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  • Simply Math

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Simply
    Understanding math has never been easier.Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Math is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short on time but hungry for knowledge.Covering more than 80 key mathematical theories from prime numbers and matrices to logarithms and quadratic equations, each pared-back, single-page entry explains the concept more ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sneaky Math

    A Graphic Primer with Projects

    by Cy Tymony ...
    Series series Sneaky Books
    “By capitalizing on these real-world applications, Tymony helps conquer much of the fear and dread associated with traditional math lessons.” (Booklist)Cy Tymony, author of the best-selling Sneaky Uses series, brings his unique, fun hands-on learning approach to all things math.Many people fear math and numbers, even Barbie, who famously said “Math class is tough” in her controversial 1992 talking ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Staff Engineer's Path

    by Tanya Reilly ...
    For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Swamp

    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

    “Brilliant.” —The Washington Post Book World * “Magnificent.” —The Palm Beach Post * “Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.” —The New RepublicThe Everglades i****n southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Knocking on Heaven's Door

    How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

    by Lisa Randall ...
    “Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands….How good it feels to have Lisa Randall’s unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.”—Richard Dawkins“Dazzling ideas….Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.”—Steven PinkerThe bestselling author of Warped Passages, one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and one of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Love Letter to the Earth

    The world-renowned Zen monk argues for a more mindful, spiritual approach to environmental protection and activism—one that recognizes people and planet as one and the sameWhile many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What Is a Thought? The Ontology of Thinking

    Ontological Mathematics, #2

    Series Book 2 - Ontological Mathematics
    What connects your thoughts to the world? If your thoughts are not connected to the world, how can you understand the world? How can you bridge the gulf between thought and non-thought? If you don't understand what your own thoughts are, and what they are made of, how can you understand reality, and what reality is made of?The universe is literally made of language - a single, ubiquitous language, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bugs In The System

    Insects And Their Impact On Human Affairs

    by May Berenbaum ...
    An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both the positive and negative aspects of the relationship. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    **A “**concise and utterly enlightening” look at why we can’t wrap our minds around climate change (Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifth Generation Warfare

    Dominating the Human Domain

    Series series Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts.Non-kinetic modes of attack and war waged by groups or non-state actors at the societal level has been termed 5GW. This book discusses the theory of generational warfare and explores the key ideas of 5GW, such as secrecy, the manipulation of proxies, the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Finding Home

    Shelter Dogs & Their Stories

    by Traer Scott ...
    Heart-touching photographs and rescue stories: “Do yourself a favor. Read Finding Home, then go out and adopt a shelter dog.” —Chicago TribuneBold, retiring, serious, sparkling, or quirky—the dogs in Traer Scott’s remarkable photographs regard us with humor, dignity, and an abundance of feeling. Scott began photographing these dogs in 2005 as a volunteer at animal shelters. Following the runaway ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert or Paradise

    Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lakes and Pond Construction

    by Sepp Holzer ...
    Desert or Paradise is a practical guide to restoring damaged, unproductive land by constructing or restoring lakes and ponds to support abundant edible landscapes. These provide fresh water mixed aquacultures, orchards and crops planted along the banks and literally reaquify the surrounding landscape to turn back the tide of encroaching desertification. Desert or Paradise will explain why natural ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

    Series Book 0 - A Norton Short
    In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    by Max Bennett ...
    “I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Determined

    A Science of Life without Free Will

    **The instant New York Times bestseller“Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street JournalOne of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Aftershock

    by R.D. Shah ...
    Series Book 3 - The Disavowed
    Pride comes before the fall.DSV, the elite secret service tasked with fighting Daedalus, the descendants of the Nazis, are on the run. Framed for a crime they didn’t commit, they are pursued not just by their mortal enemies, but the combined might of world government, as global public enemies number one.Led by special operative Ethan Munroe, the broken and bruised remnants of the once brilliant ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2022 Black Book

    The SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2022 Black Book is the 5th edition of our series on SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The book is targeted for beginners of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. This book covers the basic equations and terms of Fluid Dynamics theory. The book covers all the major tools of Flow Simulation modules like Fluid Flow, Thermal Fluid Flow, and Electronic Cooling modules. A chapter on basic ... Read more

    $35.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skunk Works

    A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

    This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Periodic Tales

    A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

    In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Climate Book

    The Facts and the Solutions

    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWe still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.**You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.In The Climate Book, Greta ... Read more

    $13.99 USD