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Book reviews
Can scientists, academics, campaigners and communicators all work together to engage the public in taking action on climate change? It...
Robert Kunzig shows us the sheer splendour of our oceans in this fascinating book that documents the key developments in...
The Physicist in the title you will have heard of: Albert Einstein, patent clerk turned genius, inventor of E=mc2, origin...
Little Boy, the first atomic bomb, was dropped over Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945. To coincide with the 70th...
2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of Ebola. From the first case in March 2014, we all...
It's interesting to contemplate what has really changed about the way we see the world in ones own lifetime. Many major...
The Generation is Holly Cave’s first novel, set in a dystopian London of the mid twenty-first century, in a future...
As CEO of OKCupid, one of the biggest dating websites worldwide, Christian Rudder is in possession of some BIG data....
I’m a big fan of the brain. The three books I most recently read were about the brain (no, really)....
Book review Edited by Sam Parc (foreword by Dara Ó Briain) Oxford University Press In mathematics anything is possible, even...
You may have heard that gender inequalities are a natural part of the human condition. Once you understand the science...
Dr Peter Hotez ASM Press As Dr Peter Hotez notes in the second edition of Forgotten People Forgotten Diseases, thanks...
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen Ebury Press Terry Pratchett once again teams up with mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist...
Robin R. Murphy MIT Press Robots are becoming an integral part of managing global calamities as they can be sent...
By Daniel Pick Oxford University Press ‘The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind’ looks at the position of psychoanalysts during the...
This isn’t just another way of imagining what future technologies can do for us. There are no promises that we’ll use...
Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms Peter Atkins Oxford University Press (2013) As a general rule, an author shouldn’t apologise...
It seems that modern physics is in trouble – it has become a mess of free parameters, over inflated theories...
Peter Atkins' new book accompanies the reader into a fascinating tour of chemistry: its core concepts (atoms, ions, molecules, bonds…),...
The Cosmic Gallery: The Most Beautiful Images of the Universe Giles Sparrow Quercus (2013) Some stories can’t be told with...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach Oneworld Publications (2013) Only a lucky few have had their arms squeezed...
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts Emily Anthes Oneworld Publications (2013) Dolphins with prosthetic tails, spy beetles...
With two blockbuster movies in five years, the original novels still in the top 100 most read books, and the...
Africa, the BBC’s most daring and technologically advanced nature series to date, gave millions of viewers an insight into some...
Strong in the Rain By Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill Palgrave Macmillan (2012) On 11 March 2011, a 9.0 magnitude...
UK Conference of Science Journalists 25 June 2012 The Royal Society, London "I think every writer, every journalist, every scholar,...
The Universe Explained to My Grandchildren - explained to my fifteen-year-old sister RRP: £6.00 Publisher: Salammbo Press Target audience: children/young adult Hello...
World Wide Mind: The coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet by Michael Chorost World Wide Mind is a...
The story of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cancer cells gave rise to the famous HeLa cellline is...
