A nice selection from the Financial Times, spread across a few categories.
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou
- Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by PW Singer
- Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart
- Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman
- Science: The Definitive Visual Guide edited by Adam Hart-Davis
- Super-Organism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler and EO Wilson
- Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Steve Jones
- Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David JC MacKay
- Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
- Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich
- The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler
(Odd bit about this list -- Logicomix was in the Politics & Religion sections?)
(Thanks, Susan T.)
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