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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonah Lehrer1787333175|title=Proust Was a NeuroscientistYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45
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|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay'Time hath, my lords first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a wallet at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivion'. This fully accords with glorious mixture of insight into the discoveries workings of modern brain sciencethe NHS, humour and autobiography. Proust in his famous novel, ''In Search of Lost TimeYou Don' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientists, such as Rachel Hertz, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly t Have to the hippocampusbe Mad.. Thus the taste of a petit madeleine evokes a rediscovery by Proust of Combray and a flow of associations - it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centred. Lehrer in ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves an intriguing argument about promised the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the novels work of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], has a taste for philosophy; Lehrer intends to heal the rift between what Cpsychiatrist.P.Snow termed the 'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the truths laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers it is always delivered with empathy and paintersunderstanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lister-Kaye1788360702|title=At the Water's EdgeCharles, The Alternative Prince: A Walk in the WildAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=34|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly aboutFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and one with which I must confess to having a love/hate relationship! complementary therapies. I loved ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the detailed observationPrince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the sharing of knowledge that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study background of the countrysidescientific evidence. He delights in There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and pays as much attention his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the structure reputation of a spider's web as man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcathis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart0192779230|title=Mathematics Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of LifeGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Mathematics and biology don't traditionally mixGerms' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. As science develops, In the boundaries between maths and physicsfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, physics OUP and chemistry and chemistry and biology Isabel Thomas have become more and more blurred. As it is now, biology requires many mathematical techniques, provided a clear and it's fair accessible introduction to assume that major biological breakthroughs over the next hundred years will also have a strong basis in maths tooworld of germs. Ian Stewart looks We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the major steps forward in 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 history of biologytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and the areas where maths is at the forefront of developmentviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681987</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Jamesgareth_steel|title=The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob BronowskiNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Jacob Bronowski was I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a scientific administrator, poet, philosopher, dramatist, radio 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 personality, best remembered for show the series author would argue that ''All Creatures'The Ascent of Man'lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. This short Gareth Steel says that the book, about 90 pages long, is partly biographical sketch, partly – in fact largely – an overview of his major published works, occupying about twonot suitable for younger readers and - after reading -thirds of the bookI agree with him. In the authorHe says that he's wordswritten it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopherdoesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402200</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Carroll0241480442|title=From Eternity to HereHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of TimeVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
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|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=The Prologue sets out what this book is about. It's about ' ... the nature of timeEmotionally, the beginning of the universe, and the underlying structure of physical reality.' OK? Bring on those questions. Yes, it's I am a weighty tome in terms of size and subject matter, but I would certainly describe the front cover as reader-friendly, so therefore should have broad appealvegan. I love the title of this bookMentally, lots of thought has been put into it and it certainly grabbed my attention - and I'm no scientist. The classic movie from the classic book ... I also loved Carroll's language - 'The Elegant Universe' and 'am a preposterous universe' These are phrases to make you stop and thinkvegan. And I certainly did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687955</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Rowland Smith|title=Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Driving with Plato'' is a companion book to read [[Breakfast with Socrates How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with SocratesHenry Mance]], and was appalled by the way in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interestingwe treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Here Practically, in the company of I am not a similarly eclectic range of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of vegan. It worked for a life, while apart from birth, through school and riding the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a bike, perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a midanimal-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age and deathbased protein. Montaigne said It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that to philosophise tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to learn how to die, and here Roland Smith ensures that we think about each stage leading up to that momentget sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark StevensonDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=An Optimist's Tour of the Future|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future we would soon be living in. In terms of technological advancement we're not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time for a revised view of what is to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde|title=Sleights of MindTattoo on my Brain
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|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=I have Alzheimer's is a passing interest in both magic disease that slowly wears away your identity and neurosciencesense of self. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladieshave been directly affected by this cruel disease, but I was also very keen to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''as have many. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, Your memories and as personality worn away like a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed statue over time affected the [http://illusioncontestelements.neuralcorrelate.com/ Illusion of the Year contest]. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you andyour dignity.This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable..) and Johnny Thompson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle Daniel Gibbs is bound to get your juices flowing: ''a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elementshas documented his journey in ''. As far as popular science books goes, itA Tattoo on my Brain's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Cohen0099551063|title=Mind GamesThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: 31 Days to Rediscover Your BrainLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton
