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Martin Gardner and the book jacket for The Ambidextrous Universe

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Why The Ambidextrous Universe is a masterpiece of science writing

Don鈥檛 read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very happy to make his readers work 鈥� to enthralling effect, says Jacklin Kwan

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Douglas Hofstadter and Godel, Escher, Bach

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G枚del, Escher, Bach: A daunting but captivating look at consciousness聽

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Henrietta Lacks’s descendant on her legacy – and Rebecca Skloot’s book

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Why Schr枚dinger’s 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient

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Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today

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Oliver Sacks and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

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After news about Oliver Sacks’s “lies”, we revisit his best-loved book

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Environment

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

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Mathematics

Fermat’s Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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