3D Printing For Dummies

Kalani Kirk Hausman and Richard Horne

This accessible guide covers everything from how 3D printing works to the transformative impact it could have on our lives.

The Improbability Principle

David Hand

Examining coincidence, probability and randomness, Hands argues that the "improbability principle" underpins much of how the world works.

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

How technology brings with it wrenching societal change.

Mindwise

Nicholas Epley

Humans are able to detect extraordinarily precise clues about each others' emotions. Epley lays bare our mind-reading abilities, and what happens when they fail us.

The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku

In a broad and ranging book, acclaimed science writer Kaku looks at intelligence from AI and super-powered brains to alien intelligence.

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

P.W Singer and Allan Friedman

As nations hack and counter-hack, Singer and Friedman survey the landscape of cyberwar in the 21st century.

A Natural History of Human Thinking

Michael Tomasello

Just what differentiates humans from other primates? What explains our species's runaway success? The key is being social and collaborative.

The Age of Ecology

Joachim Radkau

In this history of the global environmentalist movement, Radkau teases out the individual stories that together comprise what he calls an "age of ecology".

The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time

Heinrich Päs

A history of the neutrino, nature's near-weightless and mysterious particle that could hold the key to the universe's most difficult questions.

Cracking the Quantum Code of the Universe

John Moffat

Moffat explores theories of particle physics and questions the usefulness of the Large Hadron Collider.