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The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
Simon Singh
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Fourth Estate
2 Sep 1999
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With their inextricable links to history, mystery and war, codes and ciphers offer a rich seam of material for any author. The relative dearth of non-technical books on the subject may be a reflection of its pretty technical foundations, which compel ha...
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Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated
Steve Jones
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Doubleday
2 Sep 1999
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Steve Jones describes Darwin's The Origin of Species as "the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself ... without doubt, the book of the millennium." That book's sensational central proposition, that speciation arose from descent with modification through the mechanism of natural selection, ...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
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Jonathan Cape
25 Feb 1999
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To write a book to explain in simple, non-mathematical terms what superstring theory is in not a simple task. In ...
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley
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Fourth Estate
2 Sep 1999
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Science writer Matt Ridley's Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters is an elegant reflection on the significance of being able, for the first time in history, to read our own genes. The book is loosely organised around the stories of one gene ...
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Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters)
Martin J. Rees
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
14 Oct 1999
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Just six numbers govern the shape, size and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant--1, s...
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Words and Rules (Science Masters)
Steven Pinker
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Weidenfeld & Nicholson
28 Oct 1999
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At least until very recently, the human brain was a black box. The only way we could see how it worked, was to look at how people acted--and listen to what they said....
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The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
John Maynard Smith
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Oxford University Press
1 Mar 1999
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Life is a long weird trip, and in The Origins of Life John Maynard Smith and Ers Szathmry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmitted in ever-more intricate ways across the generations. Self- replicating chemicals walled themselves into cells, organised ...
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The Meme Machine
Richard Dawkins
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Oxford University Press
1 May 1999
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Habits, skills, songs, stories, ideas: humans are marvellously equipped to keep themselves and each other ceaselessly busy--and it's as well. For no matter how hard we try, we humans just can't stop thinking. So, says Susan Blackmore, what if consciousne...
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The Planets
David McNab
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BBC Books
22 April 1999
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When Lunik powered its way out of the earth's atmosphere in 1959 it set in motion the exploration of space. It also rekindled the age-old question of whether we're alone in the universe. BBC television producers David McNab and James Younger's ...
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"Walking with Dinosaurs": A Natural History
Tim Haines
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BBC Books
30 Sep 1999
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There is no shortage of books on dinosaurs and it has become increasingly difficult to produce anything novel without departing too much from the scientific evidence. ...
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