A Prodigious Feat

Terrible Beauty: A History of the People & Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

By Peter Watson

In The Mind’s Eye

Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors

By Pascal Boyer

The Shadows Lengthen

The Grammars of Creation

By George Steiner

Naked at a Party

The Private Life of the Brain

By Susan A Greenfield

All You Need To Know

The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness

By Antonio Damasio

Objectively Speaking

Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy

By Bernard Williams

Brain Matters

Nature Via Nurture: The Origin of the Individual

By Matt Ridley

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

By Simon Baron-Cohen

Evolutionary Minds

A Devil's Chaplain

By Richard Dawkins

DNA: The Secret of Life

By James D Watson

Apocalypse Now

Our Final Century: Will The Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century?

By Martin Rees

A Man Of Gravity

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London

By Lisa Jardine

Missives from the Monastry

Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story

By James Burge

Man and Beast

So You Think You're Human?

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

A Brief History of the Human Race

By Michael Cook

A Stitch In Time

Atomic Angst

The Bomb: A Life

By Gerard DeGroot

The Progress of Pulchritude

On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea

By Umberto Eco (ed)

A Theory to Believe In

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination

By Marek Kohn

Herbert’s Law

A Life of H L A Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Nicola Lacey