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• 17 Equations that Changed the World [In Pursuit of the Unknown] – Ian Stewart ***
• 25 Big Ideas – Robert Matthews ***
• 30 Second Maths – Richard Brown (Ed.) ***
• 30 Second Theories – Paul Parsons (Ed.) ***
• 50 Physics Ideas you Really Need to Know – Joanne Baker ***
• A Beautiful Math – Tom Siegfried ***
• A Certain Ambiguity – Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal ***(**)
• A Closer Look: Deceptions & Discoveries – Marjorie E. Wieseman ***
• A Different Universe – Robert M. Laughlin ***
• A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos – Mark Thompson ***
• A History of Molecular Biology – Michael Morange ***
• A Little History of Science – William Bynum ***
• A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: The Science of Doctor Who – Michael White ***
• A Wealth of Numbers – Benjamin Wardhaugh ***
• Abducted – Susan A. Clancy ***
• Against the Gods – Peter Bernstein ***
• Air – William Bryant Logan ***
• Air: the excellent canopy – Frank Fahy ***
• Alien Volcanoes – Rosaly M. C. Lopes & Michael W. Carroll ***
• An Introduction to the Physics of Sport – Vassilios McInnes Spathopoulos ***
• Anatomies – Hugh Aldersey-Williams ***
• Animal – David Burnie (ed.) ***
• Anthill – Edward O. Wilson ***
• Art & Science – Siân Ede ***
• Avoid Boring People – James D. Watson ***
• Bang!!! A Curriculum Vitae of the Universe – Siegfried Eckleben ***
• Being Virtual – Davey Winder ***
• Better than Human – Allen Buchanan ***
• Beware Invisible Cows – Andy Martin ***
• Beyond UFOs – Jeffrey Bennett ***
• Biohazard – Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman ***
• Black Bodies & Quantum Cats – Jennifer Ouellette ***
• Black Genesis – Robert Bauval & Thomas Brophy ***
• Bones, Rocks & Stars – Chris Turney ***
• Born to be Good – Dacher Keltner ***
• Boyle: between God and Science – Michael Hunter ***
• Breaking the Time Barrier – Jenny Randles ***
• Bright Earth: the invention of colour – Philip Ball ***
• Can We Travel Through Time – Michael Brooks ***
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities – Tony Hallam ***
• Chance: the life of games & the game of life – J P Marques de Sa ***
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive – Jared Diamond ***
• Colossus – B. Jack Copeland et al ***
• Conversations on Consciousness – Susan Blackmore ***
• Coral – Steve Jones ***
• Cosmic Numbers – James D. Stein ***
• Critical Mass: How one thing leads to another – Philip Ball ***
• Dark Side of the Moon – Gerard DeGroot ***
• De La Mettrie’s Ghost – Chris Nunn ***
• Death by Black Hole – Neil deGrasse Tyson ***
• Deceit and Self-Deception [The Folly of Fools] – Robert Trivers ***
• Deciphering the Cosmic Number – Arthur I. Miller ***
• Deep Down Things – Bruce A. Schumm ***
• Deep Simplicity – John Gribbin ***
• Defusing Armageddon – Jeffrey T. Richelson ***
• Different Engines – Mark L. Brake & Neil Hook ***
• Dino Gangs – Josh Young ***
• Dinosaurs: a field guide – Gregory S. Paul ***
• Discord – Mike Goldsmith ***
• Don’t be Such a Scientist – Randy Olson ***
• Doomsday Men – P. D. Smith ***
• Dying to Live – Susan Blackmore ***
• Earth – James F. Luhr (Ed.) ***
• Einstein and Relativity – Paul Strathearn ***
• Einstein’s Telescope – Evalyn Gates ***
• Elegance in Science – Ian Glynn ***
• Empire of the Stars – Arthur I. Miller ***
• Eureka Man – Alan Hirshfeld ***
• Everyday Practice of Science – Frederick Grinnell ***
• Everyday Survival – Laurence Gonzales ***
• Evolving the Alien – Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart ***
• Exploring Evolution – Michael Alan Park ***
• Extraordinary Weather – Richard Hamblyn ***
• Faster – James Gleick ***
• Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment – Patricia Fara ***
• Findings – Hugh Aldersey-Williams ***
• Four Laws (that drive the Universe) – Peter Atkins ***
• Freaks of Nature – Mark S. Blumberg ***
