Section: Science

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Phillips Feynman, Edward Hutchings, and Ralph Leighton

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

Henry E. Dudeney (Author)

a beautiful mind

sylvia nasar

A Brief History of Creation

Bill Mesler (Author)

A Brief History of the Universe

J. P. McEvoy

A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

Samuel Bowles (Author)

A Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes

Wolf D. Storl

A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience

Carroll W. Pursell

A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam

George Saliba

A History of Astronomy (Dover Books on Astronomy)

Anton Pannekoek

A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

Douglas A Kelt and James L Patton

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

John Allen Paulos

A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

Walter Alvarez

A People's History of Science : Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"

Clifford D. Conner

A Planet of Viruses

Carl Zimmer

A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem

Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

Tom Shroder

Acid Trips and Chemistry

Dan Joy and Cam Cloud

Acres of Skin

Allen M. Hornblum

ADA Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist

Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice

Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

James Essinger

African American Women Chemists

Jeannette Brown

After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene

Jedediah Purdy

Against Bioethics (Basic Bioethics)

Jonathan Baron

Against Method

Paul Feyerabend and Ian Hacking

Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis

Alan Mathison Turing

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

Albert Einstein : Rebel Lives (Rebel Lives)

Albert Einstein, John Jenkins, and Tom Keeble

Albert Einstein Speaking

R. J. Gadney

Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Jim Al-Khalili

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

David Baron

An Anatomy of Thought : The Origin and Machinery of the Mind

Ian Glynn

An Equation for Every Occasion: Fifty-Two Formulas and Why They Matter

John M. Henshaw

An Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes

James L. Melsa and Andrew P. Sage

An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics

Terrell L. Hill

Animal Lore of Shakespeare's Time

Emma Phipson

Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World

Dr. Tad Daley

Aramis or the Love of Technology

Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter

Archimedes to Hawking: laws of science and the great minds behind them

Clifford A. Pickover

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Frans De Waal

Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know

Jerry Kaplan

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (P.S.)

John Colapinto

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Noam Chomsky

At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise

Michael Brooks

Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map

Katy Börner

Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Jon Butterworth

Awakening to Life: On the Education of Deaf-Blind Children in the Soviet Union

Alexander Meschcheryakov

Backyard Rocketry

Instructables.Com

Batman Science: The Real-world Science Behind Batman's Gear

Agnieszka Biskup and Tammy Enz

Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of the Universe

Brian Clegg

Behold, the Dinosaurs!

Dustin Harbin

Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing

Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe, and J. Burke

Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

Eden Medina

Beyond: Our Future in Space

Chris Impey

Bicycling Science : Third Edition

David Gordon Wilson

Big Science: The Growth of Large Scale Research

Peter Galison

Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Biological Exuberance

Bruce Bagemihl

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health

Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins

Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw

Bold Scientists: Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

Michael Riordon (Author)

Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms

Robert E. Schapire and Yoav Freund

Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life

Martin Meredith

Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics

Lundy Braun (Author)

Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Brian Clegg

Cartoon Guide to Physics

Larry Gonick and Art Huffman

Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind

Arthur Zajonc

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

Patrick Coffey

Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming

Mark Bowen

Challenging Problems in Geometry

Alfred S. Posamentier and Charles T. Salkind

Chance and Change: Ecology for Conservationists

William Holland Drury, W. H. Drury, John G. T. Anderson, and John G.T. Anderson

Chance in Evolution

Grant Ramsey

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Phillips Feynman

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela M. Doughman

Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy

Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby

Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity and the Future of Endangered Animals

Carrie Friese

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond

Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science

Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Computing: A Concise History

Paul E. Ceruzzi

Cosmos

Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ann Druyan

Course in General Linguistics

Ferdinand De Saussure

Critical Problems in Physics

Val L. Fitch, Daniel R. Marlow, and Margit A.E. Dementi

Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Eden Medina

Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth

Rob Wesson

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier (Author)

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

Vlatko Vedral

Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty Of Particle Physics

Bruce A. Schumm

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Cordelia Fine

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Galileo Galilei

Dialogues on the Human Ape

Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: monochrom's Arse Elektronika Anthology

