Thomas L White Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest...

Massimo Piattelli PalmariniThis highly enjoyable read covers provocative recent discoveries in the study of the mind. Demonstrates that everyone is prone to certain "cognitive" illusions or biases in thinking which...

Professor Konrad Knopp Careful presentation of fundamentals of the theory by one of the finest modern expositors of higher mathematics. Covers functions of real and complex variables, arbitrary and null...

David PapineauIntroducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to explain consciousness....

Ib A Svendsen This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering....

Dan ArielyThree-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street...

Alan D Abbey "Columbia is lost; there are no survivors" -- President George W Bush, 1 February 2003. Ramon's life stands as a beacon to those who despair of triumph...

Howard Hillman This book takes the mystery out of creative cooking by requiring love, imagination, art -- and science from the cook. Hillman's years of experience render cooking conundrums comprehensible...

Simon WinchesterThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast...

Athena Coustenis and Therese EncrenazWhat is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are...

David Attenborough   In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more...

Albert-Laszio Barabasi A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost...