David BeatyInvestigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the question 'Why' that David...

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st CenturyWilliam J MitchellChristopher E Borroni-BirdLawrence D BurnsThis book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive...

The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline AccidentsR Key DismukesBenjamin A BermanLoukia D Loukopoulos"The Limits of Expertise" reports a study of the 19 major U.S....

Ali Almossawi“One of the more clever ways of introducing computational thinking to the general public.” —Vint Cerf, Turing Award winner, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, a 'Father of the Internet'Bad...

Homer HickamOctober Sky(Coalwood #1)The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small...

Yuval Noah Harari   Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless other have conquered it: us.What makes us brilliant?What makes...

The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships, and Enhance Self-EsteemGuy Winch, PhDAlthough life was physically more difficult in the days of the horse and...

Bill Bryson   In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as...

Francis S CollinsDoes science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates over the teaching of evolution, or stem-cell research, most of us...

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...

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner   Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug...

Franklin FoerFranklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.Over the past few decades there...