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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems—And Create More
Luke Dormehl · Perigee Trade
Format: Hardcover |
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A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms - what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating... |
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
Donald G. McNeil Jr. · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 203
Format: Print book |
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A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika -- once considered a mild disease -- was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements
Paul Parsons · Quercus
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback |
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As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe.The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating... |
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Schaum's Outline of Beginning Chemistry: 673 Solved Problems + 16 Videos
David E Goldberg · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 650 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 16 detailed videos featuring... |
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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl
Martin Windrow · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover |
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The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen yearsMartin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel · HarperCollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine... |
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My Wild Life: A Memoir of Adventures within America's National Parks
Roland H. Wauer · Texas Tech University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book |
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Looking back at a wonderful way to make a living Few people have the opportunity to live and work in America's magnificent national parks, let alone in a wide diversity of those great parks. For thirty-two years, beginning when he was hired as a seasonal ranger until he retired... |
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
John Browne · Pegasus Books
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover |
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The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant.... |
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Downstream Toward Home: A Book of Rivers
Oliver A. Houck · Louisiana State University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develop into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways, from unnamed creeks and Louisiana... |
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