Science & Technology

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

In ?Bonk, ?the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas?

Chip War by Chris Miller

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War is “an essential and engrossing landmark study

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason

Essential Linux Commands by Paul Olushile

Unlock the power of Linux with this quick-start guide to leveling up your admin skills, packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.  

HOW TO DO NOTHING

Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

Learn to design, build, and scale products consumers can’t get enough of

In the Plex by Steven Levy

Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A.Corey

Leviathan Wakes" blends elements of space opera, mystery, and political intrigue, with complex characters and a gripping plot.

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home?

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.  

Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, deep hypotheticals and wind entire universes around them, pushing science, technology, time and logic to breaking point and far beyond.