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Sports Science (Science at Work S.)

By Mooney, Libby, Rivers, Andy

The Bird of Time: The Science and Politics of Nature Conservation - A Personal Account

By Moore, N

The Times Su Doku

By Gould, Wayne

Mathematical History: Activities, Puzzles, Stories and Games

By Mitchell, Merle

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By Charles Seife

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

By Villani, Cedric

The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

By Clifford A. Pickover

As Easy As Pi: Stuff about numbers that isn't (just) maths

By Jamie Buchan

Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

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

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

By David Spiegelhalter

Statistics Playbook

By Trey Grainger, Doug Turnbull, Max Irwin

Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs

By Richard Elwes

Daily Brainteasers for Ages 7-9

By Fleetham, Mike, Harris-Burland, Pippa

Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

By David Sumpter

Professor Fiendish's Book of Diabolical Brain-benders (Murderous Maths)

By Kjartan Poskitt

A Brief Guide to the Great Equations: The Hunt for Cosmic Beauty in Numbers (Brief Histories)

By Crease, Robert

I Used to Know That: Maths

By Chris Waring

Weather (Collins Gem)

By Storm Dunlop

Fermat's Last Theorem

By Singh, Simon, Simon Singh

Mental Maths Ages 8-9 Trade edition

By Anita Straker

Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

By Stewart, Professor Ian

Shark: Why we need to save the world's most misunderstood predator

By Paul de Gelder

Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance

By Lennard Zinn

Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

By Brian Clegg

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from

By Luke Heaton

Su Doku for Dummies

By Andrew Heron, Edmund James

Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

By Ian Stewart (, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick)

Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

By Stewart, Professor Ian

Mathmagicians (Big Questions)

By Ball, Johnny

What's the Point of Maths?

By DK