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Arthur & Ruth Winter,
Brain Workout (St. Martin's Press, 1997) The importance of fitness for the workings of the brain. |
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Amir Aczel,
Probability 1 (Harcourt Brace, 1998) Why it is certain that there is extraterrestial life. |
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Emma Tennant,
Burnt Diaries (Canongate Books, 1999) A revelatory account of the writer's long lasting affair with Britain's poet laureate Ted Hughes. |
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David Wells,
Curious and interesting mathematics (Penguin, 1997) Faits divers from the world of mathematics. |
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Christopher Janaway,
Schopenhauer (Oxford University Press, 1994) His life and work. |
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A.C. Grayling,
Russell (Oxford University Press, 1996) His life and work. |
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Fatima Mernissi,
Scheherazade Goes West (Simon & Schuster, 2001) A provocative multicultural critique. |
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David Bodanis,
E=mc2 (Walker Books, 200) "Biography" of the most famous equation of the 20th Century. |
PBS Documentary |
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Simon Blackburn,
Being Good (Oxford University Press, 2001) An essay on ethics. |
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Andy Behrman,
Electroboy (Random House, 2002) A memoir of mania. |