Changes

{{Frontpage|classisbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=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-"wikitable" cellpaddingbased, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating="15" <!5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs' seems to have become a catch- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREall word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. 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 how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and -after reading ->I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. 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 eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to 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 odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the 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 being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. 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''.|isbn=1108838936}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0099551063|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.''

<!-- Langford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Langford_Emily.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999947509/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] 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 goUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, 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 threesshocked many readers: 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 now they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though probably convinced that they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but knew it all worked out well when I really thought about italong.) of review [[Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford|Full Review]] <!-- Honeyborne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1849909679/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] You may well remember when the sticking of The statement has lost a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something little of prestige - that the first film had been so good its shock value but it was fully justified does help us to have something understand more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in about 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 numeralpsychopathy. 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 It's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]] <!-- Campbell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide too easy 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 associate psychopathy with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet. [[Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet by Dallas Campbell|Full Review]] <!-- Adrian -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 millenniaYorkshire Ripper, and yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing itJeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or them. It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (wellRobert Maudsley, 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 wellreal-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 subjectlife Hannibal Lecter, but 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 truth is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you that having psychopathic traits can tell, of the humble socksometimes be a good thing. [[Sock (Object Lessons) by Kim Adrian|Full Review]] <!-- Germano -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 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 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 to it, the changes other people made to it, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages. [[Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano|Full Review]] <!-- Ball -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ball_Wonders.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472939980/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical by Johnny Ball]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Like many people of a ''certain age,'' I have fond memories of tuning in 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 subject. [[Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical by Johnny Ball|Full Review]] <!-- YONG -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1849767343[[image:Yong_Contain.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784700177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Count on Me| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong]]==author=Miguel Tanco [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] The world you know is a lie. There 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 the modern study of Microbes. [[I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong|Full Review]] <!-- Beattie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beattie_Stupendous.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet]]===5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Education 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]] <!-- Sarcone -->|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"| [[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=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 The title and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all format of my fellow librarians crowded around a this book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if might lead 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 think that it''Optical Illusions.'' [[Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|Full Review]] <!s either about responsibility -- ALLISTON -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Alliston_Build.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784938483/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] or it''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes s a strictly handsbasic 1-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real2-world situations. The 3 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 for those just starting out on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysnumbers journey. [[Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston|Full Review]] <!-- Jopson -->|-| style="widthisn't: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jopson_Science.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438386?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438386]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook by Marty Jopson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Iit've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in s a particular way it was very easy hymn of praise to remember ''how'' it worked and what you needed to domaths. The food we eat It's about why maths is no exception to this rule so wonderful and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and he covers everything from the type of knives we use through to the food of the future. Best of all, he does you meet it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand. [[The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook by Marty Jopson|Full Review]] <!-- Browne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Browne_Many.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coeveryday life.uk/dp/1845409159/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Many Faces of Coincidence by Laurence Browne]]===}}[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the many faces of coincidence. [[The Many Faces of Coincidence by Laurence Browne|Full Review]] <!-- Dittricht -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B08B39QNRH[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Patient H.M.: A Story The Curious History of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]=== [[imageWriter's Cramp:4.5star.jpg|link=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]]  <!Solving an age-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}  {{newreviewold problem|author=Tom Wolfe|title= The Kingdom of SpeechMichael 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 (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 (The Guardian 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, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, nearing 87the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of 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'', has lost none 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 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 the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=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 his a film you will be familiar argumentative style; or with the slight feeling that his journalistic days there are nearing scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a closegraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, with his love ethics and 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'm 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 melodramabalance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>178470489X</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barney ShawHoneyborne BlueII|title= The Smell of Fresh RainBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= The Smell You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of Fresh Rain attempts prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to open our minds have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the power cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and potential of our sense never in the world of smellnon-fiction. Barney ShawIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a man armed with only a powerful curiosity lot of those these days) and boundless enthusiasm sets out wants to understand this ever elusive sense 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 explore ways to interpret smells demand follow-ups. And after five years 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 making, the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfyingBBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781138</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Newman1783099593|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>