The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew Alan Lightman
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams and Mr. g comes a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
With all the passion, curiosity, and pr...
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth Robin Hanson
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot...
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou
'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'.Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.The full inside story of the breathtaking r...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky
*The New York Times* bestseller“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, *The Wall Street Journal*
"It has my vote for science book of the year.” — Parul Sehgal, The New York Ti...
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking,...
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control Kathleen Taylor
Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensationa...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art James Nestor
'I highly recommend this book' Wim HofTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS SHOWThere is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, huma...
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility Stewart Brand
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspir...
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life John Gribbin
'Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' Sunday TimesThe world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom ...
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition Don Norman
Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics. Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to tur...
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman James Gleick
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was...
Group Theory and Physics S. Sternberg
This book is an introduction to group theory and its application to physics. The author considers the physical applications and develops mathematical theory in a presentation that is unusually cohesive and well-motivated. The book discusses many mod...
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society Norbert Wiener
This is one of the fundamental documents of our time, a period epitomized by the concepts of ‘information’ and ‘communications’. Norbert Wiener, a child prodigy and a great mathematician, coined the term ‘cybernetics’ to characterize a very general ...
Irresistible Adam Alter
“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity.” — Ad...
Models of My Life Herbert A. Simon
In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A brilliant...
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer
Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensa...
A New Kind of Science Stephen Wolfram
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 grap...
Numerical Optimization Jorge Nocedal and Stephen Wright
Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods...
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals Michael Pollan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to tab...
The Phantom Pattern Problem: The Mirage of Big Data Gary Smith and Jay Cordes
Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible patterns that can be identified relative to the number ...
Productive Thinking Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a pioneer of 20th-century psychology, had a major influence on the development of cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of perception and of productive thinking. His work "Productive Thinking" (1945), written in...
Quantum Computing Since Democritus Scott Aaronson
Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an am...
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Matt Ridley
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how i...
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization Donald W. Braben
A revolutionary and timely proposal for reinvigorating transformative scientific discovery, written by a preeminent leader in Venture Research.
So rich was the scientific harvest of the early 20th century that it transformed entire industries and e...
Society of Mind Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "soci...
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty Nancy Etcoff
A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.
In Survival of the Prettiest , Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and ...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analy...
Trades, Quotes and Prices Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Julius Bonart, Jonathan Donier
The widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequency data has revolutionised the study of financial markets. By describing not only asset prices, but also market participants' actions and interactions, this wealth of information offers a new ...
Turing's Cathedral George Dyson
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neuma...
Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand
The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do this, they urgently need to abandon much conventional environmental wisdo...
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems Didier Sornette
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic p...
