杏吧原创

1. A Devil鈥檚 Chaplain by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

2. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Doubleday/Random House

3. Eurekas and Euphorias by Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press

4. The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow, Faber

5. Science: A History 1543-2001 by John Gribbin, Allen Lane/Penguin

6. The Ig Nobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams, Orion

7. Dr Riemann鈥檚 Zeros by Karl Sabbagh, Atlantic Books

8. Galileo鈥檚 Finger by Peter Atkins, Oxford University Press

9. The Big Questions in Science edited by Harriet Swain, Jonathan Cape/Random House

10. Four Colours Suffice by Robin Wilson, Allen Lane/Penguin

Information supplied by Blackwell鈥檚, Oxford (fax 01865 794143), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the UK within the past year.

Broad sweeps seem to be this month鈥檚 theme in Oxford: Nearly Everything, 1543-2001 and the Big Questions, leavened with Walter Gratzer鈥檚 collection of scientific anecdotes and the Ig Nobel archive of achievements in all conceivable 鈥� and several inconceivable 鈥� fields that 鈥渃annot or should not be reproduced鈥�. The house magazine of the Ig Nobels, the Annals of Improbable Research, catches the mood with a 鈥淪pecial Issue on Everything鈥�.