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Head First Design Patterns (Head First)
You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat ... > read more -
What to Eat
How do we choose what to eat? Buffeted by health claims--should we, for example, restrict our intake of carbs or fats or both? Is organic food better for us?--we become confused and tune out. In ... > read more -
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining ... > read more -
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. ... > read more -
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
IDEO, the world's leading design firm, is the brain trust that's behind some of the more brilliant innovations of the past 20 years--from the Apple mouse, the Polaroid i-Zone instant camera, and ... > read more -
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do ... > read more -
Microbiology: An Introduction (9th Edition)
With this Ninth Edition, the “Number One†best-selling non-majors microbiology text extends its trusted and reliable approach with improved disease chapters ... > read more -
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales."To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, ... > read more -
The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
In The Story of Sushi journalist Trevor Corson provides a lively tour of the culture of sushi in America––from the chefs who prepare sushi to the multifarious creatures that compose it. ... > read more -
Rocket Boys
Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that ... > read more
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