• Free Radicals – Michael Brooks ***
• Freedom Evolves – Daniel Dennett ***
• From Cosmos to Chaos – Peter Coles ***
• Froth – Mark Denny ***
• Future Proof [You Call This the Future] – Nick Sagan ***
• Galileo’s Finger – Peter Atkins ***
• Galileo: Watcher of the Skies – David Wootton ***
• Galloping with Light – Felix Alba-Juez ***
• Genius – a very short introduction – Andrew Robinson ***
• Henri Poincaré – Jeremy Gray ***
• Homo Mysterious – David R. Barash ***
• How it Ends – Chris Impey ***
• How Old is the Universe? – David A. Weintraub ***
• How the Hippies Saved Physics – David Kaiser ***
• How to Build a Habitable Planet – Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker ***
• How to Dunk a Doughnut – Len Fisher ***
• How to Live Forever – Alok Jha ***
• How to Live Off-grid – Nick Rosen ***
• How to Save the World with Salad Dressing – Thomas Byrne & Tom Cassidy ***
• How to Score – Ken Bray ***
• Hubble: the mirror on the universe – Robin Kerrod & Carole Stott ***
• Human – Robert Winston ***
• Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction – Bernard Wood ***
• I Used to Know That: General Science – Marianne Taylor ***
• Imagine: how creativity works – Jonah Lehrer ***
• Infinite Ascent: a short history of mathematics – David Berlinski ***
• Ingenious Ireland – Mary Mulvihill ***
• Instant Egghead Guide: Physics – Brian Clegg ***
• Introducing Darwin – Jonathan Miller & Borin Van Loon ***
• Introducing Evolution: a graphic guide – Dylan Evans & Howard Selina ***
• Introducing Fractals: a graphic guide – Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Will Rood & Ralph Edney ***
• Introducing Mathematics – Ziauddin Sardar, Jerry Ravetz & Borin Van Loon ***
• Introducing Psychology: a graphic guide – Nigel C. Benson ***
• Introducing Stephen Hawking – J. P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate ***
• Is There Life After Death? – Tony Peake ***
• Isaac Newton – Gale E. Christianson ***
• It’s ONLY Rocket Science – Lucy Rogers ***
• Joseph Priestley in Calne – Norman Beale ***
• Lavoisier in the Year One – Madison Smartt Bell ***
• Leaving Earth – Robert Zimmerman ***
• Litmus – Ra Page (Ed.) ***
• Little Book of Big Ideas: Science – Pete Moore ***
• Little Book of Infinity – Mike Flynn ***
• Loneliness – John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick ***
• Magical Mathematics – Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham ***
• Making Time – Steve Taylor ***
• Mariposa Road – Robert Michael Pyle ***
• Mathematicians – Mariana Cook ***
• Maths 1001 [Mathematics 1001] – Richard Elwes ***
• Meaning in Mathematics – John Polkinghorne (Ed.) ***
• Meet Your Happy Chemicals – Loretta Graziano Breuning ***
• Mind Bending Puzzles & Fascinating Facts – Paul Williams ***
• Mismatch – Peter D. Gluckman & Mark Hanson ***
• Miss Leavitt’s Stars – George Johnson ***
• Moral Minds – Marc D. Hauser ***
• Mr Tompkins in Paperback – George Gamow ***
• Nature’s Robots: A History of Proteins – Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds ***
• Neils Bohr and the Quantum Atom – Helge Kragh ***
• Network Geeks – Brian E. Carpenter ***
• Not Exactly – Kees van Deemter ***
• Nothing: a very short introduction – Frank Close ***
• Nuclear Power: a very short introduction – Maxwell Irvine ***
• Number Freak – Derrick Niederman ***
• Number Freaking – Gary Rimmer ***
• Numbers: a very short introduction – Peter M. Higgins ***
• On Being – Peter Atkins ***
• Once Before Time – Martin Bojowald ***
• Pandora’s Breeches – Patricia Fara ***
• Pavlov’s dogs and Schrödinger’s cat – Rom Harré ***
• Personality – Daniel Nettle ***
• Physics and Technology for Future Presidents – Richard A. Muller ***
• Physics of the Future – Michio Kaku ***
• Planets: a very short introduction – David A. Rothery ***
• Plastic Fantastic – Eugenie Samuel Reich ***
• Pleasurable Kingdom – Jonathan Balcombe ***
• Poor Robin’s Prophecies – Benjamin Wardhaugh ***
