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Paul Taylor is our Reviews Editors. Paul is a professional musician. When he is not on the road with various jazz and Latin bands, he is developing and promoting two of his own inventions: The Blowpipes Trombone Trio, and Trombone Poetry, a solo project.
What Makes Your Brain Happy: And Why You Should Do the Opposite – David DiSalvo
Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-483-8
Swimming against the toxic tide of baseless "self-help" books, DiSalvo offers us a "science-help" book, and a very generous offering it...
How To Become A Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions – Christopher W. DiCarlo
Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-397-8
Given the morass of tree-wasting texts in the figmentalist section of any bookshop, an addition to the skeptical counter-attack is welcome...
Science Tales: lies, hoaxes and scams – Darryl Cunningham
Myriad Editions, ISBN 978-0-9567926-8-6
There are people for whom the term, "graphic novel", seems an over-inflated alternative to "comic book", and, given the non-fictional nature...
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing – Andrew Bennett & Nicholas Royle
Routledge ISBN 978-1-40-825401-1
Hundreds of novels jostle on shelves, waiting to be seen to. In the corner, a ziggurat of poetry books flutters its pages....
Rocket: Owners’ Workshop Manual – David Baker
Haynes Manuals, ISBN 10: 0857333712
Now that people feel that they can't mend their own cars, Haynes Manuals seem to be turning their attention to...
The Impostor: BHL in Wonderland – Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte
Counterblasts, Verso Books, ISBN 978-1-84467-748-1
Donning rubber gloves and waders, two French journalists help each other stay upright as they sift through the verbiage and...
Origins: the scientific story of creation – Jim Baggott
OUP
ISBN: 9780198707646
This is a fasten-your-seat-belt ride all the way from the Planck Epoch to the dawning of consciousness, the consciousness that the world has...
A Numerate Life by John Allen Paulos
Prometheus, ISBN 1633881180
As an avid reader of Paulos's books since the 1990s - such as Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences, and Beyond Numeracy:...
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