Topic: science

Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, The

A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

• James Kakalios

2010

Drive

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• Daniel H. Pink

2009 · 1 like

Weaving the Web

• Tim Berners-Lee

2001

Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)

• Neal Stephenson

2000 · 3 likes

Oryx and Crake

• Margaret Atwood

2004

Left Hand of Darkness, The

• Ursula K. Le Guin

2000 · 1 like

Neuromancer

• William Gibson

2004 · 3 likes

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

The Reinvention of Nature

• Donna J. Haraway

1990

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Feminism and Technoscience

• Donna J. Haraway

1997

Art of Electronics, The

• Paul Horowitz

1989

Pattern Recognition

• William Gibson

2005 · 2 likes

Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?

Thinking from Women's Lives

• Sandra Harding

1991

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

• R. Buckminster Fuller

2008 · 1 like

Traffic

Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

• Tom Vanderbilt

2009 · 1 like · 1 review

How to Lie with Statistics

• Darrell Huff

1993 · 1 like · 1 review

Brain That Changes Itself, The

Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)

• Norman Doidge

2007 · 2 read · 1 like · 1 review

Predictably Irrational

The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

• Dan Ariely

2009

Paradox of Choice, The

Why More Is Less

• Barry Schwartz

2005 · 1 read · 3 likes

Why We Buy

The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

• Paco Underhill

2008

Why We Make Mistakes

How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

• Joseph T. Hallinan

2010

Tipping Point, The

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• Malcolm Gladwell

2002 · 1 read · 5 likes

Stumbling on Happiness

• Daniel Gilbert

2007 · 1 read

Brain Rules

12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

• John Medina

2009

Language of Mathematics, The

Making the Invisible Visible

• Keith J. Devlin

1998

Cartoon Guide to Statistics

• Larry Gonick

1994

Visual Thinking

Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Printing

• Rudolf Arnheim

2004

Blink

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

• Malcolm Gladwell

2007 · 1 read · 1 like

Paradox of Choice, The

Why More Is Less

• Barry Schwartz

2004

Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)

• Robert B. Cialdini

2007 · 1 read · 1 like

Anathem

• Neal Stephenson

2010

Where Good Ideas Come From

The Natural History of Innovation

• Steven Johnson

2010

Everything Bad is Good for You

How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

• Steven Johnson

2006

Cryptonomicon

• Neal Stephenson

2002

Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

• Douglas R. Hofstadter

1999

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

• Dan Ariely

2010 · 1 read · 2 likes

You Are Not a Gadget

A Manifesto (Vintage)

• Jaron Lanier

2011

Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

• Douglas Adams

2002

Information, The

A History, a Theory, a Flood

• James Gleick

2011

Shallows, The

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

• Nicholas Carr

2011

Consciousness Explained

• Daniel C. Dennett

1992

How to Lie With Statistics (Penguin Mathematics)

• Darrell Huff

1991

Future Shock

• Alvin Toffler

1984

Black Swan, The

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2007

Black Swan, The

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2008

Emotions Revealed, Second Edition

Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

• Paul Ekman Ph.D.

2007

Sway

The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

• Ori Brafman

2009

To Engineer Is Human

The Role of Failure in Successful Design

• Henry Petroski

1992

Inviting Disaster

Lessons From the Edge of Technology

• James R. Chiles

2002

On Growth and Form

The Complete Revised Edition

• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

1992

NurtureShock

New Thinking About Children

• Po Bronson

2011

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)

• Mitchel Resnick

1997

Life on the Screen

Identity in the Age of the Internet

• Sherry Turkle

1997