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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Bellos1787333175|title=AlexYou Don's Adventures In Numberlandt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|summary=Maths 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 wonderful thingglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...Wait, don't run away. It really is. The way numbers interact with each other, ' promised the way counting systems developed, how mathematical breakthroughs are coming same elements but moved from the world of crochet, physical problems to mental illness and how people can mentally calculate the 13th root work of a 200 digit number psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in almost less time this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it takes to read it out loud. There's all sorts of weird is always delivered with empathy and wonderful stuff going on in Numberlandunderstanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597162</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Fortey1788360702|title=Charles, The Hidden LandscapeAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=The purpose For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of this book is to explore the connection between the landscape alternative medicine and the geology underlying itcomplementary therapies. ''Charles, which in one of his many vivid similes Fortey compares The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the surface personality with the workings of the unconscious mind beneath. He starts by describing a journey he once made from Paddington Station to Haverford WestPrince's opinions, a market town in Pembrokeshire beliefs and with it a passage back into aims against the plutonic depths background of geological aeons, indicated by the large 60cm monster trilobites that have been found in the Cambrian rocks near St David'sscientific evidence. Fortey describes the magnificence There are few instances of the Cathedral constructed from the local purple sandstone his beliefs being vindicated and mottled with moisture-loving lichens. He contrasts this with his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the anonymous character reputation of a nearby brightlyman who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-coloured service stationbased, anonymous and synthetic, an invader cheaply built and out of contextlogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920713</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra Horowitz0192779230|title=Inside Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and KnowGerms|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=PetsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I've long been aware that our two dogs Germs' seems to have methods of communication become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which are far more subtle than anything 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 mere human can musterclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. They sense exactly We get an informed look at how we are feeling – a slight change in the atmosphere people originally thought about diseases and what they will be alertthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The reactions to vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a frown or regular box headed 'speak like a smile, laughter or tears are all different and theyscientist're capable of communicating with us in ways which have no need explains some of words. For a while I thought it was our dogs who were special (well, the trickiest concepts and you''obviously'' they are…) but I've noticed other dogs communicating ll soon be familiar with each other bacteria, fungi, protists and with humans viruses – and the more that I see the more that I wonder why they are referred to as 'dumb animals'how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ballgareth_steel|title=The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'We need ' it seems to talk about music, be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but it ''Never Work With Animals'' is harddefinitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. Very few people can As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do itother similar programmes.' So Gareth Steel says Philip Ball that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after 400 pages of talking about musicreading - I agree with him. Very few readers who make He says that he's written it that far will disagree to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with his conclusion, but most will have gained some enlightenment about how music works uncomfortable and why we enjoy distressing issues but itdoesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derrick Niederman0241480442|title=Number FreakHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
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|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=This is Emotionally, I am a book that definitely does what it says on the tinvegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. Our author has the capacity I read [[How to grab each number between one and two hundred, Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and wring it for all its worth - all was appalled by the special status it might have way in which we treat animals in our culture search for (more easy with seven than, say, 187preferably cheap)food. Practically, all I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the special properties it might possess (odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect, triangular, prime), and as many other things mathematicians and so on would find storm of interestthose events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. Luckily there is enough here 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 make the book well worth get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a browse for us who would not deem themselves number buffsfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kees van DeemterDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Not Exactly - In Praise Of VaguenessA Tattoo on my Brain
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|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=How warm Alzheimer's is a warm day? Or ratherdisease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, given as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the weather at the moment, how chilly is a chilly day? Is it better to know I want a small helping of peas, or to know elements. It seems as if nature wants that I want 82 peas? There are times when vagueness final victory over you and your dignity. This is more useful than being specificwhat makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Kees van Deemter makes this point, sharing many examples from Daniel Gibbs is a number of fields, including maths, philosophy, linguistics neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and AIhas documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199545901</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Druin Burch0099551063|title=Taking the MedicineThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=54
