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Schrodinger's Rabbits: Entering The Many Worlds Of Quantum

by Colin Bruce

Linear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers

by Tyn Myint U.

Math Curse

by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A primer of mathematical writing (MSRI preprint)

by Steven G. Krantz

The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy

by Mark McCutcheon

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

In the Beginning Was Information

by Werner Gitt

Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

by John Derbyshire

Introduction to Special Relativity

by Wolfgang Rindler

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, Fourth Edition

by H. M. Schey

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

by James Essinger

Longitude

by Dava Sobel

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law

by Peter Woit

Games of Strategy, Second Edition

by Avinash K. Dixit

Dissections: Plane and Fancy

by Greg N. Frederickson

Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics (Mathematical World, Vol. 5) (Mathematical World)

by David W. Farmer

Knots and Surfaces: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics (Mathematical World, Vol. 6) (Mathematical World)

by David W. Farmer

Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind

Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel

by John W. Dawson

Prolog: The Standard: Reference Manual

by Pierre Deransart, AbdelAli Ed-Dbali, Laurent Cervoni

Prolog by Example: How to Learn, Teach and Use It (Symbolic Computation-Artificial Intelligences)

by Helder Coelho

Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence

by Ivan Bratko

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

by George Lakoff

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Ian Stewart, Herbert Robbins, Richard Courant

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i [the square root of minus one]

by Paul J. Nahin

Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci

by Bu?lent Atalay

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen W. Hawking

On the Shoulders of Giants

by Stephen Hawking

The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene

Principles of Quantum Mechanics

by Ramamurti Shankar

Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements (Series of Books in Physics)

by John R. Taylor

by Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands, Richard P. Feynman

Linear Algebra and Its Applications

by David C. Lay

Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles

by David Lovelock

Fundamentals of Physics Extended Fifth Edition and Study Guide to Accompany Fundamentals of Physics, Fifth Edition and A Student's Pocket Companion to Accompany Fundamentals of Physics, Fifth Edition

by Jearl Walker, David Halliday, Robert Resnick

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

by Albert Einstein, Nigel Calder, Robert W. Lawson

Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition)

by Goldstein, Herbert, Herbert Goldstein

The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)

by Roger Penrose

The Book of Numbers

by John Horton Conway

The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge

by William Poundstone

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

by Roger Penrose

Prisoner's Dilemma

by William Poundstone

Does God Play Dice?

by Ian Stewart

Chaos

by James Gleick

Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

by Mark Ronan

The Second Creation

by Robert P. Crease

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

by Dennis Overbye

The Best American Science Writing 2002 (Best American Science Writing)

by Matt Ridley, Alan Lightman

Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability

by Michael Kaplan

Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

by Sean B. Carroll

Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

by Nina V. Fedoroff

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould

The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox

by Stephen Jay Gould

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

by Brian Greene

Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

by Francis Crick

The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature

by Peter Forbes

Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life

by Dr. Joe Schwarcz

The Scientific American Book of the Brain (Scientific American)

by Antonio R. Damasio

The Best American Science Writing 2003

by Oliver Sacks

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

by John Allen Paulos

In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution

by Andrew Parker

Seven Deadly Colours

by Andrew Parker

What Scientists Think

by Jeremy Stangroom

Longitude

by Dava Sobel

Fermat's Last Theorem

by Simon Singh

The Genie in the Bottle: The Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life

by Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Speed System of Basic Mathematics

by Ann Cutler

101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either

by James S. Trefil

The Tao of Physics/Audio Cassettes

by Fritjof Capra

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

by P. Bak

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

by John Brockman

Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution

by John Brockman

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))

The Faber Book of Science

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 (The Best American Series)

by David Quammen, Burkhard Bilger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 (The Best American (TM))

God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

by Amir D. Aczel

Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya

by Dick Teresi

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

by Robin J. Wilson

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Vintage)

by Edward O. Wilson

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001

by Edward O Wilson

Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20Th-Century Mathematics-And Why They Matter

by J. L. Casti

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

by Mario Livio

The Golden Ratio

by Mario Livio

Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics

by J. L. Casti

Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

by Dr. John Haigh

The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe

by John D. Barrow

Pale Blue Dot

by Carl Sagan

Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

by William Dunham

The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene

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