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Hugh Lasgarn

Hugh Lasgarn was a veterinarian in Wales during the 1950s.

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Vet in Green Pastures

Hugh Lasgarn

A newly qualified vet records his adventures in his first posting at a veterinary practice in the Welsh Borders.

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As you can tell from this pic, we are among Professor Ian Stewart's biggest fans. He's been blowing the trumpet for maths and all its fascinating idiosyncracies for many years - and we're delighted to be publishing his latest, WHAT'S THE USE?, this August. Buy it for all your maths-loving friends, and if you're not a maths lover yourself, here's why you should be...

Do you think maths is boring? Scary? Useless? Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart is here to show that in fact, maths is still as essential as ever

In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.

What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital, often in surprising ways, behind the scenes of daily life. How politicians pick their voters. How an absurd little puzzle solved 300 years ago leads to efficient methods for kidney transplants. How an Irish mathematician's obsession with a new number system improves special effects in movies and computer games. How SatNav relies on at least six mathematical techniques. And how a bizarre, infinitely wiggly curve, helps to optimise deliveries to your door.

Out on 19th August.

#maths #mathematics #ianstewart #professorianstewart #mathsbook #nonfiction #bookstagram

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‘EXPLOSIVE’ THE TIMES

Written by a Sage committee member and an experienced science journalist, #SPIKE is a pulse-racing journey through the science and politics of the pandemic:

Did the UK government really 'follow the science' throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, as it claims?

The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will, and must, be told and heard. There is, however, also a truthful and objective scientific narrative to be written about how the virus played out and how the world set about dealing with it. Spike is that story - from the inside. Its author, Jeremy Farrar, is one of the UK's leading scientists and a member of the SAGE emergency committee.
As head of the Wellcome Trust, and an expert in emerging infectious diseases, Jeremy Farrar was one of the first people in the world to hear about a mysterious new respiratory disease in China - and to learn that it could readily spread between people. Farrar describes how it feels as one of the key scientists at the sharp end of a fast-moving situation, when complex decisions must be made quickly amid great uncertainty. His book casts light on the UK government's claims to be 'following the science' in its response to the virus, and is informed not just by Farrar's views but by interviews with other top scientists and political figures.
Farrar, who has spent his career on the frontlines of epidemics including Nipah virus in Malaysia, bird flu in Vietnam and Ebola in West Africa, also reflects on the wider issues of Covid-19: the breath-taking scientific advances in creating tests, treatments and vaccines; the challenge to world leaders to respond for the global good and the need to address inequalities that hold back success against the virus. All these shape how the world ultimately fares not just against Covid-19, but against all the major health challenges we face globally.
His co-writer is Anjana Ahuja, an acclaimed science journalist, who covered the pandemic as it unfolded.

Together, they have written #SPIKE. Out everywhere today.

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🌱🪴As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome residents.🌱🪴

In his internationally bestselling, playful manifesto, Stefano Mancuso, expert on plant intelligence, presents a new constitution on which to build our future as beings respectful of the Earth and its inhabitants. These eight articles - the fundamental pillars on which plant life is based - must henceforth regulate all living beings.

The Nation of Plants by neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso is out today!

#TheNationofPlants #StefanoMancuso #plants #nature #bookstagram #nonfiction

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'Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a radical sense of empathy ... a stunning achievement.'
- Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss

'If you read one book about India, read this one.'
- Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

All of Mumbai's memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things - medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal - a small, forgotten community lives and works.

Scouring the dump for whatever can be resold or recycled, waste pickers also mark the familiar milestones of babies born, love found, illnesses suffered and recovered from. Like a mirror image, their stories are shaped by the influx of unwanted things from the world outside.

But now, as Deonar's toxic halo becomes undeniable, a change is coming. And as officials try to close it, the lives that the pickers have built on the Mountain seem more fragile than ever.

Mountain Tales by Saumya Roy is out today!

#MountainTales #SaumyaRoy #narrativenonfiction #bookstagram #igreads

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Following in his own footsteps from humble beginnings to professional triumph, Jacqueline Riding’s #Hogarth illuminates the work and life of one of Britain's best-loved artists.

Hogarth's vision, to a vast degree, still defines the eighteenth century. In this, the first biography for over twenty years, Jacqueline Riding brings him to vivid life, immersing us in the world he inhabited and from which he drew inspiration. At the same time, she introduces us to an artist who was far bolder and more various than we give him credit for: an ambitious self-made man, a devoted husband, a sensitive portraitist, an unmatched storyteller, philanthropist, technical innovator and author of a seminal work of art theory.

This major new biography is out today!

#Hogarth #biography #nonfiction #igreads #bookstagram

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This extraordinary true crime memoir comes out tomorrow in paperback. If you're looking for a gripping real-life story, look no further than @debora.harding’s Dancing with the Octopus.

'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse
'Electric' Lemn Sissay
'Searing' Julia Samuel

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION*
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die.

But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood?

Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.

#dancingwiththeoctopus #truecrime #memoir #deboraharding #bookstagram

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