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  • 1001 Inventions that Changed the World – Jack Challoner (Ed.) **
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  • God Does Play Dice with the Universe – Shan Gao **
  • Introducing Psychotherapy – Nigel Benson & Boris van Loon **
  • Kuhn vs Popper – Steve Fuller **
  • Life as Energy – Alexis Mari Pietak **
  • Plan B 2.0 – Lester R. Brown **
  • Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think – Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley (Ed) **
  • Simplexity – Alain Berthoz **
  • Space Chronicles – Neil de Grasse Tyson **
  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav **
  • The Friar and the Cipher – Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone **
  • The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot – Nina Samuel (Ed.) **
  • The Little Book of Mathematical Principles – Robert Solomon **
  • The Science of Discworld II – Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen **
  • TimeOne – Colin Gillespie **(*)
  • Uncentering the Earth – William T. Vollmann **
  • Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries – Louis A. Del Monte **
  • What Einstein didn’t know about Time – Keith Ashworth **
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