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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Roger Scruton|title=I Drink Therefore I Am|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Roger Scruton is a conservative philosopher and composer, best known for his work on philosophy and music, but who shares Plato's belief that 'nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the gods to man' and in this book seeks to combine his two interests of philosophy and the fruits of the vine.|amazonuk= <amazonuk>1847065082</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Laidler1787333175|title=Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Animals'' is described as a visual guide to the animal kingdom, but please don't think of it as a picture book as it's far more than that. You Don't think of it as a coffee table book either – despite the fact that its size – midway between A2 and A3 – might tempt you to think that way. It's a journey through the complex diversity of the animal kingdom based on sound scientific principles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916004X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Butterworth|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There aren't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all know, too, that the world's population growth is on a collision course with the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going Have to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Wrangham |title=Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human |rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Humans are cooking apes. According to Richard Wrangham, mastery of fire and cooking of the food that resulted from it was at the root of human evolutionary development and ultimate success. Various factors have been proposed as the crucial stimulus which led to the appearance of the first recognisably human creatures: leaving aside divine intervention (be it from God, extra-terrestrials or future humans travelling in time), the candidates for what made our ancestral apes stand straighter and start growing brains range from socialised hunting to chattering about kinship to eating seafood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexandra Bruce|title=2012: Science or Superstition|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The fuss about 2012 has not started just recently. The first book Mad to feature the story was from a Yale professor, in 1966. We've also had prog rock bands named after Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth. But as the crunch date of December 21st, 2012 - the winter solstice that year - nears, it's becoming a very big story indeed. Even though it sounds absurd - the end of a 5,125-year long cycle of the Maya calendar, which started on August 13th, 3114BCE - or was judged to start then, when they came across this concept a couple of thousand years into that period. Surely they couldn't predict the future from their 'primitive' state with such accuracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934708283</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWork Here|author=Stephen Baker|title=They've Got Your NumberBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you are in the slightest bit paranoid, worry that I was tempted to read ''Big BrotherYou Don'' is always watching or like t Have to believe that you are not a number, but a free man (or woman), then this may not be the book for you, as it will do nothing Mad to dispel any of those worries. If, on the other hand, you think Work Here''the mathematical modelling of humanityafter enjoying Adam Kay' sounds like one of the sexiest things ever, and are chomping at the bit to learn more about it, then you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to say.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>}} s first book {{newreviewamazonurl|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1509858636|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary='''BANG'''. That's the sound This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of copious urban myths being shot down. '''BANG'''. That's insight into the sound workings of the old wives slamming the doorNHS, as their tales get revealed as baselesshumour and autobiography. ''You Don'CLICKt Have to be Mad...'''. That's promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the noise lots work of ill-informed websites make as they get closed downa psychiatrist. All noises come due I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this brilliant booksetting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith 1788360702|title=Breakfast with SocratesCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=In ''Breakfast with Socrates''For over forty years, subtitled A Philosophy Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Everyday Life, former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith takes various elements of a alternative medicine and complementary therapies. 'typical' day and provides insight into what an eclectic collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interesting. After allCharles, as Socrates declared The Alternative Prince''critically assesses the unexamined life is not worth living'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Hannam|title=GodPrince's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid opinions, beliefs and aims against the Foundations background of Modern Science|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Everybody knows that the Medieval people thought the world was flat and that it wasn't until Columbus proved otherwise that they found out it was a spherescientific evidence. Everybody knows that the inquisition burned people at the stake for their scientific ideas There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and that Copernicus lived in perpetual fear his relentless promotion of persecution. Everyone knows that treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the Pope banned human dissection and the number zeroreputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, and everybody is wronglogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310706</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Comic Strip History Invisible World of SpaceGerms|author=Isabel Thomas
