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Netherworld: Discovering the Oracle of the Dead

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Netherworld: Discovering the Oracle of the Dead and Other Ancient Methods of Divination by Robert Temple Century, £17.99, ISBN 0712684042 A frustrating book on an interesting subject....
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The Book of Nothing: a natural history of “zero”

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The Book of Nothing by John D Barrow Vintage, £8.99, ISBN 0099288451 Barrow is a professor of mathematical sciences, and author of “Theories of Everything” and “Impossibility”. This...
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An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment Age

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An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara Icon Books, £9.99, ISBN 1840463481 “Electricity has one considerable advantage over most other branches of science,...
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How To Build A Time Machine

Phil -
How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies The Penguin Press, £9.99, ISBN 0713995831 Like “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” with a bodice-ripping cover, this little...
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A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley

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A Magick Life: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth Coronet Books, £8.99, ISBN 0340718064 If you believe in magic as much as in little green...
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Fairies in Nineteenth-century Art and Literature

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Fairies in Nineteenth-century Art and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature & Culture) by Nicola Bown Cambridge University Press, £40, ISBN 0521793157 Victorians were fascinated by fairies....
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A User’s Guide To The Brain

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A User's Guide to the Brain by John Ratey Little, Brown, £12.99, ISBN 0316854069 The author of this 400+ pages book is clinical professor at Harvard Medical...
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Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations

Phil -
Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond Vintage, £7.99, ISBN 0099428334 Because the medium through which most people knew John Diamond was his Times column, in...
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