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|summary=In 1898, Burch points out that a new drug was developed and marketed for the treatment of tuberculosis by Bayer & Co'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. TB is such an ancient enemy of man that there is apparently evidence of an earlier strain to be found in Egyptian mummies. The German firm had discovered a chemical that seemed to work well, and patients and indeed their own staff, who were tested seemed to respond well - it was named Heroin - and its addictive effects were at first missed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951506</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Laidler1849767343|title=AnimalsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|summary=Sally Kindberg The title and Tracey Turner treated us format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a [[The Comic Strip History of basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of the World]], and have now turned their attention praise to spacemaths. They explain to children everything from the origins of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth It's about planets, right up to current space missionswhy maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartB08B39QNRH|title=Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Ian Stewart has been collecting mathematical curiosities, puzzles and stories since he was 14. He published his ''Cabinet The Curious History of Mathematical Curiosities'' in 2008, and hot on its success, heWriter's sharing this second volume with us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682924</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Mick O'Hare|title=How To Make A TornadoMichael Pritchard
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|summary=Another year, another must-read book from the New Scientist. We've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why DonSociety is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|hamsters]]. Now it's time to turn our attention to how to make a tornado, and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw1776572858|title=Why Does E Equal mc SquaredHow Do You Make a Baby?|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Why does Eauthor=mc² and why should we care? Two questions that every intelligent person should be able to answer, but I'll bet that 95% couldn't. Brian Cox Anna Fiske and Jeff Forshaw explain this most famous of equations to the layperson in such a way that they won't need anything more complicated than Pythagoras' theorem to understand it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306817586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tadg Farrington|title=The Average Life of the Average PersonDon Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Back in school, we would often bemoan the idea of It'average', saying s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that like being 'normalshe', if there were such d get me a thing, who would even want to be book about it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being average. Except...there is by definition A couple of days later I was handed a whole lot worse pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than 'average' – the exact same amount that is better than averagebasics, in factclinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. And that I ''knew'' more, but was the problemlittle ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard D RyderDanny Dorling|title=Nelson, Hitler and DianaSlowdown
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, We are living in a navy officer time of great renownrapid change, forever thrusting himself into the limelight, doing and we're worried about it because his mother passed away when he was nine? . Was Hitler overly affected by his father dying in a time of paternal disapprovalDorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and a kind of Oedipal reaction probably good for us. We are designed to being worry and with the man current state of what we're doing in the house making him suffer when she herself died? world we have much to be worried about. And However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can Dianafollow the arguments, Princess of Walesit sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn' parentst be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer re worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of borderline personality disorder?change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evalyn GatesLangford_Emily|title=EinsteinEmily's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the UniverseNumbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Popular Science Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Subtitled Emily found words ''The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universeuseful'' Gates, but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there' introduction s no limit to astro-physics and cosmology is everything that how far you would expect of such can go, but then Emily moved a bookstep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. GatesThen 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 ' tries 'threeven''so. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they''' hard re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be readable, and mostly succeedsa subset of the even numbers, but at the same time, the subject matter is it all worked out well-nigh incomprehensible. Or maybe, that's just mewhen I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393062384</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Sutherland1910593508|title=IrrationalityApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=The belief that humans are, essentially, rational dates This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Greek antiquity, Moon landings and although intellectual and philosophical fashions changed throughout the epochspassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the capacity to reason Chris Baker and behave in a rational manner is often considered to be a defining characteristics of mature humanityMike Collins. Irrational behaviours have been seen as an evidence of psychiatric or otherwise pathology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905177070</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Dunning|title=Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena |rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Brian Dunning This is the author responsible for a series of weekly podcasts debunking story we know well and analysing a variety because of dubiousthis, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the pop (and not so pop) cultureblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you''Skeptoid 2'' is essentially ve ever read a written version comic book adaptation of those podcasts, a collection of fifty pieces of which many can film you will be also read or listened to at his [http://skeptoidfamiliar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed.com/ website]This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Gardner1999308719|title=RiskLive Forever Manual: The Science , ethics and Politics of Fearcompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Picture 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 world terrorised by just two wordsfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. A civilised, healthy, wealthy world no less, in thrall It was time to look for a new approach and under threat from two words. Not what those two words represent evenas so often happens, just the actual small phrasereviewing gods brought me the book I needed. It sounds ridiculous, but when I say those two words – ''bird flu'Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments' – and you've stopped laughing, you may well remember how seemed like the panic started, the nonanswer to my problems -existent worry was the biggest concern of the western media for some time, and then it went away againonly you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain McCalman1847941834|title=Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=A look at Darwin's journey on The Beagle, as well as journeys by Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace. Darwin's Armada provides a broad overview that strikes a different tone to other books in a crowded market. Casual readers who usually steer clear of non-fiction will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737266X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAtomic Habits|author=Jerry A Coyne|title=Why Evolution is True|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This book should not be needed.The theory of evolution has huge explanatory and predictive powers and it is also, philosophically, a wonderful one to behold: it shows a unity of all living things and our human connection to them all; through the billions of years and millions of generations, from the first bacteria to the human beings capable of understanding the story of life as it unfolded on this planet, the story told by the evolution theory is an exhilarating one; possibly the greatest story ever told by science. