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1Calendar by David Ewing Duncan, Fourth Estate

2The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman, Penguin

3From Brains to Consciousness? by Steven Rose, Princeton University Press

4The Little Book of Science by John Gribbin, Penguin

5The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth, Macmillan

6A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster

7The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, Ebury Press

8The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Oxford University Press

9The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, Jonathan Cape

10Visions by Michio Kaku, Oxford University Press

Already reprinting a week or so after publication, The Science of Discworld is heading up the charts. It looks as if Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen could have a monster hit on their hands. Perhaps the magic of the Discworld does work on Earth after all.

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