- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene,Vintage
- The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio, Heinemann
- Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Consilience by E. O. Wilson, Abacus
- Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones, Doubleday
- Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
- Noah’s Flood by William Ryan and Walter Pitman, Touchstone
- Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found
Our Place in the Universe by Richard Panek, Fourth Estate - Full Moon by Michael Light, Jonathan Cape
- Conquest of Abundance by Paul Feyerabend, University of Chicago
Another spectacular comet is rumoured to be heading this way, visible in
July. So choose your telescope after reading Richard Panek’s elegant history of
the instrument, and keep an eye on the skies.
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