An excellent book. I have enjoyed Ben Goldacre's colum in the Guardian for some time. I initially thought his book was going to be simply a collection of those articles; it is far more than ...
Boring!!!! (for your friends). 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 an...
There is a tide in the affairs of men. "There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and ...
It got me interested in magic squares . 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 ...
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 ...
Surprise: the ego trips a fuse. Never before have I felt the urge to advise amazon buyers not to buy a book. But there's a first time for everything. Sadly, this book is an intellectual and ...
The Dawkins Delusion - no science from a woolly-thinking fundamentalist. Dawkins is, if little else, at least consistent. This book follows his previous efforts at popular(ist) 'science', i...
A truly compelling history of science in the Enlightenment. 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...
I love this book - a great way of engaging children with science. 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 asid...
A good read, but probably only 8 woofs out of 10... ;o). I thought this book would be good based on word of mouth. I have seen some of Cesar's shows and some of the things he said and did,...