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199230846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ball|title=Shapes|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Shapes'' is one volume of a new trilogy born out of the author's 1999 book 'The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature', in which he surveyed a range of contemporary scientific investigation into the extent of nature's patterning with examples taken from areas such as plant growth, minerals, shells, desert sands, lightning, galaxies and atoms. This book has been restructured into the stand-alone volumes ''Shapes'', ''Flow'' and ''Branches'', with new material added.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199237964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Gribbin and Michael White|title=Darwin: A Life in ScienceJames Clear
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|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=This straightforward I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and likeable biography of Charles Darwin charts the evolution of his theories of evolution, while providing solid insights some books that drop into the man in the context of his upbringing, education and family your life. Importantly, it makes because you want to really MUST read ''On the Origin of the Species''them, like, acting as a primer for the ideas introduced in that famous volume. right now! ''Darwin: A Life in ScienceAtomic Habits'' is pitched beautifully for the reader of popular science, yet gives plenty of signposts enabling future study. It also gives a very believable picture of Darwin, based on convincing evidence and without falling into florid psychological speculation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391494</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Fara|title=Science: A Four Thousand Year History|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=From Ancient Babylon to the present day, Patricia Fara presents a definitive history of science. It's wide-ranging enough to cover simply everything you could hope it would, whilst being in-depth enough so that you gain a sufficient understanding of the science and the people involved. It serves as a simple reference guide for the layperson - it's riddled with information, whilst also being perfectly readable as a 'biography of science'. If you ever wanted to know anything about the history of science, this is the book for youlast category. Patricia Fara was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks to Patricia Fara|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019922689X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil deGrasse TysonHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Pluto Files: The Rise Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Fall of America's Favourite PlanetMark Brownlow
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson grouped You may well remember when the celestial bodies by type, rather than listing them under the arbitrary heading sticking of a number 'planets2'. This put Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars together in one group, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune together in another, and left poor little Pluto out in after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the cold. His aim first film had been so good it was for people fully justified to gain a greater understanding, rather than just knowing the nameshave something more. The result was widespread outrage amongst newspapersThat has hardly been proven correct, schoolchildren and but it has until recently almost been confined to the public at large. It was a scientificallycinema -sound position, and ultimately fuelled the International Astronomical Union to define what was and wasn't you barely got a planet. The Pluto Files is TV series worthy of a fascinatingnumbered sequel, educational and hilarious journey from Pluto's discovery, through its rise never in public consciousness (by way of Disney), to the controversy about its planetary status, its ultimate downgrading, and the public's response to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065200</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael D Lemonick|title=The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding world of the Cosmos|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Nonon-one can ever look at the night skies above our heads as Galileo didfiction. The light pollution covering so much of our planet makes it impossible to see nearly as much as he might. ConverselyIf someone has made a nature series about, he would have adored living in a time such as ours – with the technology to show him so much he couldn't seesay, so much he darenAlaska (and boy aren't dream there are a lot of. Sitting happily between those two extremes was William Herschel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039306574X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sudhir Venkatesh|title=Gang Leader For A Day|rating=5|genre=Politics these days) and Society|summary=If you've ever wondered why young people join gangs, and what it's like wants to bring up a family surrounded by armed drug dealersmake another, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinatingwhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted to learn by observing But some nature programmes do have the poorprestige, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the University of Chicago. In 1989making, armed with a clipboard and a questionnaire, he visited the Robert Taylor Homes, a notorious housing project. Instead of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - BBC'How does it feel to be black and poor?' by selecting from 'very bad, somewhat bad, neither bad nor good, somewhat good, very good', he finds himself held hostage overnight by members of the Black Kings, s Blue Planet series has delivered a crack-dealing gang, at the behest of its charismatic local leader, J.Tsecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1783099593|title=13 Things That Don't Make SenseSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule
