 | Asimov's New Guide to Science (Penguin Press Science) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £4.87 Sadly unrevised since his death, but fantastically comprehensive anyway
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 | The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.99 Amazing book, a brief glimpse of the wonders of life on Earth, it's diversity & history
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 | The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.90 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: £9.09 / Used from: £3.91 Exactly the right level of detail about mankind's greatest adventure
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 | History of the Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.33 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: £6.99 / Used from: £4.97 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: £3.55 / Used from: £1.72 Various interesting facts about our species
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.99 The story of various collapsed civilisations & how they failed
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 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.00 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 by PM Churchland
Buy new: £18.06 / Used from: £8.75 Interesting facts about the brain & how we think
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