Leonardo's Universe
The Renaissance World of Leonardo DaVinci
Written by Bulent Atalay and Keith Wamsley

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0285-8 (1-4262-0285-7)

A veritable rock star in the book world some five centuries after his birth, Leonardo Da Vinci is a man for the ages. Millions of readers hungrily ponder the mysteries behind his sketch-filled notebooks, radical inventions, and enigmatic paintings. This stunning book, like no other on the market, explores the master’s... Read more >

The New Cool
A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
Written by Neal Bascomb

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-58890-6 (0-307-58890-4)

That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing. A physics... Read more >

The New Cool
A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
Written by Neal Bascomb

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-58889-0 (0-307-58889-0)

THE NEW COOL is the astonishing and inspiring story of a team of high school seniors and their mentor, who come together–not to play a sport or exercise their athletic prowess–but rather to build a machine that will compete in the most heated, sophisticated robotics competition in the world. The FIRST... Read more >

CodeNotes for J2EE
EJB, JDBC, JSP, and Servlets
Written by Gregory Brill

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9190-1 (0-8129-9190-7)


CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately... Read more >

Flesh and Machines
How Robots Will Change Us
Written by Rodney Brooks

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72527-2 (0-375-72527-X)

Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believes we are. In this lucid and accessible book, Brooks vividly depicts the history of robots and explores the ever-changing relationships between humans and their technological brethren, speculating on the growing role that robots will play in our existence. Knowing the... Read more >

The Most Human Human
What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
Written by Brian Christian

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47670-8 (0-307-47670-7)

Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing... Read more >

The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53306-5 (0-385-53306-3)

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for... Read more >

El salto
Aprovecha las nuevas tecnologias y alcanza tu potencial
Written by Ariel Coro

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94741-3 (0-307-94741-6)

Puedes tratar de ignorarla pero es inevitable. La tecnología está transformando tu vida y el mundo que te rodea a una velocidad prácticamente incomprensible. Las reglas del juego han cambiado: desde como buscar un trabajo, educarte, promover o financiar tu negocio y hasta proteger a tu familia. Para ser exitosos, es... Read more >

Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7599-7 (1-4000-7599-8)

In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world.

In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men... Read more >

Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42277-5 (0-375-42277-3)

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New... Read more >

The Information
A History, A Theory, A Flood
Written by James Gleick

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9623-7 (1-4000-9623-5)

A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.

Acclaimed science writer James Gleick... Read more >

The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
Written by James Gleick

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42372-7 (0-375-42372-9)

The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talk­ing drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very... Read more >

The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Written by Joy Hakim

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-162-4 (1-58834-162-3)

Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension brings us to the recent past and the groundbreaking discoveries made in it: the quantum world, the theory of relativity, and nuclear physics. These discoveries created our modern world, from solar-powered calculators to cell phones to global positioning systems and... Read more >

The Hacker Ethic
A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds
Epilogue by Manuel Castells

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75878-2 (0-375-75878-X)

Nearly a century ago, Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism articulated the animating spirit of the industrial age, the Protestant ethic. Now, Pekka Hinamen — together with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells — articulates how hackers* represent a new, opposing ethos for the information age. Underlying hackers’... Read more >

A Shortcut Through Time
The Path to the Quantum Computer
Written by George Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72618-7 (0-375-72618-7)

In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable... Read more >

Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53080-4 (0-385-53080-3)

The New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible gives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future.

Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku—in a lucid and engaging fashion—presents the revolutionary developments... Read more >

Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 15, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48499-2 (0-385-48499-2)

Now in Paperback. A Library Journal Best Scientific & Technical Book.

In Visions, Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have reshaped the 20th century-quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence-and shows how they will change science and society in the 21st century.  In Section I, Kaku explores the evolution and development... Read more >

Geeks
How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Written by Jon Katz

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 20, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0699-9 (0-7679-0699-3)

The sociological study and inspirational story of how two social misfits and self-professed “geeks” used their technological prowess to escape dead-end life in a dreary Idaho town. Geeks is a provocative look inside a rapidly growing subculture of “techno-outsiders,” many of whom are now running the systems that run the world.

"A... Read more >

You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
Written by Jaron Lanier

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38997-8 (0-307-38997-9)

A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of... Read more >

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Written by Janna Levin

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3240-2 (1-4000-3240-7)

Winner of 2007 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Finalist
Winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work


Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII... Read more >

Artificial Life
A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
Written by Steven Levy

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74389-7 (0-679-74389-8)

This enthralling book alerts us to the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come... Read more >

Programming the Universe
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Written by Seth Lloyd

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3386-7 (1-4000-3386-1)

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes.

All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? “Its own dynamical evolution,”... Read more >

Early Home Computers

Written by Kevin Murrell

Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1216-6 (0-7478-1216-0)

This is the story of the people and machines that revolutionized the world and made personal computers an integral part of every home. For the typical family in the 1960s and 1970s, computers were both fascinating and frightening, but largely a mystery. Developments in microelectronics in the early 1970s meant that... Read more >

Being Digital

Written by Nicholas Negroponte

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76290-4 (0-679-76290-6)

Being Digital is both a guide to the present state of our rapidly changing digital age and a map for the future--how our lives will be shaped and enhanced by computer-related technology.  Negroponte--Wired Magazine columnist and founding director of the MIT Media Lab--describes how advancements in computer technology and telecommunications will transform... Read more >

Fatal Defect
Chasing Killer Computer Bugs
Written by Ivars Peterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74027-8 (0-679-74027-9)

From crashing computers to airplane crashes that claim scores of lives, the computer virus has become a growing plague of late twentieth-century life. This arresting and at times terrifying book tells us just how prevalent these software errors and defects are and how they are multiplying as more sophisticated computers become... Read more >