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'Science Matters'
Achieving Scientific Literacy

Robert M Hazen, James Trefil

'The Unnatural Nature of Science'
Why science does not make
(common) sense

Lewis Wolpert

'Unravelling the Mind of God'
Mysteries at the Frontier of Science

Robert Matthews

'Borderlands of Science'

Charles Sheffield

'Calculated Risks'
How to Know when Numbers Deceive You

Gerd Gigerenzer

'Conceptual Physics'

Paul G. Hewitt

'The Elegant Universe'
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and
the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

'The Fabric of the Cosmos'

Brian Greene

'Our Cosmic Habitat'

Martin Rees

'How The Universe Got Its Spots'
Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Jana Levin

'The Natural History of the Universe'
From the Big Bang to the End of Time

Colin A. Ronan

'To the Ends of the Universe'
A Voyage through Life, Space and Time

Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest

'Strange Universe'
The Weird and Wild Science of
Everyday Life — on Earth and Beyond

Bob Berman

'The Universe Next Door'
Twelve mind-blowing ideas from
the cutting edge of science

Marcus Chown

'The Whole Shebang'
A State of the Universe(s) Report

Timothy Ferris

'Time'
A Traveler's Guide

Clifford A. Pickover

'A Brief History of Time'
From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

'The Search for Infinity'
The Mysteries of the Universe

Gordon Fraser, Egil Lillestol, Inge Sellevag

'Creation Revisited'
The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe

Peter Atkins

'The Naked Ape'
A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

Desmond Morris

'The Blind Watchmaker'
Why the Evidence of Evolution
Reveals a Universe without Design

Richard Dawkins

'The Selfish Gene'

Richard Dawkins

'A Devil's Chaplain'
Reflections on Hope,
Lies, Science, and Love

Richard Dawkins

'River Out of Eden'
A Darwinian View of Life

Richard Dawkins

'Evolution vs. Creationism'
An Introduction

Eugenie C. Scott

'The Counter-Creationism Handbook'

Mark Isaak

'The Rise and Fall of the
Third Chimpanzee'
How our animal heritage
affects the way we live

Jared Diamond

'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'
Evolution and the Meaning of Life

Daniel C. Dennett

'The Physics of Star Trek'

Lawrence M. Krauss

'Beyond Star Trek'
Physics from Alien Invasions
to the End of Time

Lawrence M. Krauss

'The Biology of Star Trek'

Robert Jenkins & Susan Jenkins

'To Seek Out New Life'
The Biology of Star Trek

Athena Andreadis

'The Computers of Star Trek'

Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

'The Science of Jurassic Park
and the Lost World'
or, How to Build a Dinosaur

Rob DeSalle & David Lindley

'The Science of Discworld'

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Discworld II'
The Globe

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Discworld III'
Darwin's Watch

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Harry Potter'
How Magic Really Works

Roger Highfield

'The Science of Star Wars'
An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination
of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots
as Portrayed in the Star Wars films

Jeanne Cavelos

'The Science of Superheroes'

Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

'The Real Science Behind The X-Files'
Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants

Anne Simon

'A Teaspoon and an Open Mind'
The Science of Dr Who

Michael White

'How to Clone the Perfect Blonde'
Making Fantasies come True
with Cutting-edge Science

Sue Nelson & Richard Hollingham

'In Our Own Image'
Building an Artificial Person

Maureen Caudill

'Hyperspace'
The Scientific Odyssey through
Parallel Universes, Time Warps
and the 10th Dimension

Michio Kaku

'Big questions in science'

Edited by Harriet Swain

'Secrets of Science'
Exciting, unbelievable, incredible
and all true

Graham Phillips

'The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence'

Edward Ashpole

'Evolving the Alien'
The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

'Life Out There'
The Truth of — and Search for —
Extraterrestrial Life

Michael White

'Sharing the Universe'
The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

Seth Shostak

'The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence'
A Philosophical Inquiry

