 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £6.37 In at the deep end. So you think there is a "you"? Start with the grandest illusion of all.
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 Light relief after Dan Dennett. Light? Yuck if it's only half true.
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £3.60 Lucid, enjoyable, and quite possibly life-changing. Should really be read by everyone.
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 | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.92 Human history in a nutshell. You can't help feeling he's nailed it.
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £3.83 Still suffering from 60s wooliness about human nature? Try Mr. Pinker.
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 | Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones
Buy used from: £2.26 There may be a little poetic licence in here, but you'll never look at the Romans the same way again.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £22.00 It really is time to call it a day for religion. Here endeth the lesson.
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 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £2.19 OK. Just in case the message hasn't got through.
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 | The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Buy used from: £1.80 The jury is still out, but we may have misjudged Richard III as well! A detective story with a difference.
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 | Einstein's Universe: The Layperson's Guide by Nigel Calder
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.02 We've got quantum theory and evolution. How could we leave out relativity? Gravity is a distortion of the universe by mass. Energy and mass are interchangeable. Time is not what you thought at all.
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.72 The dark side of consumerism. The unwholesome reality of "brands".
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 | Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python by Terry Jones
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £0.01 Terry Jones in great form asking some tough questions about our glorious leaders.
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 | You Are Here by Rory Bremner
Buy new: £6.33 / Used from: £0.01 Thought-provoking and hilarious at the same time. And anyone who can make you laugh at this material gets my vote.
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 | In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £1.88 Shines a light through two slits, watch closely, apply reason and abandon your fond notions of how the world works.
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 | Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.13 As if the first one wasn't weird enough. Let's put time and causality to the sword as well.
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 | The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything by David Deutsch
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.49 Now add computation, life and the nature of explanations and you have a real-life "Life, the Universe and Everything". And no, it isn't 42.
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