Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination by Joyce Appleby
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics by Mark Ronan (Hardcover)
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society by Mary Poovey
The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention by Robert K.G. Temple (Hardcover)
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
Oak: The Frame of Civilization William Bryant Logan
Worlds Without End: The Exploration Of Planets Known And Unknown by John S. Lewis (Hardcover)
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
The Story of God by Robert Winston
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Kevin Fong
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking (Hardcover)
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee (Hardcover)
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They Are by Henry Petroski
Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson
10 Billion by Stephen Emmott
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman (Hardcover)
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz by Brian Clegg
Food Fray: Inside the Controversy Over Genetically Modified Food by Lisa H. Weasel (Hardcover)
Complete And Utter Zebu: The Shocking Lies We're Told Every Day by Simon Rose, Steve Caplin
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling