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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
How to Solve It by G. Polya
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
An introduction to heuristics, the study of the methods and rules of discovery, invention and human problem-solving. First published in 1945, it provides a modern contribution to a subject that has had a considerable revival and is emphasized in GCSE mathematics and science.
Ice by Anna Kavan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, ...Show more
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie for the affection of a dangerous woman...Of ...Show more
NEW SCIENCE OF STRONG MATERIALS by GORDON JAMES EDWARD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as ...Show more
One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though. Yet, home alone in his Leningrad apartment, his work is beginning to be stymied. Strange and improbable distractions are mounting around him - and he is not alone. Across the city, his scientific ...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 Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Is BER-64 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself... Considered to be one of the most important and ...Show more
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
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses t ...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
Structures:or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.