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Chaos: Making a New Science
1.  Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
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  "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 as Told to Ralph Leighton
2.  Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Ralph Leighton
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  "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
3.  Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
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  "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)
4.  Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Pimlico) by Colin Renfrew
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  "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)
5.  The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
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  "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)
6.  The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
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  "Contraversial and fun"
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The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee: The Science and Magic of Dr.Dee
7.  The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee: The Science and Magic of Dr.Dee by Benjamin Woolley
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  "Elizabethan bad boy Dr Dee was an alchemist, mathematician, antiquarian and librarian. But was he a Satanist...?"
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