All Books articles – Page 4
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ReviewHow to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
The perfect ammunition to respond to racial discrimination should you encounter someone trying to justify their prejudice with science
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Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
A book questioning the normalcy of drinking, exploring personal and policy responses to excessive alcohol consumption
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The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
A book that aims to opens readers’ eyes to the fact-bending methods corporations employ to make profit
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The Chemical Reaction
Badass chemical engineer Jaqueline Silver’s second outing has it all: explosives, villains and periodic table-based code cracking
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
The story of a radioactive element from its rise to a cure-all ingredient to the downfall of an entire industry
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Podcast
Book club – Half Lives by Lucy Jane Santos
From radioactive spa treatments to liquid sunshine, this book traces a forgotten part of chemistry history
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Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
A book for anyone with an interest in science, death, Elizabethan literature and British history – or all of the above
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Project Cleansweep: Beyond the Post Military Landscape of the United Kingdom
A deep-dive into how the UK’s chemical and biochemical weapons impacted – and still impact – the British landscape and its citizens
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Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Your favourite disaster movies turned into case studies for the various ways in which all we are all doomed
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A Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe
The book designed to fill the reader with awe at the natural world, accessible to all ages and scientific backgrounds
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop
What have viruses, gun violence and the ice bucket challenge in common?
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Podcast
Book club – Three books on pandemics
We’re tackling the coronavirus information overload by discussing and comparing three books that offer different views on pandemics past and present
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Framed by a Smoking Gun: The Explosive Life of Colonel B D Shaw
An enchanting memoir of the chemist whose explosive lectures were almost shut down on safety grounds
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Journalist Ben Westhoff lifts the lid on the biggest drugs crisis to have ever hit the western world
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
A book about world-changing inventions, crammed with fascinating stories you’ve probably never heard of
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Podcast
Book club – The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez’s new book uncovers the human side of world-changing inventions
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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention
An informative book that is more technical account than personal biography
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Why Trust Science?
Eloquent, insightful and bold, this book is a must-read in our post-truth time
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From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present
An enjoyable exploration of the parallels between science fiction and science as long as you don’t expect a definite proof of how how sci-fi created the future