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|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us 'Germs' seems to have become a [[The Comic Strip History of catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of potential to make you ill. In the World]]first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have now turned their attention provided a clear and accessible introduction to space. They explain to children everything from the origins world of the universe, to germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what ancient civilisations they thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering caused them and how the truth about planets, right up to current space missions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Ian Stewart thinking has been collecting mathematical curiosities, puzzles and stories since he was 14developed over time. He published his The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Cabinet which explains some of Mathematical Curiositiesthe trickiest concepts and you'' in 2008ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and hot on its success, he's sharing this second volume with ushow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Haregareth_steel|title=How To Make A TornadoNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Another year, another must-read book from 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 New Scientist. Wecompanion volume you've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick Olooking for. As a TV show the author would argue that 'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why Don't PenguinsAll Creatures' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O- after reading - I agree with him. He says that he'Hare|hamsters]]s written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. Now It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn's time to turn our attention to how to make a tornadot lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over the yearseating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Hoffman0241480442|title=Time (Big Ideas)Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
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|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=''Time'' is one of ''Big Ideas'' series of books aiming Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to revisit Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the greatest notions and concepts and to provide them with way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a modern summary and understandingvegan. The series strives It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cause people to think and debate, cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to reanimal-evaluate and doubtbased protein. Another It wasn''Big Ideas'' books deal with topics such t the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as ''Democracy'', ''Identity'' and ''Bodies''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680387</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Why Does E Equal mc Squared?A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=Why does E=mc² and why should we care? Two questions that every intelligent person should be able to answer, but IAlzheimer'll bet s is a disease that 95% couldn't. Brian Cox slowly wears away your identity and Jeff Forshaw explain this most famous sense of equations to the layperson in such a way that they won't need anything more complicated than Pythagoras' theorem to understand itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306817586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tadg Farrington|title=The Average Life of the Average Person|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Back in schoolI have been directly affected by this cruel disease, we would often bemoan the idea of 'average', saying that as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like being 'normal', if there were such a thing, who would even want to be it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being average. Exceptstatue 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.there Daniel Gibbs is by definition a whole lot worse than neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'average' – the exact same amount that is better than average, in fact. And that was the problem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard D Ryder0099551063|title=NelsonThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Hitler Spies and DianaSerial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton
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|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, a navy officer of great renown, forever thrusting himself into the limelight, doing it because his mother passed away when he was nine? Was '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler overly affected by his father dying in a time of paternal disapproval, and a kind of Oedipal reaction to being the man in the house making him suffer when she herself died? And can Diana, Princess of Waleson psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.' parents' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Sutherland1849767343|title=IrrationalityCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The belief that humans are, essentially, rational dates to the Greek antiquity, title and although intellectual and philosophical fashions changed throughout the epochs, the capacity format of this book might lead you to reason and behave in think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a rational manner is often considered to be basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it's a defining characteristics hymn of mature humanitypraise to maths. Irrational behaviours have been seen as an evidence of psychiatric or otherwise pathology It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905177070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian DunningB08B39QNRH|title=Skeptoid 2The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard
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|summary=Brian Dunning is the author responsible for a series of weekly podcasts debunking and analysing a variety of dubious, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent in the pop (and not so pop) culture. ''Skeptoid 2'' Society is essentially a written version of those podcasts, a collection of fifty pieces of which many can be also read or listened to at his [http://skeptoid.com/ website].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Gardner|title=Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Picture a world terrorised by just two words. A civilised, healthy, wealthy world no less, in thrall to and under threat from two words. Not what those two words represent even, just the actual small phrase. It sounds ridiculous, based on speech but when I say those two words – ''bird flu'' – and you've stopped laughing, you may well remember how civilisation requires the panic started, the non-existent worry was the biggest concern of the western media for some time, and then it went away again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Iain McCalman|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>}} {{newreview|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'', ''Flowwritten word'' and ''Branches'', with new material added.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199237964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Gribbin and Michael White|title=Darwin: A Life in Science|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=This straightforward and likeable biography of Charles Darwin charts the evolution of his theories of evolution, while providing solid insights into the man in the context of his upbringing, education and family life. Importantly, it makes you want to read ''On the Origin of the Species'', acting as a primer for the ideas introduced in that famous volume.
