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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
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The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen, Allen Lane
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Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio, Heinemann
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Kuhn vs Popper by Steve Fuller, Icon
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The Great British Butterfly Safari by Robin Page & John Paley, Bird鈥檚 Farm Books
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Our Final Century by Martin Rees, Heinemann
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Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland by Marjorie Blamey, Alastair Fitter and Richard Fitter, A & C Black
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Some Time with Feynman by Leonard Mlodinow, Allen Lane
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The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister鈥檚 Pox by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape
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When Life Nearly Died by Michael Benton, Thames and Hudson
It鈥檚 summer in Cambridge, and thoughts are turning to 鈥� philosophy, it seems. Bryson鈥檚 Everything may top most lists for a while. But after that, on the banks of the Cam they鈥檙e reading local boy Baron-Cohen about male and female brains being utterly different, Damasio鈥檚 deep thoughts about what it means for a brain to have a self anyway, and Fuller on what this 鈥渟cience鈥� thing might be.