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{{newreview
|author=Lewis Dartnell
|title=The Knowledge
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthy, The ''MaddAdam'' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled to hear her books described as 'Science Fiction'), and the recent ''Station Eleven'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just a small drop in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic books.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edzard Ernst
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Edge of the Sky
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Inventions in 30 Seconds
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Human Body in 30 Seconds
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gary Smith
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Mind Change
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251274</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Earth in 30 Seconds
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Lazarus Effect
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251746</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Jake's Bones
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=My Age of Anxiety
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019143</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845404556</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=What If Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions About Physics
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400451</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099433532</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278528</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=What a Wonderful World
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571278396</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9400770634</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything
|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets of information but in the flow of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches the cheese course - definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing the Enemy''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
|author=David Quammen
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=''We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodies.'' This is a salient fact taken away from David Quammen's ''Spillover''. The entire book is a most trenchant eye-opener to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are ''zoonoses'', 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>
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