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The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist

By Frans De Waal

How Do You Get an Egg into a Bottle and Other Puzzles

By Brecher, Erwin, Gerrard, Mike

How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune (Penguin classics)

By Powell, John

Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine

By Wade, Nicholas

Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?

By Rees, Martin

The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology And the Search For Ancient DNA: Archaeology and the Hunt for Ancient DNA

By Jones, Martin

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

By Brockman, John

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty

By Livio, Mario

Please Explain (Coronet Books)

By Asimov, Isaac

Technoworld Going Digital

By Graham, Ian

Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

By Dan Gardner, Gardner, Dan

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

By Oppenheimer, Stephen

A Planet of Viruses

By Zimmer, Carl

The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences

By Davis, Daniel M

Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter

By Capra, Fritjof

Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

By Hassett, Brenna

Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods

By George Zaidan

How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

By North, Ryan

Hooked: How Processed Food Became Addictive

By Moss, Michael

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

By Clarke, Arthur C.

I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact (Star Trek)

By Shatner, WILLIAM, Walters

Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind

By Stewart, Ian, Cohen, Jack

Universality: The Underlying Theory Behind Life,

By Ward, Mark

Out of Eden: The People of the World: The Peopling of the World

By Oppenheimer, Stephen

The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities

By Gould, Stephen Jay

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

By Mullis, Kary

The Re-Enchantment of Nature: Science, Religion and the Human Sense of Wonder

By Mcgrath, Alister

What is Chemistry?

By Atkins, Peter

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

By Hoffman, Donald

Bad Science

By Goldacre, Ben