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|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Hare1849767343|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Well? Why can't elephants jump? And while The title and format of this book might lead youto think that it're pondering that, think s either about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? Whatresponsibility - or it's the hole a basic 1-2-3 book for in a ballpoint pen? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questions, and so many more, then do yourself a favour and pick up those just starting out on the latest collection from the New Scientistnumbers journey. It isn's [httpt://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick Oit'Hare was also kind enough s a hymn of praise to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick Omaths. It'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]]s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry NichollsB08B39QNRH|title=The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of ChinaWriter's Political AnimalCramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard
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|summary=The book cover alone, with its panda hugging a tree, says 'buy me', 'read me.' A good start. The sections are divided into no-nonsense headings: Extraction, Abstraction and Protection. Maps and Prologue give a flavour of what's to come. The inside front cover states boldly that Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago.' I think it safe to say that many of us would probably say automatically, without thinking, that the panda has immense appeal. But is it only because of the beautifully marked eyes which give the animal a cuddly, teddy bear look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683688</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Roach1776572858|title=Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in SpaceHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Space is bigIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Really big. And it My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she's d get me a long way away, toobook about it. A couple of days later I meanwas handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, I'm having enough trouble deciding what to pack for a year in Africa. clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and Iwas told that it wouldn'd t be hopeless if I were off to Mars. But then, no-onediscussed any further as it 's written a book on what to stick in your suitcase for Sierra Leone. And Mary Roach 'wasn'hast something which nice people talked about'' written a book on what to take to the red planet... ExceptI ''knew'' more, this is so much more than a shopping listbut was little ''wiser''. This is the definitive inside scoop for anyone who has ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in a world that is, well Thankfully, out of this worldtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687807</amazonuk>
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|summary=Essential for We are living in a tightrope walkertime of rapid change, prized as an intellectual objectiveand we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, balance is generally considered something natural and probably good for us. We are designed to which worry and with the current state of what we can aspire're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. We praise someone who makes a balanced decisionHowever, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we envy people who have a 'good work/life balanceshouldn' t be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we offer an opinion 'on balance' to demonstrate that re worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we have considered various arguments think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and optionsthe direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geoffrey MillerLangford_Emily|title=Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We BuyEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no one limit to how far you can tell 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 differencelist were even numbers, why shell out $30 000 for a real Rolex but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when a you counted in threes which she called ''threeven'mere' $1200 will get you . (Actually, this confused me a virtually identical replica? Why do luxury manufacturers such little bit at first as BMW spend money advertising in mass media whose typical readership most likely wonthey't ever re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be able to afford their products? And just why is a subset of the ''i'' in iPod so important?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437929</amazonuk>even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Bueno de Mesquita1910593508|title=Prediction: How to See Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Shape the Future with Game TheoryMike Collins|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=As This incredible graphic novel is a rather mediocre recreational poker player I've often been intrigued love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by game theoryMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. The academic discipline used by politicos during the chilliest days This is a story we know well and because of this, the Cold War has been utilised by authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the more mathematically minded players on blanks. These shortcuts are the professional circuit only downside to improve profitabilitythe book. Rather than poker, author 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 politics professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory models to forecast political, economic that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and international security scenarios and in Prediction he shares some of his secretsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531844</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Dee1999308719|title=The Running SkyLive Forever Manual: A BirdScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-Watching Lifeaging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Tim Dee may already be known For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to you as a distinguished critic live forever and adjudicator of contemporary poetrythat so far, or for producing BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'. So it's hardly surprising that my first impression of his birdwatching memoir, ''The Running Sky'' is of poetic exactitude transferred to another genrewas working out OK. But Time has passed though and although I remain dazzled by the sustained quality '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 his writing over 80,000 wordsbalance. Opened at any pageIt was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, paragraphs of graceful prose enclose figurative language capturing the very essence of flight (hence reviewing gods brought me the title, from a Philip Larkin poem)book I needed. To Dee''Live Forever Manual: Science, flight is ethics and companies behind the nub of a birdnew anti-ageing treatments''s independence. He describes and wonders poetically – be it seemed like the collective sweep of flock formations, the mysteries of migration, or individual observations of nightjars, carrion crows or peregrinesanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bloom1847941834|title=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We LikeAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=How much would you pay for a jumper I've said this before but there are some books that used to belong to Brad Pitt? What about if I had it dry cleaned for you first? Chances areseek out, if some books that you were considering the first offer, stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you've just been put off somewhat. But why? The jumper hasn't changedreally MUST read them, after all. Do you honestly and rationallylike, believe that dry cleaning would destroy some of Bradright now! ''s Atomic Habits'essence', thus making is in the item less valuable?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847921434</amazonuk>last category.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FarndonHoneyborne BlueII|title=Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge QuestionsBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My history You may well remember when the sticking of interviews with Oxbridge colleges forms a very short dialoguenumber '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. MeThat has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to university admissions representative, ''You don’t actually do media studies per se, do the cinema - you?'' He, ''No – our graduates run the media.'' Had I barely got a lot furtherTV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and sat never in front the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a potential tutornature series about, I would have faced say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a question designed lot of those these days) and wants to bafflemake another, provokewhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, bewilder – or to inspire a flight of intuitive intelligence. Thus is the media-running wheat separated from energy and the mediaheft to demand follow-consuming chaffups. And thus is this book given its basis – sixty of after five years in the more remarkable questionsmaking, answered as our erudite author might have wished to answer themthe BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831132X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Sanders1783099593|title=Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule
