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Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This text leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, via biographical stories, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to contemporary notions of hyperspace. It reveals simple questions that have been the hidden engines of major achievements in science and technology.
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, ...Show more
Robot by Rodney Allen Brooks
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. After the World Wide Web, where will technology take us next? This text speaks to those who think about humanity's relationship to technology, discussing what will happen when intelligent robots become too smart.
Six Easy Pieces: TheFundamentals of Physics Explained by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, "Six Easy Pieces" reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the ge ...Show more
Some Time with Feynman by Leonard Mlodinow
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
Some Time With Feynman is the memoir of a young man trying to find his place in life, and an inspirational portrait of the remarkable person whose wisdom helped him along the way. Who had the greatest influence on your life? Was it a parent, a teacher, a friend? For Leonard Mlodinow it was his colleg ...Show more
Stardust by John Gribbin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Life begins with the process of star formation. Except for hydrogen, every single atom of every single element in our bodies has been manufactured inside stars and then scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions known as supernovas, only then to be recycled as part of us. The hydrogen is ...Show more
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why do crickets harmonize together in choruses on a summer night? What makes the moon spin precisely in sync with its orbit? Why do audiences clap simultaneously? What made the Millennium Bridge wobble? The answer in sync. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far-reaching drives in the univers ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
A series of classic lectures, delivered in 1960 and recorded for the BBC. This is Feynman's unique take on the problems and puzzles that lie at the heart of physical theory - with Newton's Law of Gravitation; on whether time can ever go backwards; on maths as the supreme language of nature. This collect ...Show more
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to ...Show more