How to Clone the Perfect Blonde: Making Fantasies Come True with Cutting-edge Science: Amazon.co.uk: Sue Nelson, Richard Hollingham: Books

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Times Educational Supplement, November 14, 2003
"For anyone who would like to keep up with the pace of scientific advance this is a godsend."

Aventis and Royal Society, March 12, 2004
Longlisted for the Aventis Prizes for Science Books, 2004.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A delight to read, 29 Oct 2003

By	Sandy (Ann Arbor, Michigan USA) - See all my reviews

Laced with humor and wicked wit. Great story telling techniques and memorable analogies make quark, SHRDLU and wormholes easily understandable. I broke out laughing when the mechanics of a supernova explosion were explained using Luciano Pavarotti's rather wide girth. Anyone who invests in science and technology companies, or wants to look at the future should read this. And it should be required reading for every science teacher who wants their pupils to remember difficult concepts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars On cloning the perfect blonde, 12 Oct 2003

By	Anna Grayson (Home Counties) - See all my reviews

Sue Nelson is on of a very few science writers who can combine factual accuracy with readability and a natural unforced sense of humour. She and her husband Richard Hollingham explain some of the most important science issues of the day so we can all understand and enjoy them. Let's face it - these days you can't all yourself educated unless you can understand a bit about these things.

Every home should have a copy of this book - it's a very useful reference for homework and projects as well as being a good read. Schools should have it in their libraries and science teachers could take few tips from these authors about what science really means to ordinary folk who don't do cloning or Einstein for a living.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to Clone the Perfect Popular Science Book, 10 Oct 2003

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It would be hard to imagine a clearer or more readable guide to scientific innovation. The book is to the point, amusingly written without being supercilious and extremely informative. The essays are properly discursive, beginning at a catchy starting point (how to loose weight or travel in time or live forever) and take in a whole universe of related information. Things I thought I understood (like stem cells), I now feel I really do understand. And even though I sat through the play Copenhagen twice, I now can go to a party where there are quantum physicists and not have to change the subject. Any of my friends who don’t want this book for Christmas should tell me now.

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