 | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £7.16 Winner. Judges' comment: "We all thought this was a fantastic, enlightening and inspiring book, taking characters from the history of science and making them come alive."
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 | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.82 Shortlisted. Judges' comment: "This book is well-written, enlightening and very funny at times. We could see people reading it and finding their perspective of odds being fundamentally altered."
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 | Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor by Neil Shubin
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.83 Shortlisted. Judges comment: "This is a charming and delightful book; not often that a science book can be described in such terms! "
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 | Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £2.00 Shortlisted. Judges' comment: "We found this book was funny, accessible and offered much more than just a collection of Ben Goldacre's excellent columns in the Guardian."
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 | What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert
Buy new: £10.30 / Used from: £9.42 Shortlisted. Judges comment, "One of the things you really appreciate about this book is the feeling that you are in the presence of someone who really knows the subject. "
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 | Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.38 Shortlisted, Judges comment, This is a rattling good detective story exploring a subject that we were amazed that we hadn't heard more about. "
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