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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift)Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift) by Edwin Abbott
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A Short History of Nearly EverythingA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Bradford Books)Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Bradford Books) by Valentino Braitenberg
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human BrainDescartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
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The Ancestor's TaleThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary editionThe Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
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Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto)Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto) by George Gamow
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Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern PhysicsGenius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate TheoryThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
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The Pattern On The Stone: How Computers Think ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science)The Pattern On The Stone: How Computers Think ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) by Daniel Hillis
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Penguin Press Science)The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Penguin Press Science)
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author)Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
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The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the EarthThe Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis
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Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human BodyMutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
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Einstein's DreamsEinstein's Dreams by A. Lightman
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The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science)The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human MindPhantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human NatureThe Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
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Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About itBig Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it by Simon Singh
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Penguin Press Science)Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Strogatz
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Nobel Dreams: Experiments at the Edge of the Universe: An Experiment at the Edge of the UniverseNobel Dreams: Experiments at the Edge of the Universe: An Experiment at the Edge of the Universe by GARY Y TAUBES
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The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural HistoryThe Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by D Freedberg
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 yearsGuns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
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