Applied Sciences category: 551 books
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
*Wall Street Journal bestseller
*Next Big Idea Club selection—chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season"
*Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019"
*Inc.com's "10...
The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...
Engine Airflow HP1537
A Practical Guide to Airflow Theory, Parts Testing, Flow Bench Testing and Analy zing Data to Increase Performance for Any Street or Racing Engine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This informative, fully illustrated handbook includes basic discussion on the science of engine airflow and relationships, how flowbenches work, testing individual engine components, how to analyze the data, calibration issues, intake and exhaust tuning, engine formulas, and putting it all together for maximum performance.
Soonish
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
**The instant New York Times bestseller!
A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!
A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year!
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation...
Is That a Fact?
Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science
Eat this and live to 100. Don’t, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what’s best for the environment....
by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering...
Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku...
by Brian Clegg, Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around the concept of bite-sized science. This new series of books will tackle the biggest topics in science by breaking them up into quick and easy...
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton
A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered...
Abundance
The Future Is Better Than You Think
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it.
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive...
by Nikola Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.
Out of this World
Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the Big Bang, parallel universes, and an imaginary trip to the other side of the black hole.
Our Own Devices
How Technology Remakes Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher of everyday technology.” Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce...
The Why Files
The Science Behind the News
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Science magazine meets The Onion, Mental Floss, and Mad magazine in this ingenious guide to the science behind the news
For more than a decade , the intrepid folks at whyfiles.org-the #1 science destination on the web-have been exploring the science behind newsworthy events. Now condensed into...