing as the author save us may kill us and things we could explore togetherthink would kill us may save us. Welcome to the modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191128097X</amazonuk>

<!-- Marsh -->[[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]]=== Move on to [[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>