Tag: book-review
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Nuts & Bolts
Nuts & Bolts; Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), by Roma Agrawal, Hodder & Stoughton, 2023, is a book I asked for and was given on my birthday last year. I was hopeless at physics at school. Our teacher, Mr Baker, seemed to have long since lost interest in the…
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Beaver bombs part I
A review of the first four chapters of Black Ops and Beaver Bombing; adventures with Britain’s wild mammals, by Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall, Oneworld, 2023 This is a fairly detailed review without, I hope, too many spoilers (although there is so much good stuff it has proved hard to resist some retelling), of the…