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|title=Doughnuts for a Dragon
|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''Doughnuts for a Dragon'' does pretty much what it says on the tin, with George heading off on a mission to find a dragon. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself a spaceship in order to hunt for extraterrestrial life, but this time his plan requires a time machine - I mean, how else are you going to find a Dragon?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
|summary=''The Last Escaper'' opens differently to many of the great escape biographies that were released soon after the war as it is told some 70 years later. Peter Tunstall was an RAF pilot who was shot down and spent many years as a Prisoner Of War across occupied Europe, including in Colditz. He lived through the war, but also lived through many decades of peace. Will these years of the relative quiet life lesson the tales of bravery and dare doing of the war? Of course not!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564923X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gary Smith
|title=Standard Deviations
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Over the years I've regularly been infuriated by the way that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately to deceive us. Politicians, journalists, academics all seem to fall into the trap with alarming regularity and I was tempted into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) that 'If you torture data long enough, it will confess'. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale for seven years and is now a professor at Pomona College in California. His book is aimed at the layman rather than the academic - does it hit the mark?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>
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