Reading List

SCIENCE: GENERAL

Atkins, Peter – Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2015
Binney, James – Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2016
Bryson, Bill – A Short History of Nearly Everything, Black Swan Books, 2004
Catling, David C – Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2013
Cox, Brian & Cohen, Andrew, Human Universe, William Collins, 2014
Kauffman, Stuart – At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity, Viking, 1995
Lenton, Tim – Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2016
Lovelock, James – Gaia : A New Look At Life On Earth, Oxford University Press, 1995
Moore, Pete - The Great Ideas That Shaped Our World, Friedman/Fairfax, 2002
Polkinghorne, John – Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2002

THE COSMOS

Coles, Peter – Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2001
Cox and Cohen – Wonders of the Universe, Harper Collins, 2011
Davies, Paul – The Goldilocks Enigma, Penguin, 2006
Davies, Paul – The Mind Of God: Science & The Search For Ultimate Meaning, Penguin, 1992
Gingerich, Owen – God's Universe, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
Hawking, Stephen – The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books, 2001
Hawking, Stephen and Mlodinow, Leonard – The Grand Design, Transworld Publishers, 2010
Krauss, Lawrence M – A Universe from Nothing, Simon and Schuster, 2012
Rees, Martin – Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe, Phoenix, 2000

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Understanding Evolution

Alexander, Denis – Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose? Monarch Books 2008
Dawkins, Richard – The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004
Dawkins, Richard – The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam Press, 2009
Dawkins, Richard – The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1989
Dennett, Daniel – Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Simon and Schuster, 1995
Howard, Jonathan – Darwin: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2001
Miller, Kenneth – Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, Harper Perennial, 2007
Ruse, Michael – Can A Darwinian Be A Christian? – Cambridge University Press, 2000
Ruse, Michael – The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Harvard University Press, 2005
Wilson, David Sloan – Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society, The University of Chicago Press, 2002
Wilson, David Sloan – Evolution for Everyone, Bantam Dell, 2007

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Querying Evolution

Dembski, William – No Free Lunch, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007
Denton, Michael – Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, Adler and Adler, 1986
Fuller, Steve – Dissent over Descent, Icon Books, 2008
Myer, Stephen – Signature In The Cell, HarperOne, 2009

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE – Theology and Evolution

Wilson, David Sloan – Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society, The University of Chicago Press, 2002

BRAIN, MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Beauregard and O'Leary – The Spiritual Brain, Harper One, 2007
Blackmore, Susan – Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005
Dennett, Daniel – Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, 1991
Newberg, Andrew – Why We Believe What We Believe, Free Press, 2006
O'Shea, Michael – The Brain: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2005
Pinker, Steven – How The Mind Works, Penguin 1997
Schwartz and Begley – The Mind and the Brain, Harper, 2002

SCIENCE AND GOD: GENERAL

Alexander, Denis – Rebuilding The Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century, Lion, 2001
Collins, Francis – The Language of God, Free Press ,2006
Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion, Black Swan Books, 2006
Dennett, Daniel C – Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Penguin Books, 2007
D'Souza Dinesh – What's So Great About Christianity, Regnery Publishing, 2007
Goldacre, Ben – Bad Science, Fourth Estate, 2008
Harris, Sam – Letter To A Christian Nation, Bantam Press, 2007
Harris, Sam – The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, Simon and Schuster, 2006
Hitchens, Christopher – God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion, Atlantic Books, 2007
Hitchens, Christopher – The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer, Da Capo Press, 2007
Hitchens, Peter – The Rage Against God, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010
Houghton, John – The Search For God: Can Science Help? John Ray Initiative, 2007
Humphreys, John – In God We Doubt: Confessions of a Failed Atheist, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007
Lennox, John – God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Lion, 2007
Lennox, John – Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target, Lion, 2011
McGrath, Alister – Dawkins' God, Blackwell, 2005
McGrath, Alister – Inventing the Universe: Why We Can't Stop Talking About Science, Faith and God, Hodder & Stoughton, 2015
McGrath, Alister – The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, Doubleday, 2004
Masood, Ehsan – Science & Islam: A History, Icon Books Ltd, 2009
Newberg, Andrew – Why God Won't Go Away – Random House, 2001
Onfray, Michel – Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Arcade Publishing Inc, 2005
Polkinghorne and Beale – Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses To Questions about God, Science and Belief – Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
Robertson, David - The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths,Christian Focus, 2007
Stenger, Victor – God, The Failed Hypothesis, Prometheus Books, 2007
Ward, Keith – The Big Questions In Science and Religion, Templeton Foundation Press, 2008
Ward, Keith – Why There Almost Certainly Is A God, Lion, 2008
Williams, Peter S – A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism, Paternoster, 2009
Wolpert, Lewis – Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Faber and Faber Limited, 2006

CHRISTIANITY

Colson, Charles – The Faith, Zondervan, 2008
Colson and Pearcey – How Now Shall We Live? Tyndale House, 1999
Lewis, C S – Mere Christianity, Collins, 1952
Stott, John – Basic Christianity – Intervarsity Press, 1958
Woodhead, Linda – Christianity: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2004

ISLAM

Aslan, Reza – No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, Arrow Books, 2011
Esposito, John L - Islam: The Straight Path, Oxford University Press, 2011
Ruthven, Malise – Islam: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, 2000

BUDDHISM

Keown, Damien - Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2013
Rahula, Walpola – What the Buddha Taught, Grove Press, 1974