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Atomic Achievements
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Andrew Crumey
Confessions of an Alien Hunter
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Charles Elliott
Is It a Bird? Is It a Flea?
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Piers Brendon
Bones of Contention
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Andrew Crumey
An Electromagnetic Personality
Einstein in Time & Space: A Life in 99 Particles
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Iain Bamforth
Getting High, Tripping Out
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By Mike Jay
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Daniel Rey
The God in the Machine
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion
By Nicholas Spencer
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A J Lees
When the Surgeon Met the Shrink
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis
By Seamus O’Mahony
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Steven Nadler
Confederacy of Deceivers?
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy
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Patricia Fara
Life’s Building Blocks
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
All in the Genes
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
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Dmitri Levitin
The G Word
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Call the Doctress
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Patricia Fara
Tick Tock Travelogue
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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Kate Wiles
Stars in Their Eyes
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
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Mathew Lyons
Breaking the Spell
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By Chris Gosden
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Roger Highfield
Smelling a Lab Rat
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
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Cathy Gere
All in the Brain?
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
By Anne Harrington
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Papa Franz’s People
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture
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Mathew Lyons
In Neptune’s Vast Dominions
Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800
By Margaret E Schotte
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