David Lamb

'In Search of the Big Bang'
Quantum Physics and Cosmology

John Gribbin

'In Search of the Double Helix'
Quantum Physics and Life

John Gribbin

'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat'
Quantum Physics and Reality

John Gribbin

'In Search of the Edge of Time'
The Definitive Account of the Science
of Time, Time Travel and Time Machines

John Gribbin

'What Makes You Tick?'
The Brain in Plain English

Thomas B. Czerner

'The Human Brain'
A Guided Tour

Susan Greenfield

'The Blank Slate'
The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

'Billions and Billions'
Thoughts on Life and Death
at the Brink of the Millennium

Carl Sagan

'Remaking Eden'
Cloning, Genetic Engineering
and the Future of Humankind?

Lee M Silver

'Perfect Copy'
Unravelling the Cloning Debate

Nicholas Agar

'A Consumer's Guide to GM Food'
From Green Genes to Red Herrings

Alan McHughen

'Improving Nature?'
The science and ethics of genetic engineering

Michael J Reiss & Roger Straughan

'Genetic Engineering'
Dreams and Nightmares

Enzo Russo, David Cove

'The Last Mortal Generation'

Damien Broderick

'Immortality'
How Science is Extending your Lifespan
and Changing the World

Ben Bova

'Profiles of the Future'
An inquiry into the limits of the possible

Arthur C. Clarke

'Yes, We Have No Neutrons'
An Eye-Opening Tour through the
Twists and Turns of Bad Science

A. K. Dewdney

'Genome'
The Autobiography of a Species
in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan

'Paradigms Regained'
A Further Exploration of the
Mysteries of Modern Science

John L. Casti

'Planetary Dreams'
The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth

Robert Shapiro

'A Little Knowledge ...'
A World of Ideas from Archimedes
to Einstein Clearly Explained

Michael Macrone

'The Theory of Almost Everything'
The Standard Model, the Unsung
Triumph of Modern Physics

Robert Oerter

'If A Lion Could Talk'
Animal Intelligence and the
Evolution of Consciousness

Stephen Budiansky

'The Universe and the Teacup'
The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

K C Cole

'Why is Uranus Upside Down?'
And other questions about the Universe

Fred Watson

'Leonardo da Vinci'
The First Scientist

Michael White

'Galileo'
A Life

James Reston, Jr

'Isaac Newton'
The Last Sorcerer

Michael White

'Galileo's Daughter'
A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

Dava Sobel

'The Eerie Silence'
Are We Alone in the Universe?

Paul Davies

'A Short History of Nearly Everything'

Bill Bryson

'Emotion'
The Science of Sentiment

Dylan Evans

'The Planets'

Dava Sobel

'The Seven Daughters of Eve'
The Science that Reveals
our Genetic Ancestry

Bryan Sykes

'Adam's Curse'
A Future Without Men

Bryan Sykes

'Genes and Future People'
Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics

Walter Glannon

'Kluge'
The Haphazard Constuction
of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus

'The Origins of Virtue'

Matt Ridley

'The Moral Landscape'
How Science Can Determine
Human Values

Sam Harris

E=mc²
A Biography of the World's
Most Famous Equation

David Bodanis

'Unravelling Genes'
A layperson's guide to
genetic engineering

Mark Walker & David McKay

'The Second Creation'
The age of biological control by
the scientists who cloned Dolly

Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge

'How to Fossilise Your Hamster'
And other amazing experiments
for the armchair scientist

Mick O'Hare

'A Universe From Nothing'
Why there is Something
Rather than Nothing

Lawrence M. Krauss

'The First 3 Minutes'
A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
(Outdated in places but still interesting)

Steven Weinberg

'Written in Stone'
The Hidden Secret of Fossils
and the Story of Life on Earth

Brian Switek

'Virus Ground Zero'
Stalking the Killer Viruses with
the Centers for Disease Control

Ed Regis

'Lost Discoveries'
The Ancient Roots of Modern Science
— from the Babylonians to the Maya

Dick Teresi

'Boffinology'
The Real Stories Behind Our
Greatest Scientific Discoveries

Justin Pollard

'Stepping Through the Stargate'
Science, Archaeology and the
Military in Stargate SG-1

Edited by P. N. Elrod, Roxanne Conrad

'As Far As We Know'
Conversations about science,
life and the universe

Paul Callaghan and Kim Hill

'Physics of the Impossible'
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers,
Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel

Michio Kaku

'Rare Earth'
Why Complex Life Is
Uncommon in the Universe

Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee

'The Grand Design'
New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

'Pale Blue Dot'
A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan

'The Serpent's Promise'
The Bible Retold as Science

Steve Jones

'Warped Passages'
Unraveling the Mysteries of the
Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Lisa Randall

'Just Six Numbers'
The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

Martin Rees

'Big Bang'
The Origin of the Universe

Simon Singh

'Out of Eden'
The Peopling of the World

Stephen Oppenheimer

'Beyond UFOs'
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its
Astonishing Implications for Our Future

Jeffrey Bennett

'Woman'
An Intimate Geography

Natalie Angier

'What if the Moon Didn't Exist'
Voyages to Earths That
Might Have Been

Neil F. Comins

'Death by Black Hole'
And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Climbing Mount Improbable'

Richard Dawkins

'Knocking on Heaven’s Door'
How Physics and Scientific Thinking
Illuminate the Universe and the
Modern World

Lisa Randall

'The Moon'
A Biography

David Whitehouse

'The Invasion of the Moon 1969'
The Story of Apollo 11

Peter Ryan

'Why Aren't They Here?'
The Question of Life on Other Worlds

Surendra Verma

'The Science of Interstellar'

Kip Thorne

'Uncentering the Earth'
Copernicus and On the Revolution
of the Heavenly Spheres

William T Vollmann

'The Physics of Christmas'
From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer
to the Thermodynamics of Turkey

Roger Highfield

'Born in Africa'
The Quest for the Origins
of Human Life

Martin Meredith

'The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Human Prehistory'

Robert J. Meier

'A Shortcut Through Time'
The Path to the
Quantum Computer

George Johnson

'Alien Universe'
Extraterrestrial Life in Our
Minds and in the Cosmos

Don Lincoln

'The Prehistoric Boy-Racer Gene'
And other Tales from
Modern Science

Bob Brockie

'Your Inner Fish'
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year
History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

'The Neandertal Enigma'
Solving the Mystery of
Modern Human Origins

James Shreeve

'The New Universe
and the Human Future'
How a Shared Cosmology
Could Transform the World

Nancy Ellen Abrams and
Joel R. Primack

'What If You Could
Unscramble an Egg?'

Robert Ehrlich

'On Being'
A Scientist's Exploration of the
Great Questions of Existence

Peter Atkins

'Walking Zero'
Discovering Cosmic Space and
Time along the Prime Meridian

Chet Raymo

'Parallel Worlds'
A Journey Through Creation, Higher
Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

'The Science of Avatar'

Stephen Baxter

'What's Science Ever Done For Us?'
What The Simpsons Can Teach
Us About Physics, Robots,
Life, and the Universe

Paul Halpern

'Death From the Skies!'
These Are the Ways
the World Will End

Philip Plait

'Confessions of an Alien Hunter'
A Scientist's Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Seth Shostak

'Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics'
Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs
and Flat-Out Destructions of the
Basic Laws of the Universe

Tom Rogers

'Longitude'
The True Story of a Lone Genius
Who Solved the Greatest Scientific
Problem of his Time

Dava Sobel

'The Science of TV's
The Big Bang Theory'
Explanations Even Penny
Would Understand

Dave Zobel

'The Science of
Battlestar Galactica'

