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Opus Dei: The Truth About Its Rituals, Secrets and Power

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Opus Dei: The Truth About Its Rituals, Secrets and Power by John L Allen Penguin Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0141024658 Thanks to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code...
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A Teaspoon and an Open Mind

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A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: What Would an Alien Look Like? Is Time Travel Possible? and Other Intergalactic Conumdrums from the World of...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Norton Paperback, £12.69, ISBN 978-0-393-32912-4 Is there life after death and, if so, how can we find out? One...
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After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life

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After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life By Mark Vernon Palgrave Macmillan £18.99 ISBN 0230013414 It is a shame that Mark Vernon and his version...
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Contact with Alien Civilizations

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Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials By Michael A G Michaud Copernicus Books (Springer Science + Business Media), £17.50 (hb), ISBN 0-387-28598-9 Probably....
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Newton: A Very Short Introduction

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Newton: A Very Short Introduction by Rob Lliffe Oxford University Press, £6.99, ISBN 978 0 19 929803 7 Rob Lliffe is well placed to analyse the life...
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Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

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Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian Oxford University Press, £14.99 (hb), ISBN 0-19-928718-X The glorious Sokal booby-trap of 1996 seems to have done...
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert Faber and Faber, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0-571-23166-3 In some ways I feel these 243 pages are too few. There...
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