Book Reviews April 2009

The Learning Revolution Jonathan Solity Hodder Education, 2008 ISBN: 9780340928332 Most of us don't look particularly fondly back at language lessons at school, and probably don't feel that we got a great deal benefit from them. In Michel Thomas Method:The Learning Revolution Jonathan Solity explains how a different method of teaching has brought impressive results. Continued..

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Eternity Michael Hanlon Macmillan, 2009 ISBN: 9780230219311 As a species we tend to be very short term in our thinking - we are preoccupied with the way things are now, and find it hard to think that it may be otherwise. In Eternity: Our Next Billion Years Michael Hanlon tries to get away from such parochialism and looks at our prospects for the long term. Continued..

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Suffer and Survive Martin Goodman Pocket, 2007 ISBN: 9781416522300 The name Haldane is well known is scientific circles. J.S. might not be quite as well known as his son J.B.S. but he still has plenty of claims to fame. In Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J. S. Haldane Martin Goodman tells his story. Continued..

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Dry Store Room No 1 Richard Fortey HarperCollins, 2008 ISBN: 9780007209880 In his wanderings behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum Richard Fortey came across a room full of objects which don't quite fit anywhere, but which no one could bring themselves to throw away. But that isn't what this book is about. The room reminded Fortey of the sort of memories which come from working in the such a place for several decades. In Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum he tells us of some of these memories. Continued..

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The Lost City of Z David Grann Simon & Schuster, 2009 ISBN: 9781847374363 El Dorado - the stuff of legend. But could there really be anything there? In The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon David Grann tells the story of Colonel Percy Fawcett, who was determined to find out. Continued..

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The Art of Genes Enrico Coen Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN: 9780192862082 When you start to think about how an organism develops from a single cell you realise that it isn't as straightforward as it may seem. It isn't like creating an object from a blueprint, but the question is what is it like? In The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves Enrico Coen uses the metaphor of artistic creativity to describe the process of development. Continued..

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