52. The Limits to Growth - Donella & Dennis Meadows

 

"If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.  The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population an industrial capacity."  1972

A YouTube explanation I like is by Georg Rockall-Schmidt (parts one, two and three).

51. Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde

 

Great sequel to Shades of Grey

"Oh, brave new world that has such colours in it."

50. Abolish the Monarchy - Graham Smith

 

49. FLAGYL The story of a Pharmaceutical Discovery - J. A. McFadzean

 

Well, this seems a strange book to read but it's oddly personal.  When I announced to my family that I intended to go to university to study pharmacy, they said that there was a pharmacist in the family one Eric Baines who worked at May & Baker.  Apparaently he was the husband of one of my father's cousins - I never did meet him.  Well staring out of the pages - there he was, in charge of New Products Development who thought that the new drug showed promised when marketing were not supporting its development. 

48. Generation Rent - Chloe Timperley

 

47. Nothing but the Truth - The Secret Barrister

 

 I wasn't going to buy this book as I had read the previous books by the Secret Barrister (see 8 Stories of the Law and 38 Fake Law) but I read the first page and a half in the shop and it's the best hook ever!

 

 

 

46. Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'Brien