Royal Society Science Book Prize

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Despite it All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls

Fred Pearce

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Every Last Fish: What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them

Rose George

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Unknown

Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism is Redefining Human Identity

Lise Barnéoud

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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past

Steve Ramirez

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The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry

Kit Chapman

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Unknown

Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain

Masud Husain

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Canongate

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future

Neil Shubin

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Penguin Publishing Group

Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power

Daniel Levitin

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Unknown

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege

Simon Parkin

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Hodder & Stoughton

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

Sadiah Qureshi

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Penguin Books

Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

Tim Minshall

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Unknown

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith

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Penguin Press

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

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Knopf

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Tom Chivers

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Orion

The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction

Gísli Pálsson

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Unknown

Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality

Venki Ramakrishnan

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HarperCollins

Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy

Kashmir Hill

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Simon & Schuster

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

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Random House

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

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Simon & Schuster

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Nicklas Brendborg

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Little, Brown

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

Roma Agrawal

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Unknown

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Lev Parikian

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Elliott & Thompson

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Kate Zernike

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Scribner

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

Henry Gee

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Unknown

Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life

Rose Anne Kenny

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Unknown

Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender

Frans de Waal

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Granta Books

Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

Peter A. Stott

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Atlantic Books

Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story

Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja

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The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History

Nick Davidson

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Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

Breath

James Nestor

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Penguin Publishing Group

Science Fictions

Stuart J. Ritchie

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The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Jessica Nordell

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Macmillan

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Emily Levesque

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The Sleeping Beauties

Suzanne O'Sullivan

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Picador

Explaining Humans

Camilla Pang

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Penguin Books

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

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Anchor

The Double X Economy

Linda Scott

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan

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Grand Central Publishing

The World According to Physics

Jim Al-Khalili

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Princeton University Press

Transcendence

Gaia Vince

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Penguin Books

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz

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Mariner Books

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado-Perez

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Chatto & Windus

Clearing the Air

Tim Smedley

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Bloomsbury

Six Impossible Things

John Gribbin

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MIT Press

The Remarkable Life of the Skin

Monty Lyman

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The Second Kind of Impossible

Paul Steinhardt

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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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PublicAffairs

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

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William Collins

Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

Hannah Fry

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Doubleday

Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Mark Miodownik

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The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences

Daniel M. Davis

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The Bodley Head

The Unexpected Truth About Animals

Lucy Cooke

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Transworld

Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

Cordelia Fine

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W. W. Norton

Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe

Eugenia Cheng

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Basic Books

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

Joseph Jebelli

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Little, Brown

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith

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HarperCollins

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell

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Anchor

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

Andrea Wulf

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Knopf

Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body

Jo Marchant

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Crown

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Scribner

The Hunt for Vulcan: ... and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

Thomas Levenson

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Head of Zeus

The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg

Tim Birkhead

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Bloomsbury

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

Oliver Morton

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Princeton University Press

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

Gaia Vince

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Milkweed Editions

Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

Alex Bellos

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Bloomsbury

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili

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Life's Greatest Secret

Matthew Cobb

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Smashing Physics

Jon Butterworth

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Headline

The Man Who Couldn’t Stop

David Adam

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Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

Mark Miodownik

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Penguin Books

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

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W. W. Norton

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

Philip Ball

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Vintage Books

Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon

John Browne

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Orion

The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

George Johnson

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Knopf

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

Pedro G. Ferreira

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Particle at the End of the Universe

Sean Carroll

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Bird Sense

Tim Birkhead

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Bloomsbury

Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life

Enrico Coen

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Princeton University Press

Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea

Callum Roberts

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Viking

Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

Charles Fernyhough

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Profile Books

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Caspar Henderson

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University of Chicago Press

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

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Fourth Estate

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

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Penguin Press

My Beautiful Genome

Lone Frank

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Oneworld

The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

Steven Pinker

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Allen Lane

The Hidden Reality

Brian Greene

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Penguin Books

The Viral Storm

Nathan Wolfe

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Allen Lane

The Wavewatcher's Companion

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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Bloomsbury

Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

Alex Bellos

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Bloomsbury

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

Ian Sample

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Basic Books

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean

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Back Bay Books

The Rough Guide to The Future

Jon Turney

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Unknown

Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World

Guy Deutscher

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Metropolitan Books

Life Ascending

Nick Lane

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W. W. Norton

A World Without Ice

Henry Pollack

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Avery

Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

Frederick Grinnell

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Oxford University Press

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam

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Unknown

We Need To Talk About Kelvin

Marcus Chown

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Unknown

Why Does E=mc2?

Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

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Unknown

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

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HarperCollins

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

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McClelland & Stewart

Decoding the Heavens

Jo Marchant

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Unknown

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

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Pantheon

What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life

Avery Gilbert

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Crown

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

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Pantheon

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Mark Lynas

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Fourth Estate

A Life Decoded, My Genome: My Life

J. Craig Venter

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Viking

Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise

Steve Jones

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Little, Brown

Gut Feelings

Gerd Gigerenzer

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Unknown

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

Stuart Clark

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Princeton University Press

Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry

Ian Stewart

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Basic Books

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

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Knopf Canada

Homo Britannicus

Chris Stringer

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Unknown

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

Eric R. Kandel

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W. W. Norton

Lonesome George

Henry Nicholls

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Macmillan

One in Three

Adam Wishart

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Grove Press

The Rough Guide to Climate Change

Robert Henson

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Unknown

Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

David Bodanis

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Crown

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

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Unknown

Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes

Arthur I. Miller

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Little, Brown

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

Nick Lane

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Oxford University Press

The Truth About Hormones: What's Going on when We're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful

Vivienne Parry

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Atlantic Books

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

Philip Ball

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Matters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A User

Griffith Edwards

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Allen Lane

The Ancestor's Tale

Richard Dawkins

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Unknown

The Earth: An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

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Unknown

The Human Mind

Robert Winston

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Bantam Books

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

Douwe Draaisma

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Cambridge University Press

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

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Random House

Backroom Boys

Francis Spufford

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Faber & Faber

How to Clone the Perfect Blonde

Sue Nelson, Richard Hollingham

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Unknown

In The Beginning Was the Worm

Andrew Brown

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Pocket Books

Magic Universe

Nigel Calder

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Oxford University Press

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Armand Marie Leroi

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Penguin Books

Nature Via Nurture

Matt Ridley

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Harper Perennial

Right Hand, Left Hand

Chris McManus

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Phoenix

Reckoning With Risk

Gerd Gigerenzer

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Penguin Books

Small World

Mark Buchanan

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

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Viking

The Extravagant Universe

Robert P. Kirshner

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Princeton University Press

Where Is Everybody?

Stephen Webb

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Springer Publishing Company

The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking

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Unknown

A Primate's Memoir

Robert M. Sapolsky

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Scribner

Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time

Martin Gorst

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Fourth Estate

Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science

Michael White

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Secker & Warburg

The Madness of Adam and Eve: Did Schizophrenia Shape Humanity?

David Horrobin

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Unknown

The Secret Life of Dust

Hannah Holmes

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Wiley

Mapping the Deep

Robert Kunzig

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W. W. Norton

Creation: Life and How to Make It

Steve Grand

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Malignant Sadness

Lewis Wolpert

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Faber & Faber

Mendel's Demon

Mark Ridley

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Phoenix

Mendeleyev's Dream

Paul Strathern

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Penguin Books

Strange Beauty

George Johnson

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Vintage Books

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

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W. W. Norton

A Brief History of the Future

John Naughton

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Unknown

Children of Prometheus

Christopher Wills

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Unknown

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

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HarperCollins

The White Death

Thomas Dormandy

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Unknown

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Jonathan Weiner