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1.The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by: Richard Holmes October 01, 2008
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2.The Selfish Gene by: Richard Dawkins March 16, 2006
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Dawkins is excellent while he sticks to biology however he may have lost the plot in the last chapter as he has in thinking promoting science involves attacking religion If an evangalist is someone who does not leave people to work it out for themselves but pushes his point of view Dawkins is one Nutty Baptists and Dawkins looked similar on channel 4 for example ie they both spin world events too far to promote a point of view

3.A Short History of Nearly Everything by: Bill Bryson June 01, 2004
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Well I love a good Bill Bryson book and this is surely the best. As a travel writer he has kept me interested and amused with many an exciting journey but this rates as the best journey he has ever written. A journey that takes the layman on a travel experience spanning billions of years including an insight into all the sciences and ologies one can imagine. If only I had been able to read science at school like this...I might well have found an interest.

4.Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by: Richard Fortey September 01, 2008
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This more than just a description of a museum. This is also a journey into the history of the natural sciences and a part biography as well. Well illustarted, Richard Fortey describes an institution that is trying hard (and succeeding if the new Darwin Centre is any guide)to move with the times, make science accesible to the public, yet has more going on behind the scenes than we could ever give credit. Anyone who lives in or visits London should pay more than one visit to this marvelous place, and thanks to this book they will be well briefed as to what goes and has gone on there.

5.A Short History of Nearly Everything by: Bill Bryson October 28, 2003
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Well I love a good Bill Bryson book and this is surely the best. As a travel writer he has kept me interested and amused with many an exciting journey but this rates as the best journey he has ever written. A journey that takes the layman on a travel experience spanning billions of years including an insight into all the sciences and ologies one can imagine. If only I had been able to read science at school like this...I might well have found an interest.

6.Fermat's Last Theorem by: Simon Singh June 05, 2002
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I was never a fan of maths at school. It did not come easily to me and I failed to see the relevance of trigonometry to my everyday life. I say this so you realise I am not some sort of science geek who was best friends with a calculator. That's because I found this book absolutely fascinating. It made me laugh 3 times in the first 20 pages alone! What Simon Singh does is through Fermat's puzzle describe the history of mathematics from Pythagoras right up to the 1990's. To the layman names like Euclid put in the mind very dull old guys, but they are brought to life with fascinating anecdotes. For example there's the tortured young French mathematician Galois who is dead by 20, his final mathematical theories frantically scribbled ... Read More:

7.Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by: Richard Hollingham August 07, 2008
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Blood and Guts is a pithy and readable history of surgery that does not hold back on the successes and the botches. One of the most amusing anecdotes became known as the "night of the pigs" and takes place in the National Heart Hospital in London in 1969. Surgeon Donald Longmore waits for a delivery of pigs. He plans to graft a pig's heart and lungs into a patient to keep him alive. One pig has other ideas and makes its escape onto Wimpole Street, pursued by gowned, capped, masked and booted theatre staff. The pig, now secured by the expert team, is taken to the mortuary to be put to sleep, but the anaesthetist assigned to the task is Jewish. Another anaesthetist is found, but there is another problem: the patient is ... Read More:

8.The Mad Science Book: Experiments from the Wilder Side of Science by: Reto U. Schneider September 04, 2008
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Blood and Guts is a pithy and readable history of surgery that does not hold back on the successes and the botches. One of the most amusing anecdotes became known as the "night of the pigs" and takes place in the National Heart Hospital in London in 1969. Surgeon Donald Longmore waits for a delivery of pigs. He plans to graft a pig's heart and lungs into a patient to keep him alive. One pig has other ideas and makes its escape onto Wimpole Street, pursued by gowned, capped, masked and booted theatre staff. The pig, now secured by the expert team, is taken to the mortuary to be put to sleep, but the anaesthetist assigned to the task is Jewish. Another anaesthetist is found, but there is another problem: the patient is ... Read More:

9.God the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by: Victor J. Stenger April 30, 2008
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A new addition to the recent new atheist polemics. Stenger has done only marginally useful scientific work. As for his suggestion that Anthropic Fine tuning is a non-problem because of his simplistic program MonkeyGod that purports to simulate universes and "show" that anthropic universes are commonplace, no serious cosmologist who takes this seriously. Martin Rees's "Just Six Numbers" is a good guide to the real science. This book might be useful to those who are making use of the freedom God has given them to reject Him (see Pascal on 'why God hides'), but in reality the case for theism has never been stronger. Evidence of the Big Bang, anthropic coincidences, the fantastic complexity and functionality of biological systems, and the deepening intractability ... Read More:

10.Einstein: His Life and Universe by: Walter Isaacson August 15, 2008
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Walter Isaacson has created a unique and wholely respectful insight into the life of one of the great scientific figures of the 20th century. As with any biography that is true to the subject and not retrospectively judgemental, Mr. Isaacson paints a very human picture of a man held in awe by most and misunderstood by many. This is a first rate book. I've taken one star off, as the scientific detail could even be shorter. Mr.Isaacson, keep writing please ! IRISH REVIEWER

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