Thomas Ballhausen, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry, and Gunther Friesinger

Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others

David Sloan Wilson

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Maya Dusenbery

Domesticated

Richard C. Francis

Drone

Adam Rothstein

Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn

Eating Apes (California Studies in Food and Culture, 6)

Janet K. Museveni, Dale Peterson, and Karl Ammann

Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes

Arthur I. Miller

Essays on the Theory of Numbers

Richard Dedekind

Eureka!: The Most Amazing Scientific Discoveries of All Time

Mike Goldsmith

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

Bill Nye

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

David Foster Wallace and Neal Stephenson (Foreword)

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

Edward O. Wilson, Michael Ruse, and Joseph Travis

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

Julian Huxley

Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life

Martin A. Nowak

Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights

Anita Guerrini

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago

Douglas H. Erwin

Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them

Benjamin Bold

Farewell to Reason

Paul K. Feyerabend

Feynman Lectures On Physics (Volume 3)

Richard Phillips Feynman

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flesh Machine; Cyborgs,Designer Babies, Eugenic Conscousness

Critical Art Ensemble and Critical Art Ensemble

From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You: A Primer on Radiation and Health

Dale Dewar and Florian Oelck

Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

Britt Rusert

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics

Ramamurti Shankar

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Genes, Cells, and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

Hilary Rose and Steven Rose

George Boole: His Life and Work

Desmond MacHale

Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research

Charis Thompson

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution (Leonardo Book Series)

George Gessert

Group theory and chemistry

David M. Bishop

Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics

Michael Tinkham

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Edward O. Wilson

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-And the World

Rachel Swaby

Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe

Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton

Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience

Michel Meulders and Laurence Garey

Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly

High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology

Donald A. Schn, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell

Honeybee Democracy

Thomas D. Seeley

How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts

Candis Callison

How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (Princeton Frontiers in Physics)

Abraham Loeb

How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art

Paul B. Armstrong

How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back

Gilbert Waldbauer

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

David Kaiser

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology

Léo Grasset

How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Personal Space Travel

Piers Bizony

How to Cut a Cake: and Other Mathematical Conundrums

Ian Stewart

How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets

Chris North

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

George Polya

How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics

N. Katherine Hayles

Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future

I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch

Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity

Alexander Harcourt

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

Michio Kaku

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter

I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing

Nancy Forbes

In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age

Stephanie Cooke

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

John Gribbin

Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age

Megan Shaw Prelinger

Introducing Empiricism

Dave Robinson

Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh

Introducing the Universe

Felix Pirani

Introduction to Crystallography

Donald E. Sands

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Daniel Clement Dennett (Author)

Inventing the 21st Century

Stephen Van Dulken

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

George Saliba

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

Richard Lewontin

Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors)

Kathleen McHugh

János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space

Jeremy Gray

Lab U.S.A.: Illuminated Documents

Kevin C. Pyle

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Paul R. Josephson

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

Melinda Cooper

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (In-formation)

Adriana Petryna

Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth

Danté Fenolio

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

Andrew H. Knoll

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Jim Al-Khalili

Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton

Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

Jonathan Weiner

Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel

Dorion Sagan

Making Computers Accessible: Disability Rights and Digital Technology

Elizabeth Petrick

Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Sarah Scoles (Author)

Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are

Jennifer M. Groh

Making the Body Beautiful

Sander L. Gilman

Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health

Critical Art Ensemble

Marxism and Science: Analysis of an Obsession

G. N. Kitching and Gavin Kitching

Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

Helena Sheehan

Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect

Joshua Angrist

Mathematics for the Curious

Peter M. Higgins

Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real

Albert Lautman and Simon Duffy

Measurement

Paul Lockhart

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

Rudy Rucker

Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory

Attila Szabo

Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

Sahotra Sarkar

Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

John Emsley

Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything

Theodore Gray

More Great Theories in Science: A Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg, William Rankin, and J. P. McEvoy

Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes: The Science of Animal Personalities

John Shivik

Mushroom

Nicholas P. Money

Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music (Volume 2)

