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You can live without a job, but not without intimacy. Tom Shakespeare says it is relationships that are crucial for the disabled. He chooses FiveBooks on disability.
A recent survey found that a third of parents avoid helping their children with maths homework. But what’s not to like about mathematics, asks Professor Marcus du Sautoy? Here he chooses FiveBooks that revel in the beauty of the queen of science.
With trust in politicians at a low ebb, Anthony Seldon believes it’s time to tackle the collapse of trust in public life. The more trusting and trustworthy we are, the happier we’ll be, he tells FiveBooks.
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili explains the universe in FiveBooks. He says if he knew how atoms managed to be in two places at once the King of Sweden would be calling him up on the phone with the Nobel Prize.
Are we the legal owners of our own bodies? Can blood be privatised? Medical ethics writer Donna Dickenson goes body shopping for human tissue with shocking results.
Is there life out there? Cambridge biologist David Bainbridge says that if there's carbon and water then all bets are off. He selects FiveBooks on accessible science.
Walter Isaacson tells us that Einstein did not believe God would play dice with the universe. He did, however, bet his wife he’d win the Nobel Prize and promise her the proceeds if she’d give him a divorce. Isaacson chooses the best FiveBooks on Einstein.
The Royal Society is putting key papers from its archive online this week - cosmology consultant Marcus Chown wonders why the greatest English physicist since Newton remains unknown. He chooses the best FiveBooks on cosmology.
A new survey has revealed this week that nearly half of Finnish marriages end in divorce. Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa chooses FiveBooks on the difference between men and women and gives Finns and the rest of us tips on how to find a life partner.
Recent studies show that exposure to common plastics "feminises" the brains of boys. Development expert Sue Palmer says much of modern life is toxic for young boys. She tells us how to give them the freedom they need, and chooses the best FiveBooks on boys' early development