Blackwell's Science top 50

1. 1. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking Drag me to re-order

2. 2. A Mathematician's Apology (Canto) by G. H. Hardy Drag me to re-order

3. 3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.) by Simon Singh Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human by Susan Blackmore Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball Drag me to re-order

7. 7. DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Penguin Science) by Daniel C Dennett Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Don't You Have Time to Think by Richard P. Feynman Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Electric Universe by David Bodanis Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Atkins Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Genes, Peoples and Languages (Penguin Press Science) by Luigi Luca (Professor Em Cavalli-Sforza Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science) by Nick Lane Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) by Albert Einstein Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManus Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Science: A History by John Gribbin Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.e. Gordon Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Stumbling on Happiness Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics by Mark Ronan Drag me to re-order

28. 28. The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind by Steven Rose Drag me to re-order

29. 29. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins Drag me to re-order

30. 30. Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey Drag me to re-order

31. 31. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene Drag me to re-order

32. 32. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by P. C. W. Davies Drag me to re-order

34. 34. The Human Touch by Michael Frayn Drag me to re-order

35. 35. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless by John D. Barrow Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Music of the Primes by Marcus Du Sautoy Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown Drag me to re-order

38. 38. The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin Drag me to re-order

39. 39. The Planets by Dava Sobel Drag me to re-order

40. 40. The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science) by Susan Greenfield Drag me to re-order

41. 41. The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock Drag me to re-order

42. 42. The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould Drag me to re-order

43. 43. The Secret Life of Trees (Penguin Press Science S.) by Colin Tudge Drag me to re-order

44. 44. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Drag me to re-order

45. 45. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Drag me to re-order

46. 46. The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Tomorrow's People : How 21St-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel by Susan Greenfield Drag me to re-order

48. 48. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman Drag me to re-order

49. 49. What Makes Us Human? by Charles Pasternak Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Y : The Descent of Men by Steve Jones Drag me to re-order