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This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing – Andrew Bennett & Nicholas Royle

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  Routledge ISBN 978-1-40-825401-1 Hundreds of novels jostle on shelves, waiting to be seen to. In the corner, a ziggurat of poetry books flutters its pages....
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Rocket: Owners’ Workshop Manual – David Baker

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Haynes Manuals, ISBN 10: 0857333712 Now that people feel that they can't mend their own cars, Haynes Manuals seem to be turning their attention to...
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The Impostor: BHL in Wonderland – Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte

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Counterblasts, Verso Books, ISBN 978-1-84467-748-1 Donning rubber gloves and waders, two French journalists help each other stay upright as they sift through the verbiage and...
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Origins: the scientific story of creation – Jim Baggott

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OUP ISBN: 9780198707646 This is a fasten-your-seat-belt ride all the way from the Planck Epoch to the dawning of consciousness, the consciousness that the world has...
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A Numerate Life by John Allen Paulos

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Prometheus, ISBN 1633881180 As an avid reader of Paulos's books since the 1990s - such as Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences, and Beyond Numeracy:...
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The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

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Profile Books, £7.99 (pb), ISBN 1846681111 The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew DilnotReviewed by Michael HuttonOur lives...
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The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Oxford University Press, £13.99, ISBN 0195313682 Snake Oil Science: the Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine By R. Barker Bausell Reviewed by Ray Ward Bausell covers the rise...
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal

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OUP,  £20.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7 A decade ago, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont published Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science, a book written to provide...
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