 | Asimov's New Guide to Science (Penguin Press Science) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £11.17 / Used from: £1.88 Sadly unrevised since his death, but fantastically comprehensive anyway
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 | The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.13 Amazing book, a brief glimpse of the wonders of life on Earth, it's diversity & history
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.77 / Used from: £3.49 An excellent summary of the processes of evolution, with lots of engrossing stories
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 | A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £4.00 Exactly the right level of detail about mankind's greatest adventure
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £2.18 The original history book, "an everlasting possession"
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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: £6.97 / Used from: £3.99 Attempts to explain the major trends of history in recent millennia
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 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.40 Various interesting facts about our species
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £4.75 The story of various collapsed civilisations & how they failed
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 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.28 An attempt to solve the mystery of consciousness
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 | The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: Philosophical Journey into the Brain (Bradford Books) by PM Churchland
Buy new: £24.61 / Used from: £4.92 Interesting facts about the brain & how we think
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