Space Probe Books

• Mathematics
  Artificial Intelligence
  Math Puzzles
  Intelligence
  Albert Einstein
  Mathematical Modeling
   
  

  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
• Forest
  Trees
  Botany
  Wildfires
  Fish
  Earth Science
   
  

  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
• Educational Policy
  Educational Psychology
  Multiple Sclerosis
  Multiple Sclerosis Research
  Construction
  Materials Science
   
  

  Understanding By Design

  What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students ...  > read more
• Computer Programming
  Software
  Computer Science
  Internet
  Distributed Computing
  Information Technology
   
  

  Computer Organization and Design, Revised Printing, Third Edition, Third Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer ... Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

  Whats New in the Third Edition, Revised Printing The same great book gets better! This revised printing features all of the original content along with these additional features: Appendix A ...  > read more
• Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
  World Development
  Statistics
  Environmental Policies
  Nature
   
  

  The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

  Bjørn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. ...  > read more
• Thyroid Disease
  Hormone Disorders
  Diseases and Conditions
  Depression
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
   
  

  Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know (Revised Edition)

  As many as one in eight women have a thyroid condition. In Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Mary Shomon outlines the most common of these--too little thyroid hormones in the body. Weight gain, ...  > read more
• Biology
  Earth Science
  Workplace Health
  Climate
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
   
  

  The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

  With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a “guided twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws on ...  > read more
• Software
  Video Games
  Computer Programming
  Child Development
  Internet
  Behavioral Science
   
  

  Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

  An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson ...  > read more
• Physics
  Black Holes
  Cosmology
  Quantum Physics
  Albert Einstein
  Space Station
   
  

  A Briefer History of Time

  Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects ...  > read more
• Intelligence
  Artificial Intelligence
  Psychology
  Neuroscience
  Computer Science
  Distributed Computing
   
  

  On Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, the high-tech success story behind PalmPilots and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, does a lot of thinking about thinking. In On Intelligence Hawkins juxtaposes his two ...  > read more

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