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|summary=Fans 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of ‘’House, Mgender.D.’’ may recognise the name of Lisa Sanders. She’s the technical advisor to the TV show as well as being the writer It looks at our use of the ‘’Diagnosis’’ column language in the New York Times. Many of the stories which appear in the column are recounted in this bookmedia, education, religion, which is a look at the way in which doctors reach a diagnosis workplace and how the method has changed (or not) over the yearspersonal relationships. I’m not a fan Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the hospital dramas which seem mid-twentieth century to be a major feature of the TV schedulespresent day. Reading it, but I was fascinated by what is, essentially, a series of medical detective storieswe 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>1848311338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan KleinCampbell_Astra|title=Leonardo's LegacyAd Astra: How Da Vinci Reinvented An illustrated guide to leaving the Worldplanet|author=Dallas Campbell
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|summary=Take fifty So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of science's most thought-provoking theories, and try human space flight to get up to explain each in thirty seconds or one pagespeed. It's That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all here, from Schrodinger's cat, down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to cosmic topology, via leaving the Gaia hypothesis and chaos theoryplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831129X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark GriffithsAdrian_Sock|title=The Lotus Quest|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. I know this because his brief biog in the front of The Lotus Quest tells me so; just as it tells me that he is the editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening 'the largest work on horticulture ever published'. His prior works list includes five other plant book credits, three of them for the RHS. I shall take all of this on trust, since attempts to find out more about the author and his background through the usual internet search mechanisms has failed miserably. He remains as elusive as the sacred flower that is the subject of this latest work: the lotus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595100X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and StuffKim Adrian|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this is the book for you3. If you're interested in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes and stuff], then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full of all the information you'd want to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Bellos|title=Alex's Adventures In Numberland|rating=5
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|summary=Maths is a wonderful thing. ...WaitThe subject of this book has been around for several millennia, donand yet my partner't run aways daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It really is. The way numbers interact with each 's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and otherpeople to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, the way counting systems developedTed Bundy, how mathematical breakthroughs are coming from the world who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of crochethaving a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, and how people can mentally calculate the 13th root amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a 200 digit number in almost less time than it takes to read it out loudyear, apparently, which is plain stupid. ThereI's all sorts m talking, as you can tell, of weird and wonderful stuff going on in Numberlandthe humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597162</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ForteyGermano_Eye|title=The Hidden LandscapeEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano|rating=4.5
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|summary=The purpose It's happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of this book is certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to explore prove the connection between correction needed to my vision to make me see with the landscape intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the geology underlying itback of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, which in one of his many vivid similes Fortey compares I've had different tests to check the surface personality pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the workings of the unconscious mind beneath. He starts by describing a journey he once made time, but certainly benefit from Paddington Station to Haverford Weston holiday, or when watching TV or a market town in Pembrokeshire cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and with it a passage back into got wrong – the plutonic depths simple, seemingly ageless test, of geological aeons, indicated by the large 60cm monster trilobites various letters in various configurations that have been found diminish in size, to prove to the Cambrian rocks near St Davidrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, it's. Fortey describes not ageless, but the magnificence of scientific progress that led to it, the Cathedral constructed from the local purple sandstone changes other people made to it, and mottled with moisture-loving lichens. He contrasts this with the anonymous character of a nearby brightlycultural impact it's had are all on these eye-coloured service station, anonymous and synthetic, an invader cheaply built and out of contextopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920713</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra HorowitzBall_Wonders|title=Inside Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and KnowAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball
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|summary=How warm is Like many people of a warm day? Or rather, given the weather at the moment''certain age, how chilly is a chilly day? Is it better to know '' I want a small helping have fond memories of peas, or tuning in to know that I want 82 peas? There are times when vagueness is more useful than being specificwatch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun. Kees van Deemter makes this point'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, sharing many examples from a number his latest book proves that he has lost none of fields, including maths, philosophy, linguistics his passion and AIenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199545901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Druin BurchYong_Contain|title=Taking I Contain Multitudes: the Medicinemicrobes within us and a grander view of life|author=Ed Yong
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|summary=In 1898, Burch points out that The world you know is a new drug was developed and marketed for the treatment of tuberculosis by Bayer & Colie. TB There is no such an ancient enemy of man that there is apparently evidence of an earlier strain to be found in Egyptian mummiesthing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. The German firm had discovered a chemical that seemed Things designed to work well, save us may kill us and patients and indeed their own staff, who were tested seemed things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to respond well - it was named Heroin - and its addictive effects were at first missedthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951506</amazonuk>
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