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Blackwell's Science top 50

A promotional list of top 50 science books
1. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen W Hawking
  
2. A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
by G. H. Hardy
  
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
  
4. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)
by Simon Singh
  
5. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
by Susan Blackmore
  
6. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball
  
7. DNA
by James D. Watson
  
8.
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 Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Penguin Science)
by Daniel C. Dennett
  
9. Don't You Have Time to Think
by Richard P. Feynman
  
10. Electric Universe
by David Bodanis
  
11. Fermat's Last Theorem
by Simon Singh
  
12. Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
by Peter Atkins
  
13.
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 Genes, Peoples and Languages (Penguin Press Science S.)
by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
  
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
15. Heat
by George Monbiot
  
16. Mutants
by Armand Marie Leroi
  
17. Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
by Matt Ridley
  
18. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science)
by Nick Lane
  
19. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by Michio Kaku
  
20. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein
  
21. Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
by Chris McManus
  
22. Science
by John Gribbin
  
23. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
by Roger Penrose
  
24.
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 Six Degrees
by Mark Lynas
  
25. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
by J. E. Gordon
  
26. Stumbling on Happiness  
27. Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
by Mark Ronan
  
28. The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind
by Steven Rose
  
29. The Ancestor's Tale
by Richard Dawkins
  
30. Earth: An Intimate History
by Richard Fortey
  
31. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
  
32. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
  
33. The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
by Paul Davies
  
34. The Human Touch
by Michael Frayn
  
35. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
by John D. Barrow
  
36. The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy
  
37. The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
by Marcus Chown
  
38. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
39. The Planets
by Dava Sobel
  
40. The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science)
by Susan Greenfield
  
41. The Revenge of Gaia
by James Lovelock
  
42. The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
43. The Secret Life of Trees (Penguin Press Science S.)
by Colin Tudge
  
44. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins
  
45. The Seven Daughters of Eve
by Bryan Sykes
  
46. The Weather Makers
by Tim Flannery
  
47. Tomorrow's People : How 21St-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel
by Susan Greenfield
  
48. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Phillips Feynman
  
49. What Makes Us Human?
by Charles Pasternak
  
50. Y : The Descent of Men
by Steve Jones
  
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