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  1. The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
  2. Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
  3. Almost Like A Whale by Steve Jones, Doubleday
  4. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
  5. The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
  6. Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter, Orion
  7. Faster: The acceleration of just about everything by James Gleick, Abacus
  8. Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Jonathan Cape
  9. Brain Story by Susan Greenfield, BBC Consumer Publishing
  10. The Maths Gene by Keith Devlin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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