Space Probe Books

• Computer Programming
  Distributed Computing
  Language Acquisition
  Computer Science
  Construction
  Early Climate
   
  

  Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

  Erlang solves one of the most pressing problems facing developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent, high-performance systems. It's used worldwide by companies who need to produce reliable, ...  > read more
• Information Technology
  Encryption
  Hacking
  Asthma
  Epilepsy Research
  Space Station
   
  

  Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

  With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts ...  > read more
• Nutrition Research
  Nutrition
  Healthy Aging
  Dietary Supplement
  Food
  Alternative Medicine
   
  

  NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements

  The NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements is your roadmap to understanding the remarkable protective powers of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Packed with the latest findings ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Nature
  Cosmology
  Gender Difference
  Sea Life
  Marine Biology
   
  

  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
• Child Psychology
  Mining
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Child Development
  Earth Science
   
  

  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
• Mathematics
  Math Puzzles
  Mathematical Modeling
  Computer Modeling
  Popular Culture
  Computational Biology
   
  

  The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking

  The Heart of Mathematics addresses the big ideas of mathematics (many of which are cutting edge research topics) in a non-computational style intended to be both read and enjoyed by students and ...  > read more
• Healthy Aging
  Evolution
  Chronic Illness
  Diseases and Conditions
  Nature
  Evolutionary Biology
   
  

  Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

  Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ...  > read more
• Lung Cancer
  Diseases and Conditions
  Public Health
  Cancer
  Ovarian Cancer
  Skin Cancer
   
  

  Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do: Revised and Updated Edition

  This definitive guide, revised and updated with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease. Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this ...  > 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

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