Your top festive books: the December 2019 issue of Physics World is now out | Blog/Everyday science - physicsworld.com

Enjoy our reviews of the best holiday reading in the decade's final issue of your favourite magazine, inform Matin Durrani, managing editor of Physics World magazine. 

Kites, wings, drones, hoops: the December 2019 issue of Physics World is now out.

Everyone loves a good book over the holiday period, but if you’re stuck for choice, why not check out the December issue of Physics World magazine, which contains our annual bumper reviews section.

There’s a cracking autobiography by quasicrystal pioneer Paul Steinhardt, a wonderfully written examination of the power of mathematics in physics by Graham Farmelo, the strange crossover between psychics and physics, and more besides.
Plus don’t miss Margaret Harris’s great feature on airborne wind energy – a potentially powerful new green-energy source – and Edwin Cartlidge on the potential of muons as a means to inspect cannisters of nuclear waste.

Remember that if you’re a member of the Institute of Physics, you can read the whole of Physics World magazine every month via our digital apps for iOS, Android and Web browsers. Let us know what you think about the issue on Twitter, Facebook or by e-mailing us at pwld@ioppublishing.org.

Here’s a run-down of the full issue.
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Source: physicsworld.com