When Computers Rule the World

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

By James Lovelock with Bryan Appleyard

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It All Began in Africa

The Man who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois

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Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the Course of Evolution

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Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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Mad as a Hatter

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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Climb Every Mountain

The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual

By Roland Jackson

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Top of the Atomic Pile

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

By David N Schwartz

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Life on Mars?

Aliens: Science Asks – Is Anyone Out There?

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All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life

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Ominous Auras

A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy

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Half-Life Stories

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

By Timothy J Jorgensen

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Tyrannosaurus, Ex

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

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Lunar Tics

Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life

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Unstable Particle

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

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Stars In Their Eyes

Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel

By Michael Hoskin

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Small Is Beautiful

Neutrino

By Frank Close

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Getting Warmer…

How to Find a Habitable Planet

By James Kasting

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Is There Anybody Out There?

The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?

By Paul Davies

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Whizz! Bang! Wallop!

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

By Patricia Fara

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The Shakespeare of Physics

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac Quantum Genius

By Graham Farmelo

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Destination Moon

Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth

By Robert Poole

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From the February 2008 Issue

Playing With Fire

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman

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