Distributed Computing Books

• Caving
  Archaeology
  Extreme Survival
  Ancient Civilizations
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

  The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Nature
  World Development
  Fossils
  Monkeys
   
  

  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

  A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history.Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally ...  > read more
• Geography
  Popular Culture
  Perception
  Internet
  Computer Programming
  Communications
   
  

  Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

  “The core technologies of Ajax are quite straightforward; the hard part is applying them in the real world. Fortunately, the authors have been putting Ajax into practice since long ...  > read more
• Behavioral Science
  Behavior
  Human Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Social Psychology
   
  

  Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach

  This new edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten, resulting in a more compact yet thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of four-color photographs ...  > read more
• Astrophysics
  Astronomy
  Cosmology
  Big Bang
  Nebulae
  Communications
   
  

  Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe

  In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Fish
  Anthropology
  Oceanography
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

  What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found—until now. ...  > read more
• Acoustics
  Perception
  Popular Culture
  Nature
  Language Acquisition
  Intelligence
   
  

  This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

  In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Fossils
  Earth Science
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Ice Ages
   
  

  The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets

  A gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Extinction
  Paleontology
  Earth Science
  Nature
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
   
  

  Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere

  For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth - until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of dinosaurs? A renowned scientist now provides a ...  > read more
• Mars
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the ...  > read more

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