In this comprehensive and highly readable Dr Bot, Blease tackles a wide range of issues, including some that are apposite for those working in schools.
Read MoreReview: Books A Manifesto - Or, How to Build a Library
A compelling read that's bound to make even the most well-read among us feel somewhat under-educated.
Read MoreReview: Algospeak-How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language
A fascinating insight into how language evolves and adjusts according to changes in culture.
Read MoreNeed a break? This book of short stories could be just the ticket!
The 39 stories in this collection span a hundred years, during which Polish society underwent seismic political change several times over.
Read MoreReview: Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters
An interesting look at how differently societies across the globe view and use technlogogy.
Read MoreReview: The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
The written word has endured for millennia, and herein you'll discover why.
Read MoreReview: Craftland: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
A book that offers a glimpse into the way traditional crafts were practised before the Industrial Revolution.
Read MoreQuick look: Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters
Chapters look at how technology is used around the world, online communities, and building a culturally just infrastucture, amongst other topics.
Read MoreQuick look: Artificially Gifted: Notes from a Post-Genius World
The author, Mechelle Gilford, explores how AI may render our usual way of interpreting the concept of “gifted” obsolete.
Read MoreQuick look: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives
Dr Bot discusses something I hadn’t really considered…
Read MoreReview: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition
Rovelli draws readers into his world by describing the development of theories that scientists have posited to try and explain our world and the universe beyond.
Read MoreReview: Dear Data
The authors spent a year sending each other postcards on a different theme each week, with pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreReview: Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity
What place might Blueprints merit on a teacher’s bookshelves?
Read MoreReview: Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World
This book could prove useful to schools keen to cultivate their own dedicated ‘back to nature’ area.
Read MoreReview: Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home
A couple of generations before the first internet cafés were opened, someone attempted pretty much the same thing by opening a ‘radio café’.
Read MoreReview: Level Up Your Lesson Plans: Ignite the Joy of Learning with Fun and Educational Materials
This book is awash with ideas.
Read MoreReview: Conversations With Third Reich Contemporaries: : From Luke Holland’s Final Account
This may be useful for the Hiostory department in your school.
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Review: The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic
I was surprised to read some of the clearest explanations of neuroscience I've yet come across.
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Review: Nature's Memory
One would think that the stories told by the exhibits in natural history museums are reasonably objective and factual, but apparently not.
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On this day in 2010: Review of the Dell Latitude 2110
“Oooh!” “Ah!” “Oh my!”. Such were the collective gasps emanating from the Freedman household when I unpacked the Dell Latitude 2110 Netbook I’d been sent to review. Slim, striking and silent (but enough about me), the Latitude certainly makes the grade as far as aesthetics are concerned. But how does it actually perform?