- The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
- Galileo鈥檚 Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
- Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan, Allen Lane
- The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, Ebury Press
- Walking With Dinosaurs by Tim Haines, BBC Books
- The Planets by David McNab and James Younger, BBC Books
- Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine, Little, Brown
- The New World of Mr Tompkins by George Gamow, Cambridge University Press
The Code Book illustrates how science, commerce and the military are
intertwined, as Simon Singh explores codes, code making and code breaking. Lisa
Jardine鈥檚 Ingenious Pursuits also shows that the practice of modern
science has, from its beginnings in the 17th century, been a part of ordinary
life, not a sacrosanct quest.
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