Patrick Di Justo
and Kevin Grazier

'Bad Ideas?'
An Arresting History
of Our Inventions

Robert Winston

'Hollyweird Science'
From Quantum Quirks
to the Multiverse

Kevin R. Grazier and
Stephen Cass

'The World Without Us'

Alan Weisman

'The Secret Life of Dust'
From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter,
the Big Consequences of Little Things

Hannah Holmes

'Dreaming'
An Introduction to the
Science of Sleep

J. Allan Hobson

'What If?'
Serious Scientific Answers to
Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

'Q & A'
Cosmic Conundrums and
Everyday Mysteries of Science

Robert Matthews

'The Greatest Show on Earth'
The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

'The Scientific Secrets
of Doctor Who'

Simon Guerrier and
Dr Marek Kukula

'The Particle at the End of the Universe'
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Sean Carroll

'Higgs Discovery'
The Power of Empty Space

Lisa Randall

'Why is Sex Fun?'
The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Jared Diamond

'If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens
... Where Is Everybody?'
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

Stephen Webb

'A More Perfect Heaven'
How Copernicus Revolutionised
the Cosmos

Dava Sobel

'How To Think Like a Neandertal'

Thomas Wynn and
Frederick L. Coolidge

'Water From Heaven'
The Story of Water from the Big Bang
to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond

Robert Kandel

'The Truth About Santa'
Wormholes, Robots, and What
Really Happens on Christmas Eve

Gregory Mone

'The Big Picture'
On the Origins of Life, Meaning,
and the Universe Itself

Sean Carroll

'The Realization of Star Trek Technologies'
The Science, Not Fiction, Behind
Brain Implants, Plasma Shields,
Quantum Computing, and More

Mark E. Lasbury

'It's Not Rocket Science'
Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas
Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science

Ben Miller

'Stiff'
The Curious Lives
of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

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'Planet Science'
TV Documentary Series

'Naked Science'
TV Documentary Series

'Science Friction: Creation'
Creationism, TV Documentary

'A War on Science'
Creationism, TV Documentary

'Walking with Cavemen'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Prof Robert Winston

'Before We Ruled the Earth'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'Walking with Dinosaurs'

TV Documentary Series

'What Really Killed the Dinosaurs'

TV Documentary

'Forensics Under Fire'
TV Documentary

'The Science of Superman'
TV Documentary

'The Web of Life'
TV Documentary

David Suzuki

'Life After People'
TV Documentary Series

'Human Ape'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'Neanderthal Code'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'Secrets of the Cosmos'
TV Documentary

'The Time Lords'
TV Documentary

'Life is Impossible'
TV Documentary

'On the Dark Side'
Dark Matter

TV Documentary

'Brain Story'
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Susan Greenfield

'The Day the Earth was Born'

TV Documentary

'Journey to the Edge of the Universe'
TV Documentary

National Geographic

'Through The Wormhole'
TV Documentary, 8 Episodes

Morgan Freeman

'Wonders of the Solar System'
TV Documentary, 5 Episodes

Professor Brian Cox

'Wonders of the Universe'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Professor Brian Cox

'Do You Know What Time It Is?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'Can We Make a Star on Earth?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'Planet Dinosaur'
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

BBC

'Are We Still Evolving?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Dr Alice Roberts

'The Cell'
TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

Dr Adam Rutherford

'The Story of Science'
Power, Proof and Passion
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Michael Mosley

'The Cosmos'
A Beginners's Guide
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Adam Hart-Davis

'Stephen Hawking's
Grand Design'
TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

Stephen Hawking

'Into the Universe
with Stephen Hawking'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Stephen Hawking

'The Big Bang Theory'
TV Comedy Series

Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco,
Johnny Galecki

'Contagion'
Movie, Drama

Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law,
Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow

'Interstellar'
Movie, Science Fiction

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway

'The Martian'
Movie, Science Fiction

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain

'Arrival'
Movie, Science Fiction

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner
Forest Whitaker

'NUMB3RS'
TV Detective Series

Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz

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