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'Darwin: A Life in ScienceI prefer the word 'painful' is pitched beautifully for but I have an interest in the reader way that hands work. An exploration of popular science, yet gives plenty the history of signposts enabling future study. It also gives a very believable picture problem which has defeated some of Darwinthe best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, based on convincing evidence with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and without falling into florid psychological speculationthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391494</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Fara1776572858|title=Science: A Four Thousand Year HistoryHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|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 more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that you gain she'd get me a sufficient understanding book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the science basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and the people involved. It serves I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as a simple reference guide for the layperson - it's riddled with information, whilst also being perfectly readable as a 'biography of sciencewasn'. If you ever wanted to know anything t something which nice people talked about the history of science, this is the book for you''. Patricia Fara was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks to Patricia Fara|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019922689X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil deGrasse Tyson|title=The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America I ''s Favourite Planet|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson grouped the celestial bodies by type, rather than listing them under the arbitrary heading of knew'planets'. This put Mercurymore, Venus, Earth and Mars together in one group, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune together in another, and left poor but was little Pluto out in the cold. His aim was for people to gain a greater understanding, rather than just knowing the names. The result was widespread outrage amongst newspapers, schoolchildren and the public at large. It was a scientifically-sound position, and ultimately fuelled the International Astronomical Union to define what was and wasn't a planet'wiser''. The Pluto Files is a fascinating Thankfully, educational and hilarious journey from Pluto's discovery, through its rise in public consciousness (by way of Disney), to the controversy about its planetary status, its ultimate downgrading, and the public's response to ittimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065200</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael D LemonickDanny Dorling|title=The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the CosmosSlowdown
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|summary=If you've ever wondered why young people join gangsWe are living in a time of rapid change, and what we're worried about it's like to bring up a family surrounded by armed drug dealers. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinatingnatural and probably good for us. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted We are designed to learn by observing worry and with the poor, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors current state of what we're doing in the University of Chicagoworld we have much to be worried about. In 1989 However, armed with a clipboard over the next three-hundred-and a questionnaire-some pages, he visited if you can follow the Robert Taylor Homesarguments, a notorious housing project. Instead of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn'How does it feel to t be black and poor?' by selecting from 'very badas worried as we are, somewhat bad, neither bad nor good, somewhat good, very goodor in some cases that we', he finds himself held hostage overnight by members of re worrying about the Black Kingswrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, a crack-dealing gangthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, at the behest rate of its charismatic local leader, J.Tchange in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141030917</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BrooksLangford_Emily|title=13 Things That DonEmily't Make Senses Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Did 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 know 96% 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 cosmos is unaccounted for? That list were even numbers, but the Pioneer probes seem to be violating the laws other half was odd and it was this list of physics? That we might have already found life on Mars? That aliens might have made contact with us? Oh, and why do we die? Why do we have sex? (Hopefully not odd numbers which occurred when you counted in that order). Do we really have free will? threes which she called ''13 Things That Donthreeven't Make Sense'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' might not make complete sense re a subset of all thesethe odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but it'll certainly fascinate you as all worked out well when I really thought about it explains these and other questions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978170</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Desmond and James Moore 1910593508|title=Darwin's Sacred Cause: RaceApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Slavery Chris Baker and the Quest for Human OriginsMike Collins
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|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=This probably wonincredible 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't ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the only time you slight feeling that there are told through 2009 scenes missing and that it would dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been Charles Darwinthree times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I's 200th birthday this year, ve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it is 150 years since was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I''On The Origin 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 Species'' first appearedbalance. This book however declares that second anniversary It was time to be slightly of less importancelook for a new approach and as so often happens, when you factor in the biggest section of his evolutionary thinking Darwin left out of that reviewing gods brought me the book – that of human evolutionI 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846140358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Chown1847941834|title=Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt YouAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Classical physics, for the most, was concerned with (and reasonably good at explaining) medium-scale phenomena: and still now, as when they were discovered, Newton's laws allow us to quite accurately predict behaviour of roughly human-scale objects. NewtonI's laws and classical physics in generalve said this before but there are some books that you seek out, fail when dealing with extremes of the largest some books that you stumble across and the smallestsome books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, the fastest and the slowest. ''Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You''like, subtitled 'right now! 'A Guide to the Universe'Atomic Habits' 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 is in the largest, cosmological scalelast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571235468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Martin Honeyborne BlueII|title=Sex, Drugs Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Chocolate: The Science of PleasureMark Brownlow
