Science & Engineering

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data....

Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....

Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself....

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible....

The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Find out....

Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You’ll explore software architecture in a modern light....

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer....

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs them both." These are the words of Fritjof Capra...

How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....

Time rules our lives, woven into the very fabric of the universe. Nothing so pervades our existence and yet is so difficult to explain....

Understanding our humanity - the essence of who we are - is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science....

The author of the best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections....

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

From an award-winning Fortune reporter, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals the life-threatening dangers posed by globalization - The Jungle for pharmaceuticals....

How do two languages coexist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual, and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few....

Clean Architecture is an essential book for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager - and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs....

Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap....

Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....

Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs....

Marie Benedict widmet sich einer weiteren klugen Frau, die die Weltgeschichte entscheidend geprägt hat und deren Namen wir dennoch nicht kennen. Rosalind Franklin fand nach jahrelanger Forschung die Doppelhelixstruktur unserer DNA, doch für diesen Coup geehrt wurden fälschlicherweise drei Männer... Rosalind Franklin war schon immer eine Außenseiterin - brillant, aber anders. Sie fühlt sich der Wissenschaft am nächsten, den unveränderlichen Gesetzen der Physik und Chemie, die ihre Experimente leiten. Sie wird beauftragt, das Geheimnis unserer DNA zu entschlüsseln.

Dreams are a source of mystery. They have changed the course of individual lives and the world, spurring business deals, inspiring art and scientific breakthroughs, triggering military invasions and mental breakdowns. Yet the source of dreams is not mysterious. They are the product of normal brain electrophysiology and they follow the circadian rhythms, the day-night cycles that govern all life. Dr Rahul Jandial delves into decades of research into the dreaming brain and shares stories from his own practice to show the extraordinary impact that dreams have on our waking life.

2009 hat es Claudia de Rham in die Endauswahl der ESA geschafft. Sie ist kurz davor, dem Geheimnis der Gravitation als Astronautin auf die Spur zu kommen. Dann wird sie positiv auf latente Tuberkulose getestet. Ihr Traum platzt. Seitdem hat sich de Rham in der Astrophysik einen Namen gemacht, ist sie zu einer der renommiertesten Kosmolog:innen aufgestiegen. Ihre Arbeit fordert die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie heraus.

In Barefoot Biodynamics, organic grower Jeff Poppen—“The Barefoot Farmer”—combines tales from his personal history in rural Tennessee with the practical applications of biodynamic principles and the deep aspects of the biodynamic methods that continue to make his farm a success today.

In this joyous journey around the wild edges of Britain, Christopher Hart takes us through the life, ecology and history of the humble British hedge, showing us how this much-loved (but somewhat overlooked) feature is inextricably woven into our language, history and culture. Hedges – or hedgerows – have long been an integral part of the British landscape; a bastion of privacy for our gardens, a protective presence on winding country lanes and a vital hiding place for birds and beasts on farmland.

Wie hört sich der Weltraum an? Erleben Sie eine Nachtschicht in der Raumstation - hören Sie, wie die Maschinen bei ihren Berechnungen summen, das Radar pingt und die Atmosphäre völlig ungestört ist.

Ziehen Sie Ihre Schwimmflossen an und setzen Ihre Sauerstoffmaske auf, tauchen Sie ins Meer und lassen Sie sich in einem ruhigen Tempo unter Wasser treiben. Verspielte Delfine machen klickende Geräusche, wenn sie vorbeischwimmen, und deine Maske erzeugt winzige, metallisch klingende Blasen, die zur Oberfläche aufsteigen. Vielleicht hören Sie sogar ein paar Walgesänge von den sanften Giganten des Ozeans.

Willkommen im Hafen, wo die Fischerboote das Ufer verlassen, um ihren täglichen Fang einzuholen. Nehmen Sie Platz und genießen Sie die Geräusche der arbeitenden Fischer, den Ruf der Möwen und das Plätschern des Wassers am Kai.

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie liegen an einem Strand in den Tropen. Die Wellen plätschern sanft über den feinen weißen Sand. Im Hintergrund zwitschern exotische Vögel, und Sie spüren die Wärme der Sonnenstrahlen auf Ihrer Haut. Sie schlagen ein Buch auf, um zu lesen, und bekommen ein kühles Getränk serviert, bei dem die Eiswürfel genüsslich gegen das Glas klirren. Ab und zu dringt Musik von der Strandbar herüber und die Zikaden summen in den Palmen.

Die Wellen umspülen Ihre nackten Füße, während Sie auf Ihrem Spaziergang am Meer entlang schlendern. Das Rauschen des Windes kitzelt in den Ohren, während Möwen und andere Wattvögel zwitschern und singen und ab und zu ein Fischerboot weiter draußen auf dem Meer vorbeifährt.

As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a uniquely specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search. With infectious enthusiasm, she takes us on an eye-opening journey to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview.

In this book, we go over the details of how NASA and hopefully Spacex and Blue Origins can get together and create a mission to create a 2nd sun in the sky. Imagine how other civilizations all around the universe who are able to look up into the sky around their planets with telescopes and instruments as powerful as ours and they notice a completely new star blazing into the night sky. They might even be able to conclude that this star had to have been created by an intelligent life form, a life form that may have achieved something no other life form had ever done before.

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective.

An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.