• Postcards from Mars – Jim Bell ***
• Print is Dead – Jeff Gomez ***
• Programming the Universe – Seth Lloyd ***
• Proust and the Squid – Maryanne Wolf ***
• Pythagoras’ Revenge – Arturo Sangalli ***(*)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard Feynman ***
• Quantify! – Göran Grimvall ***
• Quantum – Manjit Kumar ***
• Quantum Enigma – Bruce Rosenblum & Fred Kuttner ***
• Quantum Physics for Poets – Leon Lederman & Christopher Hill ***
• Quantum Physics: A Beginner’s Guide – Alastair I. M. Rae ***
• Reactions – Peter Atkins ***
• Relativity: A Very Short Introduction – Russell Stannard ***
• Review – Space on Earth – Charles Cockell ***
• Risk: a very short introduction – Baruch Fischhoff & John Kadvany ***
• Rock & Gem – Ronald Louis Bonewitz ***
• Sacred Mathematics – Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman ***
• Schrödinger’s Rabbits – Colin Bruce ***
• Science 1001 – Paul Parsons ***
• Science in Seconds – Hazel Muir ***
• Science without the Boring Bits – Ian Crofton ***
• Science: the definitive guide – Piers Bizony ***
• Scientific Curiosity – Cyril Aydon ***
• Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism – Andrew J. Petto & Laurie R. Godfrey (Eds.) ***
• Seduced by Logic – Robyn Arianrhod ***
• Seeing Through Illusions – Richard Gregory ***
• Seen | Unseen – Martin Kemp ***
• Seven Million Years – Douglas Palmer ***
• Seven Tales of the Pendulum – Gregory L. Baker ***
• Seven Wonders of the Universe – C. Renée James ***
• Seven Years to Save the Planet – Bill McGuire ***
• Sex, Drugs and Chocolate – Paul Martin ***
• Shadows on the Cave Wall: a new theory of evolution – Keith Skene ***
• Shapes – Philip Ball ***
• Sky in a Bottle – Peter Pesic ***
• Small World – Mark Buchanan ***
• Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman ***
• Status Syndrome – Michael Marmot ***
• Stephen Hawking – Kitty Ferguson ***
• Stepping Stones to the Stars – Terry C. Treadwell ***
• Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits and other Mathematical Explorations – Keith Ball ***
• Super Cooperators – Martin Nowak & Roger Highfield ***
• Surviving Armageddon – Bill McGuire ***
• Symmetry and the Monster – Mark Ronan ***
• Terrors of the Table – Walter Gratzer ***
• Tesla: Man out of Time – Margaret Cheney ***
• Thank God for Evolution – Michael Dowd ***
• The 21st Century Brain – Steven Rose ***
• The Address Book – Tim Radford ***
• The Ancestor’s Tale – Richard Dawkins ***
• The Artful Universe Expanded – John D. Barrow ***
• The Big Questions: The Universe – Stuart Clark ***
• The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb ***
• The Blind Spot – William Byers ***
• The Book of Numbers – Peter J. Bentley ***
• The Book of the Moon – Rick Stroud ***
• The Brain Supremacy – Kathleen Taylor ***
• The Calculus Diaries – Jennifer Ouellette ***
• The Cambridge Phenomenon – Kate Kirk ***
• The Comet Sweeper – Claire Brock ***
• The Compassionate Instinct – Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith (Ed.) ***
• The Creation – E. O. Wilson ***
• The Demon and the Quantum – Robert J. Scully and Marlan O. Scully ***
• The Earth Moves – Dan Hofstadter ***
• The Elegant Universe of Albert Einstein – Tom Barnes et al ***
• The Essential Difference – Simon Baron-Cohen ***
• The Father of Forensics – Colin Evans ***
• The Fellowship – John Gribbin ***
• The First Scientist – Brian Clegg ***
• The Flame of Miletus – John Freely ***
• The Forensic Casebook – Ngaire E. Genge ***
• The Forensics Handbook – Pete Moore ***
• The Fruits of War – Michael White ***
• The Genius in All of Us – David Shenk ***
• The Georgian Star – Michael D. Lemonick ***
• The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible – Lance Fortnow ***
• The Goldilocks Planet – Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams ***
• The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow ***
• The Human Mind – Robert Winston ***
