 | Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.55 Hard to argue with this one. Chaos theory may be trendy, but it also makes a kind of sense.
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Ralph Leighton
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.75 The polymath's polymath. Safecracker, drummer, linguist, artist, writer and Nobel Prize winning physicist. The guy's an inspiration.
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 | Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.31 Simple and beautiful. Surely 90% of genius lies in stating the obvious?
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 | Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Pimlico) by Colin Renfrew
Buy used from: £19.50 An archaeological tour-de-force. Marries the science of carbon dating and other techniques with palaeolinguistics. Excellent and highly readable.
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 | The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.98 Hardly hardcore science, but beautifully written autobiographical pieces by one of the 20th century's essential authors.
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 | The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £3.91 Contraversial and fun
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 | The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr.Dee by Benjamin Woolley
Buy used from: £4.20 Elizabethan bad boy Dr Dee was an alchemist, mathematician, antiquarian and librarian. But was he a Satanist...?
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