The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
by Gina Kolata


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The latest edition of the popular annual series dedicated to collecting the best, most relevant, and most thought-provoking science writing of the year features articles from a wide variety of publications and covers provocative and engaging topics.... (read more)

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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga


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One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. What happened along the... (read more)

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Electric Universe
by David Bodanis


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For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention... (read more)

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The Way Science Works
by Robin Kerrod


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Eye-opening experiments bring science to life for young readers in this title that explains everyday occurrences and the theories behind the technology in today's fast-moving world. Includes more than 100 hands-on projects. Full color.... (read more)

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Robotics Demystified
by Edwin Wise


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There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects McGraw-Hill's Demystified titles are the most efficient, interestingly written, brush-ups you can find. Organized as self-teaching guides, they come complete with key... (read more)

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Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Bulent Atalay


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Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the... (read more)

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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel




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While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more)

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The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History
by Bruce Stephenson


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The search for understanding creates more than answers; it also produces instruments, books, maps, and other tools made and used by those seeking knowledge. The Universe Unveiled uniquely focuses on these artifacts and devices resulting from the attempts... (read more)

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The History of Science and Technology: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People Who Made Them from the Dawn of Time to T
by Bryan Bunch


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The most comprehensive and up-to-date chronology of its kind, "The History of Science and Technology gives a global overview of scientific developments and technological innovations from prehistoric times into the twenty-first century. With more than 7... (read more)

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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg




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What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out... (read more)

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FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
by Neil Gershenfeld


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What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ago, the notion of “personal computers” in every home sounded like science fiction. According to... (read more)

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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
by John Brockman


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More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... (read more)

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Bionics for the Evil Genius: 25 Build-It-Yourself Projects (Evil Genius)
by Newton C Braga


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THE EVIL GENIUS TACKLES BIONICS! Step into the future -- (or the past, if you have a touch of Dr. Frankenstein in your soul) -- with these 25 incredibly cool bionic experiments! Demonstrating how life forms can be enhanced, combined, manipulated, and... (read more)

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The Illustrated Longitude
by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes


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A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a... (read more)

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A World Without Time: the Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
by Palle Yourgrau


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In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel suffered a major episode of depression that required a stay at a mental hospital. Upon his release, Albert Einstein, his colleague at the Institute for Advanced Studies, took Godel under his wing and, to cheer him up... (read more)

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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams


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In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our... (read more)

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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
by Siva Vaidhyanathan


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The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of our increasingly plugged-in world. Siva Vaidhyanathan draws the struggle for information that will determine much of the culture and... (read more)

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123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius with Other
by Michael Predko


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123 ROBOT EXPERIMENTS! <P>123 STEPS NEEDED TO BRING OUT THE GENIUS IN EVERY BASEMENT HOBBYIST!<P>If you enjoy tinkering in your workshop and have a fascination for robotics, you'll have hours of fun working through the 123 experiments found... (read more)

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