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=True You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to its titlehave something more. That has hardly been proven correct, ''Sexbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, Drugs and Chocolate'' is all never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about pleasure: sensual as well as cerebral, low level say, Alaska (and fairly innocent as well as orgiastically excessive boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and decidedly notwants to make another, why she just makes another -so-innocentnothing would justify the numeral. It explores social as well as biological aspects of pleasure But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and throughout the book heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the historicalmaking, sociological and anecdotal is interspersed with medical, physiological and psychologicalthe BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007127081</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Tasler1783099593|title=The Impulse Factor: Why Some Of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It AllSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule
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|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 decisionSpeaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter -making is good or bad is an interesting sidelinehow language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. The American edition has already won a Best Career Book It looks at our use of 2008 awardlanguage in media, so my perception is that up-education, religion, the workplace and-coming managers may find it useful in their personal development portfoliorelationships. 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 Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of money spent on advertising and research from the staggering sizes of corporate marketing budgets, it's astonishing mid-twentieth century to what extent the present day. Reading it's unclear what exactly those huge amounts of money buy. Lord Lever famously , we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said that half of on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the money spent on advertising is wasted - but he had no way of knowing which halfKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940110</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowCampbell_Astra|title=Cosmic ImageryAd Astra: Key Images in An illustrated guide to leaving the History of Science planet|author=Dallas Campbell
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|summary=John D. Barrow is one of So… you want to leave the most passionate popularisers of science, and heplanet? Before you do you's also one of d better study the most noticeably filled with wonder and joy whole history of the discovery and capable of transmitting this joy and wonder human space flight to get up to his readersspeed. ''Cosmic Imagery'' is veritably filled with such wonder, and following the old adages of one picture being worth That could take a thousand words and each picture telling while… if only there was a story, handy guide that could condense it's subtitled ''key images in the history of science''all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: each of An illustrated guide to leaving the eighty nine essays making up the book indeed has an image as a starting pointplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075233</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowAdrian_Sock|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 Christmas: '77 places to visit before you die', '39 facts you would never suspect about a Reliant Robin', '101 tips for making your wife a bedroom goddess...' Some 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>}} {{newreviewSock (Object Lessons)|author=George Johnson|title=The Ten Most Beautiful ExperimentsKim Adrian|rating=3.5
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|summary=''The Ten Most Beautiful Experimentssubject 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' looks 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 other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the most elegantscale to well-known mass-murderer of women, stylishTed Bundy, simplewho was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. On which subject, ground-breaking, thrilling the amount of them we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and inspiring experiments throughout historymore. There's Some idiots buy more than six pairs a real feel that this is how science should be done: one personyear, alone in a roomapparently, forming a hypothesis and creating a method to test itwhich is plain stupid. It doubles I'm talking, as a potted biography of some you can tell, of the greatest scientists ever, but it's more about the experiments themselves than the peoplehumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224071963</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P D SmithGermano_Eye|title=Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon Eye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano
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|summary=Having dallied with the odd CND march back in the It'70s-80ss happened to me, and while like as not normally a huge sci-fi fan (yet inordinately fond it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the receipt of certain creaky films like The Day The Earth Stood Still - which as well as offering underwhelming special effectslittle numerical results, grapples with huge ideas about a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the death intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of humankind) my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, I found a great deal 've had different tests to enjoy in check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don'Doomsday Ment 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 its history of weapons which may now be capable of entirely destroying the planetcultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141019158</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)Ball_Wonders|title=On the Origin Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of Species: The Illustrated Edition All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are books Like many people of a ''certain age,'' I think you have fond memories of tuning in to read, watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and there are books you have to read. This is one of the latter, science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and finally in a volume that goes a long way to actually making it one you these subjects ''fun.'' Although decades have to own – with the approach to this passed since those classic making this edition the definitive one TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for a long time to comehis subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402756399</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Toms and Paul SterryYong_Contain|title=Garden Birds I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and Wildlifea grander view of life|author=Ed Yong
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|genre=Home and FamilyPopular Science|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under the auspices of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher The world you know is, possibly in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA)a lie. Accordingly, the main focus of the guide There is, indeed, on birdsno such thing as good or bad microbes. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology Sickness and behaviour, including visual guides health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to eggs save us may kill us and nests; practical tips and guides things we think would kill us may save us. Welcome to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxesthe modern study of microbes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>
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