 | The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £1.10 A very convincing account of how life-kind came to this.
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 | The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £0.01 Richard Dawkins knows all any of us need to know about god.
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 | Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Penguin Press Science) by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £2.28 It doesn't hurt the rainbow - it just wants to be understood.
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 | Climbing Mount Improbable (Penguin science) by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £1.11 Now that's the kind of mountain I'm willing to try to climb.
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 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.68 What a clever idea for a book on the geneome.
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Buy used from: £5.89 Answers a lot of puzzling questions.
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 | Biography of a Germ by Arno Karlen
Buy used from: £5.83 This is morbidly fascinating and it's like reading a thriller - can't put it down.
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 | Fly: An Experimental Life by Martin Brookes
Buy used from: £0.01 Can this be science? Surely it's too interesting!
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 | The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science) by Edward O Wilson
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.00 Oh boy, are we in trouble! If you want to know how much, read this.
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 | The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants by Erich Hoyt
Buy used from: £0.55 I've loved ants ever since I read this.
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 | Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
Buy used from: £4.88 Good grief! It's unbelievable! You have to read this - especially if you're a blood donor.
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 | The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.24 I find this fairly convincing.
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 | Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.88 There's no supernatural mumbo jumbo in this book. Lovelock is a scientist!
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 | Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £2.43 I detest Gould's style of writing: gushing, over-emotional, unconvincing. Even so, I quite enjoyed this book.
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 | Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life by John Emsley
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.49 Reading this book was the best I've ever enjoyed chemistry ... and I didn't even get my eye brows blown off!
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 | Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.35 This made my head ache a bit but nothing that couldn't be sorted out with a couple of aspirins.
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 | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.47 This book represents the limits of my ability to understand complicated things. This is where I fail. It caused a fair throbbing in the temples but it passed after a week or so.
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 | Wild Weather by John Lynch
Buy used from: £1.35 Not just about wild weather. Also global climate and how it influences local weather.
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 | Weather (Collins GEM) by Storm Dunlop
Buy used from: £0.01 Read this and you won't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £7.91 This argument concerns us all. Dawkins gives the rational, scientific side more clearly and persuasively than anyone else I've read: the grown-up argument - the argument for sanity.
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