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• Engineering
  Statistics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Optics
  Mathematics
  Origin of Life
   
  

  First Course in Probability, A (7th Edition)

  This introduction presents the mathematical theory of probability for readers in the fields of engineering and the sciences who possess knowledge of elementary calculus. Presents new examples and ...  > read more
• Psychiatry
  Internet
  Communications
  Privacy Issues
  Scientific Conduct
  Behavior
   
  

  Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry

  The best-selling general psychiatry text since 1972, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is now in its thoroughly updated Tenth Edition. This complete, concise overview of the entire field of ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Physics
  Albert Einstein
  Quantum Physics
  Virtual Environment
  Big Bang
   
  

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

  As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate ...  > read more
• Computer Programming
  Communications
  Internet
  Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Relationships
   
  

  Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

  How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but ...  > read more
• Educational Psychology
  Educational Policy
  Physics
  Teen Health
  Internet
  Quantum Physics
   
  

  Physics

  Improving the Game When it comes to teaching and learning physics, most pedagogical innovations were pioneered in Cutnell and Johnson's Physics--the number one algebra-based physics text for ...  > read more
• Educational Policy
  Anthropology
  Children's Health
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Cultures
   
  

  Development Through the Lifespan (4th Edition) (MyDevelopmentLab Series)

  A best-selling text unparalleled in its approach to teaching human development, Berk’s Development Through the Lifespan is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, ...  > read more
• Privacy Issues
  Consumer Behavior
  Information Technology
  Encryption
  Photography
  Epilepsy
   
  

  Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

  Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives ...  > read more
• Consumer Behavior
  World Development
  Monkeys
  Resource Shortage
  Economics
  Geography
   
  

  The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

  In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom ...  > read more
• Racial Disparity
  Geography
  Spiders and Ticks
  Mating and Breeding
  Environmental Policy
  Insects (including Butterflies)
   
  

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide)

  There are about 100,000 kinds of insects in North America, so obviously they can't have a field guide in the same way the 650 species of birds do: something both portable and complete. The National ...  > read more
• Environmental Issues
  Physics
  Environmental Policies
  Earth Science
  Biology
  Engineering
   
  

  Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature

  For more than 30 years, Ira Flatow has interviewed Nobel winners and experts like E.O Wilson and Carl Sagan on NPR. In this book, he gives us the best of what he's learned from those conversations, ...  > read more

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