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  1. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media

  2. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam

  3. The Blue Planet by Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes, BBC

  4. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge

  5. Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins

  6. Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama, Profile Books

  7. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University Press

  8. The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson, Little, Brown

  9. I Have Landed by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape

  10. The Field by Lynne McTaggart, HarperCollins

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