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On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee - On Intelligence
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The Mind's Sky
Timothy Ferris
A look at the relationship between the cosmos and human beings explores the complexity of the human brain and what constitutes rea...
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Death's Acre
Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: on a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by in...
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The Joy of Pi
David Blatner
Publisher's Summary
No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a ...
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Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossiblefrom death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaksrevealing to what...
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of the Species ranks as one of the most important and  influential books ever written, and one that remains as cont...
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Longitude
The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of &nb...
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Blood, Bones, and Body Bits
Nick Arnold
Are you dying to find out what happens to food after you swallow it? Why dead people need a haircut? Which animals live on your ey...
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Catching Fire
Richard Wrangham
There are good reasons why, given a choice between raw and cooked food, most primates - including monkeys, chimpanzees, and the va...
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Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James ...
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The Pinball Effect
James Burke
Picking up the theme of his bestselling Connections and utilizing cross-chapter margin references that imitate computer hypertext,...
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The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? W...
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Mathemagics
Arthur Benjamin
Using proven techniques, this volume shows how to calculate faster than is possible with a calculator Amaze and mystify your frien...
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Oxford English for Computing
Boeckner +. Brown
Helps students to combine their knowledge of English with their technical knowledge. Develops all four skills through varied activ...
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Seeing What's Next
Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
Seeing What's Next is a framework for predicting industry winners and losers. Every day, individuals take action based on how they...
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What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It  suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wire...
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The Axemaker's Gift
James Burke, Robert Ornstein
Prolific psychologist Ornstein and historian Burke, best known for his PBS-TV series Connections, have written an ambitious, enter...
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