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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

The best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" --funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its... (more)

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Vintage)

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Vintage)

by Edward O. Wilson

"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." -- The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants --gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson... (more)

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his... (more)

Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition

Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition

by A.M. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

n time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment.

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

by Lisa Randall

The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory.... (more)

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United... (more)

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

by Roger Penrose

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do? In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose--eminent physicist and winner, with Stephen... (more)

Flawless Consulting : A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

Flawless Consulting : A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

by Peter Block

The second edition of the "consultant's bible" is here! For over fifteen years, consultants--both internal and external--have relied on Peter Block's landmark bestseller, Flawless Consulting , to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. Using illustrative examples, case studies, and exercises, the author, one of the most important and well known in his field, offers his legendary... (more)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of... (more)

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

by Richard P. Feynman

"Few books really are 'a joy to read.' This one, full of charm and wisdom, truly is." ( New Scientist ) A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track --collecting over forty years' worth of... (more)

The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection)

The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection)

by Freeman Dyson

An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls “one of the world’s most original minds.” From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of Nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination... (more)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting (Computational Neuroscience)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting (Computational Neuroscience)

by Eugene M. Izhikevich

In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers an introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems theory for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience. It also provides an overview of neuroscience for mathematicians who want to learn the basic facts of electrophysiology. Dynamical Systems... (more)

Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective

Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective

by P. B. Checkland

"Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology research for that decade." Hamish Rennie, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1992 Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach,... (more)

Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making

Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making

by Paul M. Collier

Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasizes the interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information and encourages a critical, rather than unthinking acceptance, of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real life business situations in service,... (more)

Organizations

by John M. Ivancevich, James L. Gibson, James H. Donnelly

Managing people and their behavior in organizations is one of the most challenging tasks anyone could face. Gibson's Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes, Twelfth Edition, presents theories, research results, and applications that focus on managing organizational behavior in small, large, and global organizations. It is organized and presented in a sequence based on behavior, structure, and processes.... (more)

Arsenals of Folly: Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War

Arsenals of Folly: Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War

by Richard Rhodes

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war—and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. In a narrative that reads like a thriller, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms... (more)

Economics for Managers

by Paul G. Farnham

For one semester MBA Managerial Economics courses. To be competitive in today's business environment, managers must understand how both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic forces must be considered when making business decisions. This is the only book that provides business students and MBA's with a thorough and applied understanding for both microeconomics and macroeconomics.

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

by Leon Lederman

In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration of human curiosity. It ends with the quest for the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists... (more)

Research Methods for Business Students (3rd Edition)

Research Methods for Business Students (3rd Edition)

by Mark Saunders

This revised and fully-updated edition continues to provide students with the knowledge, understanding an necessary skills to complete a piece of business research. The content is academically rigorous with an engaging and accessible style. Written as a self-study guide, the reader is taken step-by-step through the research process, while numerous worked examples, real-life case studies and student activities... (more)

Encounter the Enlightened: Conversations with the Master

Encounter the Enlightened: Conversations with the Master

by Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev

Encounter the Enlightened is a guiding beacon of divine wisdom and inspiration for all persons seeking self-realization and an experience of the unbounded nature of life. Master, mystic and yogi Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev presents a rare glimpse of undiluted truth from discourses given to yoga disciples and other audiences at his ashram in south India and around the world. A tool of tremendous value in an age... (more)

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Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

by Edward O. Wilson

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

by A.M. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

by Lisa Randall

by Richard Rhodes

by Roger Penrose

by Peter Block

by Richard Rhodes

by Richard P. Feynman

by Freeman Dyson

by Eugene M. Izhikevich

by P. B. Checkland

by Paul M. Collier

by John M. Ivancevich, James L. Gibson, James H. Donnelly

by Richard Rhodes

by Paul G. Farnham

by Leon Lederman

by Mark Saunders

by Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev