Science & Society Books

• Sustainability
  Communications
  Markets and Finance
  Internet
  Social Psychology
  Software
   
  

  Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

  In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. ...  > read more
• Staying Healthy
  Rodents
  Beer and Wine
  Social Psychology
  Parenting
  Racial Disparity
   
  

  The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

  An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built—and then spectacularly lost—a global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of ...  > read more
• Educational Psychology
  Educational Policy
  Human Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Teen Health
  Children's Health
   
  

  Biology

  Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY remains unsurpassed as the most successful majors biology textbook in the world. This text has invited more than 4 million students into the study of this ...  > read more
• Consumer Behavior
  Mathematical Modeling
  Economics
  Markets and Finance
  Intelligence
  Consumerism
   
  

  The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

  "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass ...  > read more
• Alzheimer's Research
  Alzheimer's
  Engineering
  Educational Policy
  Biology
  Atmosphere
   
  

  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
• Computer Programming
  Internet
  Computers and Internet
  Educational Policy
  Consumer Behavior
  Organic Chemistry
   
  

  Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

  The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create ...  > read more
• Urbanization
  Nature
  Fossils
  Computer Science
  Anthropology
  Disaster Plan
   
  

  The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

  The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic ...  > 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
• Internet
  Computer Programming
  Consumer Behavior
  Computers and Internet
  Ecology
  Computer Modeling
   
  

  Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

  Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in-the-trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insider’s perspective of the challenges and opportunities that web ...  > read more
• Children's Health
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
  Parenting
  Educational Psychology
  Infant's Health
   
  

  Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

  In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired ...  > read more

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