 | How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business) by Darrell Huff
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.11 A wonderful little book, essential for anyone doing science. How to read a cornflake packet, and how Florence Nightingale pioneered the art of statistical deception. A classic.
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 | The Golem: What You Should Know About Science (Canto) by Harry M. Collins
Buy new: £10.22 / Used from: £5.80 Modern science as "the Golem", a force less intelligent than the people responsible for it. When science goes wrong, it's not because it is evil the Golem is neither good or evil, it simply is
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 | Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.15 Some of the less illustrious ways in which scientists can become famous.
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 | Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
Buy new: £8.16 / Used from: £6.01 Does what it says on the tin.
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 | Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics by Peter Woit
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £3.49 What if theoretical physicists' enthusiasm for string theory over the last couple of decades was an awful, awful mistake? Gets a bit technical in places (string theory is a bit like that).
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 | The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £4.98 Again, voicing the unspeakable: has string theory all been an awful, awful waste of some of our most brilliant minds?
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 | Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without Special Relativity by Eric Baird
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £13.16 What if the principle of relativity is right, but our adoption of Einstein's special theory was a blunder?
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 | Impossibility: Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.99 Systems sometimes only function because of the things that they leave out, or can't do. The importance of knowing what we don't know and the inevitability of not knowing what we do know.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Twentieth Century Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy used from: £2.73 A set of amazingly influential and wierd short stories on the futility of omnipotence. The book's slightly less pretentious than that makes it sound. Highly recommended for librarians!
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 | Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings on Science by Jeremy Bernstein
Buy used from: £1.50 A general view of science and scientists. Bernstein is good at this.
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 | The Piltdown Forgery: Fiftieth Anniversary edition, with a new Introduction and Afterword by Chris Stringer: 50th Anniversary Edition by J. S. Weiner
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.00 A science nightmare. Investigating a famous case of scientific fakery, how and why it seems to have happened, and why it took us so long to get to the truth.
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