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  1. Facing Up by Steven Weinberg, Harvard University Press
  2. Germs by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Simon & Schuster
  3. The One Culture by Jay Labinger and Harry Collins, University of Chicago Press
  4. The Universe At Midnight by Ken Croswell, The Free Press
  5. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, Cambridge
  6. The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery, Heinemann
  7. Liaisons of Life by Tom Wakeford, Wiley
  8. Surviving Galeras by Stan Williams and Fen Montaigne, Little, Brown
  9. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World edited by Richard Talbot, Princeton
  10. Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis, Verso

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