Sciences et techniques

Mind Performance Projects for the Evil Genius : 19 Brain-Bending Bio Hacks

de Brad Graham & Kathy McGowan

Have some evil fun inside your head!This wickedly inventive guide offers 19 build-it-yourself projects featuring high-tech devices that can map, manipulate, and even improve the greatest computer on earth-the...

Schaum's Outline of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Third Edition

de Kent Van de Graaff, R. Ward Rhees & Sidney L Palmer

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams....

Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation

de Britton C. Rorabaugh

This is the eBook version of the printed book.The Most Complete, Modern, and Useful Collection of DSP Recipes: More Than 50 Practical Solutions and More than 30 Summaries of Pertinent Mathematical Concepts for...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

de Simon Singh

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations,...

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

de Brian Greene

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?...

On the Significance of Science and Art

de Leo Nickolayevich Tolstoy

Although Tolstoy is best known as a master of literary fiction, he was also an important thinker with a voracious and wide-ranging intellect. In this extended look at the intersection between science and art,...

Physics DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition

de Stan Gibilisco

Understanding PHYSICS just got a whole lot EASIER!Stumped trying to make sense of physics? Here's your solution. Physics Demystified, Second Edition helps you grasp the essential concepts with ease.Written in...

Ideas And Opinions

de Albert Einstein

A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist...

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

de Dan Fagin

“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the...

Botanica Delira: More Stories of Strange, Undiscovered, and Murderous Vegetation

de Chad Arment

Botanica Delira is a companion anthology to Flora Curiosa. It includes 21 additional classic short stories of unusual (and often deadly) plants, flowers, and fungi from science fiction and fantasy. Some stories...

Teardowns : Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart

de Bryan Bergeron

Learn practical electronics from a skilled mentor!“The text is written as if Dr. Bergeron, who is a highly experienced electronics practitioner, is speaking directly to the reader with a point-by-point commentary...

Schaum's Outline of College Chemistry, Ninth Edition

de Jerome Rosenberg, Lawrence M. Epstein & Peter Krieger

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's...

Practice Makes Perfect Calculus

de Dr. William Clark & Sandra McCune

Practice Makes Perfect has established itself as a reliable practical workbook series in the language-learning category. Now, with Practice Makes Perfect: Calculus, students will enjoy the same clear, concise...

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

de Neil Shubin

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that...

Fluid Mechanics DeMYSTiFied

de Merle Potter

Your solution to mastering fluid mechanics

Need to learn about the properties of liquids and gases the pressures and forces they exert? Here's your lifeline! Fluid Mechanics Demystified helps you absorb the essentials...

Out Of Control: The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

de Kevin Kelly

<> Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.<>

The Evolution Conspiracy, Volume 1: Exposing Life's Inexplicable Origins & the Cult of Darwin

de Lisa A. Shiel & Tyler A. Kokjohn

EVOLUTION.

A deceptively simple word that has transformed the way we look at ourselves and everything around us. Once considered unique, man has been reduced to little more than another animal, thanks to evolutionary...

Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update Edition

de David P. Clark

Molecular Biology

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

de Spencer Wells

Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the...

Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico

de Steve Lohr

"Go To...is smooth, creamy, entertaining...delightful. It is a sort of Iliad for the computer age."--David Gelernter, New York Times