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Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects... |
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The New Science of Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self
Paul L Nunez - Prometheus Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership. The new science goes well beyond... |
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Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
Matt Stroud - Metropolitan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies adopted by law enforcement have actually made policing worse -- lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatory American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police... |
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Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA
Erin E Murphy - Nation Books,
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Josiah Sutton was convicted of rape. He was five inches shorter and 65 pounds lighter than the suspect described by the victim, but at trial a lab analyst testified that his DNA was found at the crime scene. His case looked like many others - arrest, swab, match, conviction. But there was just... |
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
Stuart Firestein - Oxford University Press,
Pages: 286
Format: Print book
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The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be further from the truth. Modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding... |
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The Cartoon Guide to Algebra
Larry Gonick - William Morrow & Co
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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In this latest edition of the successful Cartoon Guide series, master cartoonist and former Harvard instructor Larry Gonick offers a complete and up-to-date illustrated course to help students understand and learn this core mathematical course taught in American schools.Using engaging graphics... |
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Harriet A. Washington - Little, Brown Spark
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities. The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its controversial... |
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Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Johnny Ball - Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history - the story of mathematics. By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding... |
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg - Penguin Group USA
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kathryn Harkup - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often... |
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