Thomas Rid Thomas Rid’s revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar and pilotless flying bombs in World War Two...

Walter Isaacson A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek , Time , and The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling”...

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

David BerlinskySimply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds...

Don NormanEven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or...

Simon Singh   Combining impeccable history and intriguing stories of espionage and intellectual breakthroughs, this riveting bestseller, by the author of the popular science classic Fermat's Last Theorem, brings to...

Author: Michael Lewis Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat . . . not just...

Robert WrightIn his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining...

Josh Clark and Chuck BryantFrom the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast "Stuff You Should Know" comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and...

Tonka: If I Could Drive a Tonka Truck Michael Teitelbaum

Geoffrey A MooreThe possibilities are staggering:Had you invested $10,000 in Cisco Systems in early 1990, your investment would not be worth $1,285.000.Similarly, a $10,000 investment made in Microsoft in 1986...

James ReasonModern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the...