 | Against the Gods: Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: £16.20 / Used from: £3.26 This book gives a thorough and gripping account of the story of risk. One of my favourite books. Bernstein argues that it is in the management of risk that modern times can be distinguished.
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 | Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond (Visions of Science) by Michio Kaku
Buy used from: £2.44 A book about the limitless future of science and technology, with emphasis on the next 100 years. My favourite book - the one I would rescue from a burning building!
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 | HAL's Legacy: "2001's" Computer as Dream and Reality by DG Stork
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £2.40 From supercomputer design to speech synthesis, recognition and understanding, from image recognition to lip-reading, artifical intelligence and ethics, how much of HAL has become reality?
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 | The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla - Forgotten Genius of Electricity by Robert Lomas
Buy used from: £40.00 Tesla was an amazing inventor, ahead of his time. A man of science, not commerce, his ideas were appropriated by others for commercial gain, Tesla died alone and penniless, but here his story is told.
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 | Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor
Buy used from: £7.33 A small book with a huge meaning. Written as a series of letters, it chillingly brings the insidious horrors of Nazism to life. Takes a little time to read, but a long time to forget.
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 | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Buy new: £7.61 / Used from: £4.11 A beautiful book which distils the lessons of life into a few simple sentences. The lessons we are taught while we are young stay with us throughout our lives, free from idealogy, religion or politics
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 | Bottersnikes and Gumbles (Puffin Books) by S.A. Wakefield
Buy used from: £34.97 Back in the mid-1970s I was first introduced to the ugly, rude, stupid and lazy bottersnikes and the sweet, hard-working gumbles! Moral of the tales? Laziness gets you nowhere, teamwork is king!
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 | Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Hew Maclean
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £3.30 500 pages of a gripping account of a real life James Bond, this book leaves you feeling as though you were there, accompanying Maclean in his adventures through Russia and the Balkans!
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 | Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
Buy new: £8.55 / Used from: £4.99 This book paints a vivid picture not only of the independence of a nation, but the birth of another: Pakistan. I read this book whilst in India, and it helped me to understand the place a little more.
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 | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I first read his words in 1987, and they have stayed with me ever since. This paperback version is illustrated with his own drawings and contains many beautiful words.
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 | A History of South Africa by Frank Welsh
Buy new: £8.07 / Used from: £4.37 I have a strong affection for South Africa, and this comprehensive 600-page book was an educational pleasure to read. It was not an easy read, but was very rewarding, and I recommend it.
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| The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
Buy used from: £9.47 It was back in the 1980s when I was lent a book all about this delightful priest and his daily trials. Described in gentle words, this book tells stories by which we can all live our lives.
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 | Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
Buy used from: £1.54 I lived in New York in 1994, and this informative and educational book quickly became required reading, enabling me to understand America in ways I couldn't before.
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 | The Jim Corbett Omnibus: Man-eaters of Kumaon; The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag; The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £7.18 To begin to read his stories is to be drawn into an amazing journey into the Jungles of Northern India. His style of writing is poignant and evocative.
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 | British Greats
Buy used from: £0.01 A wonderful collection of thoughts about what exactly it is that has made Britain the place it is. Many peoples thoughts are gathered in one thought-provoking book.
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 | Smithy : The Life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith by Ian Mackersey
Buy used from: £4.52 An international celebratory in the 1920s, this Australian aviator piloted the first flights across the Pacific. This is the most enjoyable biography I have read. I recommend it to everyone.
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 | Countdown: History of Space Flight by T. A. Heppenheimer
Buy used from: £1.36 This is a wonderful historical story told from both the American and Soviet sides, intertwining the two to present an enthralling story.
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 | Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik
Buy used from: £0.90 The amazing story of one of the world's most innovative places: Xerox PARC. This book tells a truly amazing story of a group of amazing people.
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 | Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller
Buy used from: £1.13 From the 1960s to the end of the 1990s, this book tells the story of all of the major names who contributed to make the internet what it was by the end of the last century. An absorbing story.
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 | Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business (Wiley Audio) by Jeffrey S. Young
Buy new: £20.39 / Used from: £1.61 The rise of the Apple Computer, cell phones and the Internet and more. A fascinating and very readable book for anyone interested in the technological steps that have led us to where we are today.
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