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Taken By Storm
Christopher Essex, Ross Mckitrick
Climate and weather patterns, and their changes over time, can be nearly impossible to predict. Yet thousands of political, social...
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The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature...
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Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting th...
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The Riddle of the Compass
Amir D. Aczel
Amir Aczel's _The Riddle of the Compass_ tells a sweeping tale spanning continents and centuries. While this tale includes some ...
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he Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar experiments with experimental rocket-powered,...
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The Toyota Way
Jeffrey Liker
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry
In factories around the world, Toyota consisten...
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Quantum Memory Power
Dominic O'Brien
Dominic O'Brien, the 7-time world memory champion shares his ultimate tools for developing the perfect memory. Quantum Memory Powe...
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Vault of the Heavens
James B. Kaler
Since the beginning of recorded history, and likely for much longer than that, humankind has gazed to the heavens for clues to the...
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The Undercover Scientist
Peter J. Bentley
We all know that things go wrong: wine stains, toast burns, computers crash. But how many of us pause to think why these accidents...
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Your Inner Fish
Neil Shubin
Fish paleontologist Shubin illuminates the subject of evolution with humor and clarity in this compelling look at how the human bo...
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The Ancestor's Tale
Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor's Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contribut...
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Visions
Michio Kaku
Here's another entry in the game of predicting what science and technology will come up with after the turn of the millennium, thi...
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The Canon
Natalie Angier
From the Pulitzer prize winner and best-selling author of WOMAN, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. With t...
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A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Publisher's Summary: 64Kbps (Random House Audio)
Stephen Hawking's worldwide best seller, A Brief History of Time, has been ...
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a collection of short works from American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, s...
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The Black Hole War
Leonard Susskind
NY Times Book Review
This is your universe on acid: 10 dimensions of space, seven of which we cannot see, filled almost entirely w...
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Our Inner Ape
Franz De Waal
Its no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We ...
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Life in the Universe
Carl Sagan
Pulitzer Prize winning author and distinguished scientist Carl Sagan was known to millions of readers for his translucent explanat...
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Douglas Adams Last Chance to See
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Who would have thought that a book in the field of ecology/nature…could be as livel...
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In The Beginning Was The Nerd BBC
Stephen Fry
Taken From The BBC
Over on the Radio 4 blog you can hear an intriguing interview Stephen Fry conducted with Ross Anderson, P...
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Theory Of Everything
Stephen Hawking
In a series of 7 lectures, Stephen Hawking describes the history of the universe as we know it. He begins with the history of idea...
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Genome
Matt Ridley
For the first time in human history, we have now completely mapped the building blocks of life. Isn't it time you became familiar...
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The Head Trip
Jeff Warren
Jeff Warren moves through the latest thinking on consciousness, mind, and sleep, with ease and zany wit and humour. Written from t...
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Michio Kaku
Parallel Worlds
From Publishers Weekly
Well-known physicist and author Kaku (Hyperspace) tells readers in this latest exploration of the far reach...
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Our Angry Earth
Frederick Pohl, Isaac Asimov
Noted science and science fiction writer Asimov (the Foundation series) and novelist Pohl ( Chernobyl ) take a comprehensive look ...
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