 | Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £4.41 Very good.
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 | A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 A tale of modern life.
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 | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.93 Easy to read Dennett
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 | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £0.01 Generally a load of cobblers. A good beginning though.
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 | The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain (Second Edition) by Anthony Browne
Buy new: £6.62 Confirmation that there is still hope, and that the entire world is not mad.
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 | The Emerging Mind: The BBC Reith Lectures 2003 by Vilayanur Ramachandran
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.54 Very interesting
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 | The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares by Robbie Burns
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £4.99 Very informative
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 | Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology by Paul Broks
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £2.29 Almost excellent
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 | Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) by Paul Carter
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £1.75 As expected. Ok.
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 | This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield by Paul Carter
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.23 Good for a rigman I guess.
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 | The Holy Qur'an (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Buy new: £3.29 / Used from: £0.40 After finally reading this book cover to cover I am now qualified to say that this is utter nonsense written by a delusional paranoid lunatic.
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 | Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.34 Excellent.
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 | THE BOOK OF MORMON - Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith. Jnr
Buy used from: £1.43 Tripe! Or as the Scottish might say, 'total pish!, but still far more readable and coherent than the 'Holy Quran', and with nothing like as much violence and hatred.
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 | The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty by Denise Chong
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.32 A great record of an important historic time and a girls journey through it.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Can read this again and again and get something new each time.
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 | A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq by Christopher Hitchens
Buy used from: £1.51 He's quite right. I'm almost certain of it.
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 | Earth and Life Through Time (Course S103)
Buy used from: £0.01 The info in these books is brilliant.
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 | Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.85 Very good.
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.41 Very, very good.
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 | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Buy used from: £19.99 Very good, again.
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 | Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £3.33 Great sci-fi.
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 | The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by PM Handley
Buy new: £17.32 / Used from: £18.85 Brilliantly revealing.
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 | A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) by Barry Hines
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.99 Brilliant.
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 | Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £2.70 A seemingly unbiased acount of Americas history. A great read.
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