
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Bestselling author Nassim
Nicholas Taleb continues his
exploration of randomness in
his fascinating new book,
The Black Swan, in which he
examines the influence of
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The World Without Us
A penetrating, page-turning
tour of a post-human Earth
In The World Without Us,
Alan Weisman offers an
utterly original approach to
questions of
humanity’s impact on
the planet: he asks us to
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Explaining what William
McNeill called The Rise of
the West has become the
central problem in the study
of global history. In Guns,
Germs, and Steel Jared
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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
The Internet has profoundly
changed the way people
communicate and interact
with each other. But it has
also changed the way
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson ... > read more -
The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet ... > read more -
Your Portable Empire: How to Make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love
Praise for Your Portable Empire "In a sea of snake oil and get-rich-quick nonsense about fast money on the Internet from people who haven't really done it, O'Bryan's book is a ship of sanity to an ... > read more -
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
An April 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Funny, engaging, and oh-so-practical, Send is the ultimate etiquette handbook for email, making David Shipley and Will Schwalbe the "Miss Manners" resource ... > read more -
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. Can thought arise out of ... > read more -
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist in the witty British style: I want to ... > read more -
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully ... > read more -
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine ... > read more -
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
The essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from itThis book explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental ... > read more -
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling Blink Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm ... > read more
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