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About Time by Paul Davies, Penguin
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The Mind of God by Paul Davies, Penguin
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Fuzzy Thinking by Bart Kosko, Harper Collins
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The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies, Allen & Unwin
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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches by Douglas Rushkoff, Harper Collins
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Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know by Philip Trefil, Capricorn
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Seven Experiments That Could Change the World by Rupert Sheldrake, Allen & Unwin
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The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, Penguin
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River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins, Allen & Unwin
Australians enjoy home-grown books: Paul Davies, now at Adelaide University, plans to repay their enthusiasm for his titles. He鈥檚 campaigning to set up an Australian equivalent of the Royal Society to foster local science. Dymocks, Sydney (Fax: 02 232 5279), supplied the information for the top ten, reporting that science has a long shelf life: Feynman, Hawking and Gleick still sell strongly years after publication. You can find reviews of all these books on New Scientist鈥檚 Planet Science at
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