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  • You Are Here

    A Portable History of the Universe

    “A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account” of the universe and our place in it, and “an idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book” (The Boston Globe).Here is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. The universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. Clouds of gas were woven into whatever ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought?Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right?Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    by Carl Sagan ...
    **A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”—Los Angeles Times**How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sync

    How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

    At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Complexity

    The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

    “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post).In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinventing Gravity

    A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein

    A physicist presents a bold revision of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity that could represent “a paradigm shift not seen since Newton” (Publishers Weekly).Since the 1930s, physicists have noticed an alarming discrepancy between the universe as we see it and the universe that Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts. Galaxies spin so fast that, based on the amount of visible matter in them, they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Helicopter Fundamentals Booklet

    This study guide includes basic helicopter fundamentals that every pilot should know including: principles in aerodynamics, flight maneuvers, and emergency recovery procedures. Topics such as Dissymmetry of Lift, Transverse Flow Effect, Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness and many more aerodynamic phenomenon are outlined in brief, easy to understand explanations. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Bitter Remedy

    A totally compelling historical mystery

    by Alis Hawkins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford Mysteries
    Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow…Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Math Real?

    How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

    by Eugenia Cheng ...
    One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answersWhere do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity—most importantly, from asking questions. This may come as a surprise to those who think that math is about finding the one ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Ghost Map

    The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

    A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life**“By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern implications is a true page-turner.” —The Washington Post“Thought-provoking.” —Entertainment Weekly**It's the summer of 1854, and London is just ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition

    The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Icepick Surgeon

    Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

    by Sam Kean ...
    From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

    **New York Times BestsellerInternational BestsellerAn Economist Best Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 So Far • A Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 Nominee • An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" PickA manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.**It’s not you, it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Blockchain Democracy

    Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd

    In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime. Magnuson argues that blockchain's popularity stands as a testament both to the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Man on the Moon

    The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

    "The authoritative masterpiece" (L. A. Times) on the Apollo space program and NASA's journey to the moonThis acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history. The astronauts themselves have called it the definitive account of their missions. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Parrot in the Mirror

    How evolving to be like birds made us human

    How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot? We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining human traits: our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing, and learning and language, all deep parts of what it means to be human, are far more similar to birds than to our fellow mammals. These ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Mathematics

    Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
    This compact, well-written history — first published in 1948, and now in its fourth revised edition — describes the main trends in the development of all fields of mathematics from the first available records to the middle of the 20th century. Students, researchers, historians, specialists — in short, everyone with an interest in mathematics — will find it engrossing and stimulating.Beginning with ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lotus Sutra

    The Lotus Sutra is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which several schools of Buddhism were established.The oldest parts of the text (Chapters 1-9 and 17) were probably written down between 100 BC and 100 AD: most of the text had appeared by 200 AD. The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sutra is the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, which translates to "the ... Read more

    $3.93 USD

  • The Knife Man

    Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

    by Wendy Moore ...
    The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter.When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.From humble origins, John ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Technology and Society, second edition

    Building Our Sociotechnical Future

    Series series Inside Technology
    Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values.Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. In order to influence the development of technology for the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Science

    Understanding the Social Study of Science

    `Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines landmark works, authors, concepts and approaches ... I will certainly use this book as one of the course texts′Eileen Crist, Associate Professor, Science & Technology in Society, Virginia TechScience ... Read more

    $71.99 USD