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

  2. What Shape is a Snowflake? by Ian Stewart, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  3. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks, Picador

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

  5. How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

  6. It Must Be Beautiful edited by Graham Farmelo, Granta

  7. The Common Thread by John Sulston, Bantam

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

  9. Genes, Girls and Gamow by James Watson, Oxford University Press

  10. Mercator by Nicholas Crane, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

After the necessary didactic efforts comes a touch…

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