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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books
Format: Book
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Ian Bogost · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart · Basic Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's... |
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Idiot's Guides: Speed Math
Gaurav Tekriwal · Alphabooks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Do math more quickly and with more confidence - with less reliance on paper, apps, and calculators. For people who automatically run to the nearest calculator, Idiot's Guides: Speed Math teaches tips, tricks, and straightforward methods to doing math at a fast - and accurate - rate.... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions and social signals... |
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Dave Levitan · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A pull-no-punches guidebook, a la How to Lie with Statistics, to the many ways our elected officials distort science to serve politics. In 1980, Ronald Reagan created one of the dumbest talking points of all time: "I'm not a scientist, but . . ." Since then, politicians have... |
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The Stargazer's Handbook
Giles Sparrow · Quercus Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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From the craters of the Moon to the far reaches of Orion, "The Stargazer's Handbook" will enable you to explore space without leaving the comforts of Earth. All you need are a pair of binoculars and a clear night sky to experience the wonders of the universe. This book will... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies... |
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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters
Robert Muir-Wood · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that... |
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