Gareth Loy and John Chowning

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World

Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Stephen E. Deffeyes

NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America

Constance Penley

Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health

Emily Monosson

Natural World: A Visual Compendium of Wonders from Nature

Amanda Wood

Nature Cure

Gandhiji

Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science

Londa Schiebinger

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications

Richard R. John

Networked: The New Social Operating System

Barry Wellman and Lee Rainie

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman

Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

Institute Historian T. F. Peterson

Nonsense on Stilts

Massimo Pigliucci

Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

Dave Levitan

Number Freak: From 1 to 200-- the Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed

Derrick Niederman

Number Theory and Its History

Oystein Ore

Numbers: A Very Short Introduction

Peter M. Higgins

Numbers: The Universal Language

Denis Guedj

Objectivity

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us

David Neiwert

On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems

kurt godel

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Charles Darwin

On the Sensations of Tone: With a New Introd. (1954) by Henry Margenau

Hermann von Helmholtz

Order Out of Chaos

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

Kelly Gates

Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry

Tom Burns

Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World

Nick Lane

Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

Karen Messing (Author)

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit

Andrew Moore

Pax Tachnica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up

Philip N. Howard

People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Dickson D. Despommier and William C. Campbell

Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

Charles Parsons

Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time

Tim Maudlin

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

Michio Kaku

Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Lucas Ellerbroek

Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms

Ted Anton

Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany

Matthew Hall

Politics and technology in the Soviet Union

Bruce Parrott

Potentiality: Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions

John P. Lizza

Power and Invention: Situating Science (Theory Out of Bounds Series , Vo 10)

Isabelle Stengers

Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism & the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation

Eric Empson

Primate Visions; Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science

Donna J. Haraway

Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences

David N. Rapp and Jason L.G. Braasch

Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health

Ruth Hubbard

Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism

David F. Noble

Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Charles Seife

Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

Tom Burns

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945

Lars Heide

Punctuated Equilibrium

Stephen Jay Gould

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard Phillips Feynman and A. Zee

Quantum Computing Without Magic: Devices (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

Zdzislaw Meglicki

Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction

Eleanor G. Rieffel

Queer Feminist Studies: A Reader

Cyd Cipolla

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition

Stephen Jay Gould

Radical Prototypes

Judith F. Rodenbeck

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

Oren Harman, Michael Dietrich, William Dritschilo, Bruce Weber, Vinciane Despret, David Sepkoski, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Daniel Kevles, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, R. C. Lewontin, John Prebble, and Michael Ruse

Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry

James T. Andrews

Relativity (Routledge Classics)

Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Albert Einstein

Righting America at the Creation Museum

Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.

Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States

Steve Lerner and Phil Brown

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Samin Nosrat

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Annalee Newitz

Science and Islam

Ehsan Masood

Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Gary B. Ferngren

Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

Sandra Harding

Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

Naomi Oreskes

Science and the Retreat from Reason

John Gillott

Science As Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society

Stanley Aronowitz

Science Comics: Rockets: Defying Gravity

Anne Drozd and Jerzy Drozd

Science Unshackled: How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life

C. Renée James

Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union

Loren R. Graham

Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

Sandra Harding

Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison : Papers at Conference in Melbourne, May 25-30, 1981

Nathan Reingold and Marc Rothenberg

Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond

Andrew Petto (ed.)

Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism

Andrew J. Petto and Laurie R. Godfrey

Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century

Pedro Ruiz Torres, Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist, Penelope J. Boston, James Lovelock, and Lynn Margulis

Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change

Larry Laudan, Arthur Donovan, Arthur L. Donovan, and Rachel Laudan

Secret Cures of Slaves

Londa Schiebinger (Author)

Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

Jane Goodall

Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

Oliver Sacks

Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

Michelle Murphy

Selected Letters on Evolution and Origin of Species: With an Autobiographical Chapter

Francis Darwin

Selected Readings on Transformational Theory

Noam Chomsky, J. P. B. Allen, and Paul Van Buren

Selections from Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Alfred Korzybski (Author)

Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

Mark Shepard

Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Paul J. Cohen

Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Raymond M. Smullyan and Melvin Fitting

Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Sarah S. Richardson

Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World

Marlene Zuk

Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South

Edward J. Larson

Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know (Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Lisa Marr

