Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best...

Robert M SapolskyAn Updated Guide To Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and CopingThis delightful, empowering book encourages readers to understand stress, to laugh about it, and then to bring it under...

Katie Dayes and Colin KingThis astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original...

Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now...

Sam Harris Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith & reason in the modern world, arguing that the threat of mass destruction is too great for...

Ray KurzweilThe great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest, thrilling...

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...

Werner HeisenbergThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern...

Max JammerThe concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter,...

Max JammerAlthough the concept of space is of fundamental importance in both physics and philosophy, until the publication of this book, the idea of space had never been treated in...

Richaed DawkinsRichard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, sets out to pull down all the principles that organized religion is based on, arguing against the existence of a personal god who is...

Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens The automobile. The microscope. The Internet. Without these amazing inventions, our lives would be totally different. But how did these cool creations come...