Read this above all else this Christmas!
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This fine book is lucidly and beautifully written. Subjects like this can be daunting for the non-scientist, but even these aspects are elegantly explained. And it is by no means all about science - Bernal was, it seems, a swordsman of prodigious appetites, which must surely make him a gift for portrayal in some trashy Hollywood flick. His scientific contributions to the Second World War effort are engagingly described, and his ludicrous politics laid bare.
If you can't read it yourself, give it to that bright but hormonally charged nephew of yours.
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