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Don't You Have Time to Think?

By Richard P Feynman

The Essential Turing

By B. Jack. Copeland (Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

The Planets

By Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

By Cedric Villani

The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI

By Colin Evans

The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser

By Jason Rosenhouse (Associate Professor of Mathematics, Associate Professor of Mathematics, James Madison University)

15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun

By Professor Lucie Green

Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It

By Ben Goldacre

The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond

By Galfard, Christophe

The Perfect Bet: Taking the Luck out of Gambling

By Adam Kucharski

Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

By Seth Lloyd

Explore Wild Australia with the Bush Tucker Man

Tequila: A Natural and Cultural History

By Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata, Gary Paul Nabhan

The Wild Places

By Macfarlane, Robert

Astronomy for Dummies

By Maran

Q&A: Cosmic Conundrums and Everyday Mysteries of Science

By Robert Matthews

The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox

By Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox

Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

By Peter Duffett-Smith (Downing College, Cambridge)

A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World

By Daniel Levitin

Madeira: Plants and Flowers

By Antonio da Costa

30-Second Brain: The 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute

By Anil Seth

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

By Ian Stewart, M. Golubitsky

RSPB Book of British Birds

By Saunders, David, Cusa, Noel

Mold in Dr Florey's Coat, The: The Story of the Penicillin M iracle

By Eric Lax

The Planet Observer's Handbook

By Fred William Price (State University of New York, Buffalo)

The Changing Faces of Jesus

By Vermes, Dr Geza

Whoosh Boom Splat: The Garage Warrior's Guide to Building Projectile Shooters

By William Gurstelle

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

By Richard Dawkins

The Observer's Year: 366 Nights in the Universe

By CBE, DSC, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore

The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy

By Mark McCutcheon