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Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Dylan Evans and Howard Selina, Evolution: A Graphic Guide
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Nick Lane, Life Ascending
Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species
Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews, Complete World of Human Evolution
James Watson, The Double Helix
Mark Buchanan, Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us about Economics
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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‘Great Names in Computer Science’, http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/greatnames.html
Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist
James Gleick, Chaos
Edward Lorenz, The Essence of Chaos
Louise Young, Earth’s Aura
Peter Atkins, Four Laws that Drive the Universe
Sander Bais, Very Special Relativity
Marcus Chown, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
– We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time
Charles Misner, Kip Thorne and John Wheeler, Gravitation
Victor Stenger, Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes
Marcus Chown, The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead
Martin Rees and Mitchell Begelman, Gravity’s Fatal Attraction
Caleb Scharf, Gravity’s Engines