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'Guns, Germs and Steel'
A short history of everybody
for the last 13,000 years

Jared Diamond

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

Michael Macrone

'Ancient Egypt'

General Editor: David P. Silverman

'Riddles of the Sphinx'

Paul Jordan

'Euthanasia'
The Heart of the Matter

Andrew Dunnett

'A City Possessed'
The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

Lynley Hood

'The Media We Deserve'

David Salter

'First Do No Harm'
The Sexual Abuse Industry

Felicity Goodyear-Smith

'The Beauty Myth'
How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Naomi Wolf

'Real Gorgeous'
The Truth about Body and Beauty

Kaz Cooke

'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

'How Was it Done?'
The Story of Human Ingenuity Through the Ages

Reader's Digest

'How Is It Done?'

Reader's Digest

'Did You Know?'

Reader's Digest

'Why in the World?'

Reader's Digest

'Germs'
Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

'Why Eve Doesn't Have an Adam's Apple'
A Dictionary of Sex Differences

Carol Ann Rinzler

'The Code Book'
The Science of Secrecy from
Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Simon Singh

'The Calendar'
The 5000-Year Struggle to Align
the Clock and the Heavens

David Ewing Duncan

'The Women's History of the World'
(aka 'Who Cooked the Last Supper?')

Rosalind Miles

'The Weather Makers'

Tim Flannery

'Good Muslim, Bad Muslim'
America, The Cold War,
and the Roots of Terror

Mahmood Mamdani

'A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper'

John Allen Paulos

'The Age of Sacred Terror'

Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon

'The Next Attack'
The Globalization of Jihad

Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon

'Our Final Century'
Will Civilisation Survive
the Twenty-First Century?

Martin Rees

'Do-Gooders'
How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim To Help
(And the Rest of Us)

Mona Charen

'What on Earth Happened? ...In Brief'
The Planet, Life & People from
the Big Bang to the Present Day

Christopher Lloyd

'Sex, Bombs and Burgers'
How War, Porn and Fast Food
Created Technology As We Know It

Peter Nowak

'The Long Summer'
How Climate Changed Civilization

Brian Fagan

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

Carl Sagan

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
A Trilogy in Five Parts
Humour, Science Fiction

Douglas Adams

'Contact'
Science Fiction

Carl Sagan

'How to Poison Your Spouse the Natural Way'
A Kiwi Guide to Safer Food

Jay D Mann

'Brainwash'
The Secret History of Mind Control

Dominic Streatfeild

'Stealing God's Thunder'
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod
and the Invention of America

Philip Dray

'Collapse'
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

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'Barbarians'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Terry Jones

'Rameses'
Wrath of God or Man?

TV Documentary

'Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt'
TV Documentary

'Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece'
TV Documentary

'Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome'
TV Documentary

'Ancient Rome'
The Rise and Fall of an Empire

TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

'Journey of Life'
TV Documentary, 5 Episodes

'Planet Earth'
TV Documentary, 11 Episodes

David Attenborough

'The Story of 1'
TV Documentary Series

Terry Jones

'Life'
TV Documentary, 7 Episodes

David Attenborough

'Walking with Dinosaurs'

TV Documentary Series

'First Life'
TV Documentary Series

David Attenborough

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Last Updated Apr 2013