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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 24 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
By Stephen Hawking, 1990
ISBN 0553346148
Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe.
- Cosmos
By Carl Sagan, 1985
ISBN 0345331354
The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly...
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven D. Levitt, 2009
ISBN 0060731338
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007
ISBN 1400063515
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan...
- The Selfish Gene
By Richard Dawkins, 2006
ISBN 0199291152
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had...
- Einstein: His Life and Universe
By Walter Isaacson, 2008
ISBN 0743264746
By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature...
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
By Daniel J. Levitin, 2007
ISBN 0452288525
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging...
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2008
ISBN 1400067936
Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of...
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By Simon Singh, 2000
ISBN 0385495323
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
- Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
By Duncan J. Watts, 2004
ISBN 0393325423
The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are...
- Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
By Kip S. Thorne, 1995
ISBN 0393312763
In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists...
- Chaos: Making a New Science
By James Gleick, 2008
ISBN 0143113453
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius...
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
By Matt Ridley, 2006
ISBN 0060894083
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers.
- Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 2003
ISBN 0452284392
A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual...
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond, 2005
ISBN 0143036556
In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and...
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
By Ray Kurzweil, 2006
ISBN 0143037889
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best.
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By Michael Pollan, 2002
ISBN 0375760393
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants...
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
By Matt Ridley, 2003
ISBN 0060556579
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators.
- The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
By Lee Smolin, 2007
ISBN 061891868X
In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics -- the search for the laws of nature -- losing its way. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings have captured the public’s imagination -- and...
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
By M. Mitchell Waldrop, 1992
ISBN 0671872346
Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance...
- A New Kind of Science
By Stephen Wolfram, 2002
ISBN 1579550088
This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected...
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
By Steven Johnson, 2002
ISBN 0684868768
Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization...
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
By Edward O. Wilson, 1999
ISBN 067976867X
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning...
- The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By Brian Greene, 2011
ISBN 9780739383520
There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of...