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|summary=Did you know 96% 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the cosmos is unaccounted for? That workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the Pioneer probes seem mid-twentieth century to be violating the laws of physics? That we might have already found life on Mars? That aliens might have made contact with us? Ohpresent day. Reading it, and why do we die? Why do we have sex? (Hopefully not in feel that she has studied everything that order). Do we really have free will? ''13 Things That Don't Make Sense'' might not make complete sense of all these, but it'll certainly fascinate you as it explains these has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and other questionsthe Kardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978170</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Desmond and James Moore Campbell_Astra|title=Darwin's Sacred CauseAd Astra: Race, Slavery and An illustrated guide to leaving the Quest for Human Originsplanet|author=Dallas Campbell
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|summary=This probably wonSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you't be d better study the whole history of human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only time you are told through 2009 there was a handy guide that could condense it would have been Charles Darwin's 200th birthday all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this year, and that it is 150 years since ''On The Origin of Species'' first appeared. This book however declares that second anniversary : An illustrated guide to be slightly of less importance, when you factor in leaving the biggest section of his evolutionary thinking Darwin left out of that book – that of human evolutionplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846140358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus ChownAdrian_Sock|title=Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt YouSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=43.5
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|summary=Classical physicsThe 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's something I use for the mostabout 200 days of every year, was concerned with at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and reasonably good other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at explaining) mediumthe opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-scale phenomena: and still nowmurderer of women, as when they were discoveredTed Bundy, Newton's laws allow us who was into stealing credit cards to quite accurately predict behaviour fund his desire of roughly human-scale objectshaving a fresh pair every single day. Newton's laws and classical physics in generalOn which subject, fail when dealing with extremes the amount of them we create every year could stack to the largest freaking moon and the smallestmore. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, the fastest and the slowestwhich is plain stupid. I''Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You''m talking, as you can tell, subtitled ''A Guide to the Universe'' actually presents two revolutionary theories of modern physics: Quantum Mechanics which deals with the tiniest, atomic and sub-atomic scales and Einstein's general relativity which deals with the largest, cosmological scalehumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571235468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Martin Germano_Eye|title=Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of PleasureEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano
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|summary=True It's happened to its titleme, 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'Sexve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, Drugs and ChocolateI've come away with glasses I don' is t need to wear all about pleasure: sensual as well as cerebralthe time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, low level or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and fairly innocent as well as orgiastically excessive beyond that I've stared at – and decidedly not-so-innocent. It explores social as well as biological aspects got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of pleasure and throughout various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the book relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's not ageless, but the historicalscientific progress that led to it, sociological and anecdotal is interspersed with medicalthe changes other people made to it, physiological and psychologicalthe cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007127081</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick TaslerBall_Wonders|title=The Impulse FactorWonders Beyond Numbers: Why Some Of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Nick Tasler works for TalentSmart®, an American company which provides research, testing and training for the business world. The company's core business promotes Emotional Intelligence, so whether impulsivity in decision-making is good or bad is an interesting sideline. The American edition has already won a Best Career Book of 2008 award, so my perception is that up-and-coming managers may find it useful in their personal development portfolio. A more general readership may find it less riveting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847374220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Lindstrom|title=Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy Is Wrong|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Considering the amount Brief History of money spent on advertising and the staggering sizes of corporate marketing budgets, it's astonishing to what extent it's unclear what exactly those huge amounts of money buy. Lord Lever famously said that half of the money spent on advertising is wasted - but he had no way of knowing which half.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940110</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAll Things Mathematical|author=John D Barrow|title=Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science Johnny Ball
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|summary=John D. Barrow is one Like many people of the most passionate popularisers of sciencea ''certain age, and he's also one ' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the most noticeably filled with wonder and joy virtues of the discovery maths and capable of transmitting this joy science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and wonder to his readers. actually making these subjects ''Cosmic Imageryfun.'' is veritably filled with such wonderAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, and following the old adages his latest book proves that he has lost none of one picture being worth a thousand words his passion and each picture telling a story, it's subtitled ''key images in the history of science'': each of the eighty nine essays making up the book indeed has an image as a starting pointenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075233</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowYong_Contain|title=100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know |rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=I love those collections that appear at ChristmasContain Multitudes: '77 places to visit before you die', '39 facts you would never suspect about the microbes within us and a Reliant Robin', '101 tips for making your wife a bedroom goddess...' Some grander view of these collections have not much utility beyond stocking-filling and providing a mild diversion from the Boxing Day boredom, the best are genuinely educational as well as fascinating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920039</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewlife|author=George Johnson|title=The Ten Most Beautiful ExperimentsEd Yong
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