Sam Gosling鈥檚 entertaining SNOOP (Profile/Basic Books) shows how our personality is exuded by our living spaces and possessions. Very revealing.
HUMAN by Michael Gazzaniga (HarperCollins) peers into our brains to tell us what makes humans unique and how the brain鈥檚 need to navigate complex social interactions eventually led to our capacity for art and science.
In THE BLACK HOLE WAR (Little, Brown) physicist Leonard Susskind recounts his epic battle with Stephen Hawking over the fate of information in black holes and the very nature of reality.
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ONLY A THEORY by Kenneth Miller (Viking) is a highly readable look into the clash between evolution and intelligent design. While presenting the evidence for evolution and debunking ID, Miller is sympathetic to the issues of meaning and value at the heart of the debate.
For an exceptional overview of the science and politics of global warming, read THE HOT TOPIC by Gabrielle Walker and David King (Bloomsbury): 鈥淧robably the single most important book on the subject to read between now and December 2009, when the world will, we must hope, negotiate the successor to the Kyoto protocol,鈥� said our reviewer.
Finally, for an amalgamation of brilliant reads, THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN SCIENCE WRITING (OUP), edited by Richard Dawkins, includes wonderful pieces by writers from Albert Einstein to Rachel Carson and Primo Levi.