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The Fly in the Cathedral by Brian Cathcart, Viking/Penguin
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Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford, Faber and Faber
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The Ancestor鈥檚 Tale by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Critical Mass by Philip Ball, Heinemann/Random House
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The Book Nobody Read by Owen Gingerich, Heinemann/Random House
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Politics of Nature by Bruno Latour, Harvard University Press
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Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer, Heinemann/Random House
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Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin, Allen Lane/Penguin
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Organisms and Artifacts by Tim Lewens, Bradford Books/MIT Press
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The Life and Death of Smallpox by Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn, Profile Books
Information supplied by Heffers, Cambridge (fax 01223 568591), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in Britain within the past year.
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