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Donna J. Haraway

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

Richard Phillips Feynman

Soviet Science

Zhores A. Medvedev

Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters

Rosamond Wolff Purcell

Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History

Thomas Graham and Keith A Hansen

Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars

Ethan Pollock

Statistical Mechanics: Principles and Selected Applications

Terrell L. Hill

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Kitty Ferguson

Street-fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving

Sanjoy Mahajan

Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour (Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed)

Martin Nowak

Superman Science: The Real-World Science Behind Superman's Powers

Agnieszka Biskup and Tammy Enz

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Douglas R. Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen

Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution

Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky, Lynn Margulis, Victor Fet, and Peter H. Raven

Symmetry and Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy

Daniel C. Harris and Michael D. Bertolucci

Syntactic Structures

Noam Chomsky

Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience (Leonardo Books)

Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip

Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution

Jonathan Marks

Teratogenic Effects of Drugs: A Resource for Clinicians (TERIS)

J. M., Md, Ph.D. Friedman, Janine E., and Phd Polifka

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

W. Bernard Carlson

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

Cordelia Fine

The "Origin" Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the "Origin of Species"

David N. Reznick and Michael Ruse

The Alan Turing Codebreaker's Puzzle Book

Gareth Moore

The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species, A Facsimile of the First Edition

Charles Darwin and James T. Costa

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

Sanjoy Mahajan

The Astrolabe World Ephemeris, 2001-2050 at Midnight: Featuring Longitudes and Declinations for the Sun, Moon, Planets, Chiron and the Asteroids

Robert Hand (Author)

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge, Third Edition

Kirstin Dow and Taylor Downing

The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius

Mike Jay

The Big Book of Bugs

Yuval Zommer

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

Frank Pasquale

The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America

Jonathan D. Moreno

The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Andrea Moro and Noam Chomsky

The Brain's Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics

Victoria Pitts-Taylor

The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

Rob DeSalle (Author) and Patricia J. Wynne (Illustrator)

The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker

Eric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande

The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution

Elisabeth A. Lloyd

The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution

Elisabeth A. Lloyd

The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

David Quammen (Author)

The Companion Species Manifesto : Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

Donna J. Haraway

The Computer and the Brain (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

John von Neumann and Ray Kurzweil

The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (History of Computing)

Nathan L. Ensmenger

The Counter-Creationism Handbook

Mark Isaak

The Counter-Creationism Handbook

Mark Isaak

The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition

Ronald L. Numbers

The Crisis in Physics

Christopher Caudwell

The Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth

Alan Boss

The Damned Universe of Charles Fort

Louis Kaplan

The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series)

Charles Darwin and H. James Birx

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin

The Dialectical Biologist

Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin

The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen

The Double-Edged Helix: Science in the Real World (Convergence)

Liebe F. Cavalieri

The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society

Joseph S. Alper, Catherine Ard, Adrienne Asch, Peter Conrad, Lisa N. Geller, and Jon Beckwith

The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

Paul Davies

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy (Basic Bioethics)

Jeremy R. Garrett

The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies John F Kennedy School of Government Sheila Jasanoff and Sheila Jasanoff

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Charles Darwin

The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book

Michael J. Crowe

The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos

Robert P. Kirshner

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

Arthur Allen

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction

David Orrell

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals About Ourselves, Our History, and the Future

Dalton Conley

The Godelian Puzzle Book

Raymond M. Smullyan (10350) [2 title(s)]

The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary search for a theory of everything

Paul Halpern

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth

Barbara Seaman

The Haraway Reader

Donna J. Haraway

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities

Stephen Jay Gould

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

David Montgomery and Anne Biklé

The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction

Michael J. Benton

The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

DIANE ACKERMAN

The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise

David Takacs

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

The Inner History of Devices

Sherry Turkle (Author)

The Internet of Things

Samuel Greengard

The Invention of Modern Science (Theory Out of Bounds)

Isabelle Stengers and Daniel W. Smith

The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind

Don Lincoln

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

Stephen W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis, P. V. Landshoff, D. R. Nelson, D. W. Sciama, and S. Weinberg

