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Bad Science

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Review: Best read I have had for a good few months. I got hold of a copy of the book during Christmas and finished it within 3 days. Coming from a science background, I can only say that I cannot treat the misinformation, manipulation and exploitation by the media and pha....

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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions

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Review: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions This is a must for the loo! Open any page and its fun. The problem is when you meet and greet, the facts are all in your head and you can't wait to share them.....

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Outliers: The Story of Success

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Review: I always argued with friends that we never quite know how a successful individual or a company as made it big. Of course we all know about the endless working hours, the "talented" individual and the help of a focused team. But if this was the rule we will have ha....

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

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Description: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week. This board book edition of....

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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

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Review: this book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought were rather boring, and on the whole though i haven t read it all through yet it does seem to the makings of a very....

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How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist

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Review: I've had this book for a little while, I loved reading the experiments even though I didn't try them. I've put the book aside for my grandchildren, who at 7 and 6 are embryonic 'Blue Peter kids' who are just going to love having a go at the experiments contained wi....

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Review: Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repeatedly hammering home one point that anyone with a degree of critical thinking will b....

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

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Review: I'm not a scientist. I have only a passing interest in the history of science. However, I'm c250 pages in and I am gripped. Holmes has the narrative skill of a great novelist, conjuring worlds and characters out of what could have so easily have been dry facts. Sta....

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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

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Review: The book is an assemblage of good answers to some good questions. So why didn't I enjoy it? I think because in keeping faith with the contributors of answers, several answers to one question are included and a lot of each answer is the same, though expressed sli....

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The God Delusion

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Review: 'The God Delusion' - perhaps the clue is in the title. Opening this book and finding the author happily concluding that religious belief is reasonable would come as something of a surprise. 'You are all quite right to believe as you do' would be a dull book. We sho....

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