In this video, filmed after Stuff Matters was nominated to the 2014 shortlist, materials scientist, TV presenter and author, Professor Miodownik discusses and reads from his book: Speaking of the upcoming holiday gift-giving season, all of the shortlisted books are worthy gifts for fans of popular science writing -- and in fact, the longlisted titles are all worth serious consideration, too.
Allen's science projects also involve very worthy gifts in medicine and neurology research.
Susan is the author of books on French and American country cooking, and has a C.I.A.-worthy gift for going into deep cover in a strange region and coming out with its secrets.
In an extended flashback, he visits a succession of people troubled by debt, illness and disability to discover whether they are "good people" worthy of gifts he's preparing to bestow on them.
But if you're still not convinced that apps alone make worthy Christmas gifts, perhaps the way to do it would be to slip an iTunes voucher inside the 50th anniversary hardback edition of A Clockwork Orange (William Heinemann) or a beautifully bound copy of Shakespeare's sonnets.
But it is up to us now to make the most of it, to receive it with gratitude, and to prove ourselves worthy of this gift.
Also resort worthy is the gift shop, with its fine china, sterling silver jewelry, etched velvet scarves, brocade slippers and nightgowns made of silk.
John Drayton Hastie's death coincided with a visit to the property by a history buff who told another grandson, Taylor Drayton Nelson that the slave cabins were a rare historical gift worthy of restoration.
The Bay of Pigs was a gift worthy of the magi; it allowed Fidel and Raúl, the sempiternal head of the revolution's armed forces, to rout fourteen hundred anti-Castro Cubans, armed and trained by la CIA (rhymes with "see ya"), and provided the perfect backdrop against which Fidel could, in the course of the operation, declare Cuba a socialist state.