The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet

Dimitar Sasselov

The Light at the Edge of the Universe

Michael D. Lemonick

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

Paul J. Nahin

The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

Howard Friel and Thomas E. Lovejoy

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (Science Essentials)

David Archer

The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science (Women Writing Science)

Julie Des Jardins

The Man Who Mistook His WIfe For a Hat

Oliver Sacks

The Many-Body Problem in Quantum Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics)

N.H. March, W.H. Young, and S. Sampanthar

The Marijuana Question and Science's Search for an Answer

Helen C. Jones and Paul W. Lovinger

The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson

The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field

Albert Einstein

The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field

Albert Einstein

The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

Peter Ward

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Clement Dennett

The Minimalist Program: 20th Anniversary Edition

Noam Chomsky

The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

Evelyn Fox Keller

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Irving B Harris Professor of Psychology Jean Decety, Jean Decety, and Thalia Wheatley

The Myth of Human Supremacy

Derrick Jensen

The Nature of Space and Time: (New in Paper) (The Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures)

Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose

The Orgasm Answer Guide

Barry R. Komisaruk, Beverly Whipple, Sara Nasserzadeh, and Carlos Beyer-Flores

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Sean M. Carroll

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

James Owen Weatherall

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

Sandra Harding

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition

Gregory S. Paul

The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History (PSL Edition) (Princeton Science Library)

Eli Maor

The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives

Brian Clegg

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks, and Stephen Rose

The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry

S. Nassir Ghaemi

The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity" Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece

Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn

The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould

Richard York and Brett Clark

The Science of Stress: Living Under Pressure

Gregory L. Fricchione

The Scoop on Poop: Safely Capturing and Recycling the Nutrients in Greywater, Humanure, and Urine

Dan Chiras

The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience

Matthew Rampley (Author)

The Self-organizing Social Mind

John Bolender

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Social Life of DNA

Alondra Nelson

The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory

Thomas Foster

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Stephen Jay Gould

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

Sam Kean

The Technological Society

Jacques Ellul

The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Rachel P. Maines

The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science

Walter M. Fitch

The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

Associate Professor of Computer Science David Gelernter and David Gelernter

The Two-Mile Time Machine

Richard B. Alley

The Undersea Network

Nicole Starosielski

The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

William Goldbloom Bloch

The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

Brian Clegg

The Unknown Universe: A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology

Stuart Clark

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (Foundations of Natural History)

Charles Darwin and Harriet Ritvo

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Nathan Wolfe

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

Nick Lane, Trombonist

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry Into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul

J. D. Bernal

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Lee Smolin

Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel

Paul J. Nahin

Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell

Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology

Snait B. Gissis

Treading on Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change: How Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives

Elizabeth Austin

Tree of Knowledge

Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco Varela

Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution

Edward J. Larson

Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others

Paul Harris

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science

David Lindley

Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration

Seth Shulman

Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene

Emily Monosson

Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health

Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman

Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide

Sander Bais

Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People

Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall

Visions of Technology : A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World (The Sloan Technology Series)

Richard Rhodes

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

Manuel Lima

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

John P. Gluck

War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Manuel Delanda

We Have Never Been Modern

Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michael A. Strauss

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

What is Mathematical Logic?

C. J. Ash, J. N. Crossley, C. J. Brickhill, J. C. Stillwell, and N. H. Williams

What Is Mental Illness?

Richard J. McNally

What's the Big Idea?: Amazing Science Questions for the Curious Kid

Vicki Cobb

When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technologies

Robert Vamosi

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

Michael Benton

When Species Meet (Posthumanities)

Donna J. Haraway

Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field

Heather Swan

Who's Asking?: Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education

Douglas L. Medin and Megan Bang

Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

Edward Tenner

Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States

Carol Gracie and Steven Clemants

Wilhelm Reich, Biologist

James E. Strick

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Rachel Ignotofsky

Women in Science: Then and Now

Vivian Gornick

Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972 (Women Scientists in America)

Margaret W. Rossiter

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

X-ray Diffraction

Bertram Eugene Warren

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin