04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
... should help with their enjoyment of the volume. However, the design of the book appears somewhat old-fashioned in its use of black-and-white photos and a glossy insert that repeats selected images in full colour...
01 August 2019
One of Ten Billion Earths
... black-and-white photos and a 16-page colour insert. As a result, presentation-wise, it comes across as a somewhat old-fashioned book. Indeed, it is the sort of book that has to be read from cover to cover; there is no dipping in and out...
01 October 2019
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
... Rees does not believe). Perhaps reflecting the literary world in which Rees grew up, the book is old-fashioned in its format: five sections with subsections, notes and an index, and no pictures (except an author portrait on the...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
.... In Moonfire, the text of which is excerpted from the original book, the literary approach seems slightly old-fashioned, but maintains the author’s boyish fascination for rockets that were “the height of a football field set...
01 April 2020
Rocket Propulsion
... book it seems rather brief with its predominantly single-page references. The book is also somewhat old-fashioned in its design, featuring only black-and-white line drawings and the occasional monochrome photograph, but...
14 April 2021
Satellite support for Scottish seafood industry
... the unlikely partnership as signalling the "innovative, forward-thinking nature of a traditional sector often condemned as old fashioned”. With Scotland being a global leader in seafood production, as well as a rising star in space exploration and...
