With many people’s minds turning to what they can get for presents in the holiday season we will take the opportunity to list some excellent books related to science that are educational and entertaining:

• Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character packaged with an hour-long audio CD of the 1978 “Los Alamos from Below” lecture.
• The Best American Science Writing 2005 – articles included by Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Atul Gawande and Natalie Angier.
• Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz
• God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History by Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene.
• DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson and Andrew Berry.
• The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore.

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I am not related to John Hunter, the surgeon, though a Google search connects us – in that the results include links related to both of us. So my site, John Hunter, is competing with sites about, or related, to a surgeon born in 1728 (which may only be interesting to me).