 | Bad Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking by Jamie Whyte
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.41 Spot the flawed logic in anything. We all do it.
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 | How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 How language disguises vacuums
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 | Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Buy used from: £9.99 The scientific method and how it is being aped to eat your cash
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 | Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.37 Time to start wondering why the other books in this list are necessary
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 | Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.48 Does religion really make any sense?
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 | The Demon-haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Why critical thinking matters - Sagan in his own inimitable style
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 | Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £8.09 A challenge to received opinion
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 | The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.60 A superb reflection on the difference between expectation and reality
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.16 / Used from: £0.01 Now get a handy summary of our best shot at reality
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £3.58 The ultimate mental flip - the probable real interpretation of life
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 | Gobbledygook: How Cliches, Sludge and Management-speak are Strangling Our Public Language by Don Watson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Making the obvious impenetrable: the triumph of management-speak
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