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  1. The Earth: An intimate history by Richard Fortey, HarperCollins

  2. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Allen Lane/Penguin

  3. Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin, Allen Lane/Penguin

  4. Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Slater, Bloomsbury

  5. Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi, HarperCollins

  6. Seashore by Peter Hayward, Collins

  7. Rhythms of Life by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Profile

  8. The Fly in the Cathedral by Brian Cathcart, Viking/Penguin

  9. 100 Suns: 1945-1962 by Michael Light, Jonathan Cape/Random House

  10. The Human Mind by Robert Winston, Bantam/Transworld

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