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  1. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know by P Trefil, Capricorn

  2. River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins, Allen &Unwin

  3. Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan, Hodder Headline

  4. Stephen Hawkings for Beginners by J. P. McEvoy and O. Zarate, Allen & Unwin

  5. The Cosmic Blueprint by Paul Davis, Penguin

  6. The Mind of God by Paul Davies, Penguin

  7. Cyberspace for Beginners by Joanna Buick, Allen & Unwin

  8. Future Eaters by Paul Flannery, Reed

  9. God’s Earth by Paul Collin, Harper Collins

  10. Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot, Penguin

Beginners, please. Smart Australians don’t mind people knowing what they don’t know, as Dymmock’s top ten list shows (Fax: (02) 232 5279). They want to fill in all the gaps from space and cyberspace, ecology and geology to evolution and the nature of God. And topping the list is a great gapfiller, James Trefil’s 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about Science, which has sold well in both the US and Britain.

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