• The Human Story – Charles Lockwood ***
• The Infinite Cosmos – Joseph Silk ***
• The Instant Physicist – Richard A. Muller ***
• The Intelligence Equation – Stephen Pincock ***
• The Labyrinth of Time – Michael Lockwood ***
• The Little Book of Medical Breakthroughs – Naomi Craft ***
• The Living End – Guy Brown ***
• The Lobotomist – Jack El-Hai ***
• The Logician and the Engineer – Paul J. Nahin ***
• The Man Who Ran the Moon – Piers Bizony ***
• The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III – Peter Byrne ***
• The March of Unreason – Dick Taverne ***
• The Martian Rice Pudding Programme and the Art of Why – Richard Lester ***
• The Maths Handbook – Richard Elwes ***
• The Mayor of Uglyville’s Dilemma – Ian Stewart ***
• The Met Office Book of the British Weather – John Prior ***
• The Music of Life – Denis Noble ***
• The Myth of Mars and Venus – Deborah Cameron ***
• The Origins of Meanings – James R. Hurford ***
• The Periodic Table – Eric R. Scerri ***
• The Planets – Dava Sobel ***
• The Pluto Files – Neil deGrasse Tyson ***
• The Poison Paradox – John Timbrell ***
• The Presence of the Past – Rupert Sheldrake ***
• The Quantum Divide – Christopher C. Gerry & Kimberley M. Bruno ***
• The Rough Guide to Climate Change – Robert Henson ***
• The Rough Guide to the Future – Jon Turney ***
• The Science Delusion – Rupert Sheldrake ***
• The Science of Discworld – Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen ***
• The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Michael Hanlon ***
• The Scientific Sherlock Holmes – James O’Brien ***
• The Second Mouse Gets The Cheese – Colin Spedding ***
• The Secret Life of Numbers – George G. Szpiro ***
• The Serpent’s Promise – Steve Jones ***
• The Singing Neanderthals – Steven Mithen ***
• The Singularity is near – Ray Kurzweil ***
• The State of the Universe – Pedro G. Ferreira ***
• The Tao of Physics – Fritjof Capra ***
• The Theory of Elementary Waves – Lewis E. Little ***
• The Theory that would not Die – Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne ***
• The Transit of Venus – Peter Adds et al ***
• The Truth About Hormones – Vivienne Parry ***
• The Tunguska Fireball – Surendra Verma ***
• The Ultimate Quotable Einstein – Alice Calaprice (Ed.) ***
• The Undercover Scientist – Peter J. Bentley ***
• The Universe Within – Neil Shubin ***
• The Visioneers – W. Patrick McCray ***
• The Void – Frank Close ***
• The Wonder of Brian Cox – Ben Falk ***
• The Wonderful World of Relativity – Andrew M. Steane ***
• The Zodiac of Paris – Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz ***
• Think Like a Maths Genius [Secrets of Mental Math] – Arthur Benjamin & Michael Shermer ***
• Thinking Statistically – Uri Bram ****
• Time – Eva Hoffman ***
• Time Travel: a writer’s guide – Paul J. Nahin ***
• Toxin – Alistair Lax ***
• Tweeting the Universe – Marcus Chown & Govert Schilling ***
• UFOs Caught on Film – B J Booth ***
• Ultimate Robot – Robert Malone ***
• Universe: A Journey – Nicholas Cheetham ***
• Unknown Quantity – John Derbyshire ***
• Vanity, Vitality and Virility – John Emsely ***
• Versatile Vaccines – Parvinder Chawla ***
• Weather Wonders – Gordon Higgins ***
• Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs – Gregory L. Reece ***
• What does the Moon Smell Like? – Eva Everything ***
• What if the Earth had two Moons? – Neil F. Comins ***
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late – Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon ***
• Why Aren’t They Here? – Surendra Verma ***
• Why Can’t Elephants Jump? – Mick O’ Hare (Ed.) ***
• Why Cats Land On Their Feet – Mark Levi ***
• Why Most Things Fail – Paul Ormerod ***
• Why Us? – James Le Fanu ***
• Wordplay – John Langdon ***
• Zero Degrees of Empathy [The Science of Evil] – Simon Baron-Cohen ***
• Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea – Charles Seife ***
• Zombie Science 1Z – ‘Doctor Austin’ ***