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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by
Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Call Number: BF39 .C4885 2016
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
by
Adam Gazzaley & Larry D. Rosen
Call Number: BF323.D5 G39 2016
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by
David Epstein
Call Number: BF378.E94 E67 2019
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
by
David Robson
Call Number: BF431 .R54 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by
Daniel Kahneman
Call Number: BF441 .K238 2011
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
by
Daniel H. Pink
Call Number: BF468 .P57 2018
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Call Number: BF575.P9 E34 2019
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
by
Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
Call Number: BF697.5.S426 S56 2018
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by
Merve Emre
Call Number: BF698.8.M94 E56 2018
Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land
by
James McClintock
Call Number: G860 .M39133 2012
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by
David Wallace-Wells
Call Number: GF75 .W36 2019
The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
by
W. Thomas Boyce
Call Number: HQ755.8 .B694 2019
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by
Andy Greenberg
Call Number: HV6773.R8 G74 2019
Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action
by
Marybeth Gasman & Nguyen Thai-Huy
Call Number: Q149.U5 G37 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by
Stephen Hawking
Call Number: Q173 .H388 2018
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by
Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie
Call Number: Q175.32.C38 P43 2018
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by
Michio Kaku
Call Number: Q175.5 .K257 2011
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
How We Teach Science: What's Changed, and Why It Matters
by
John L. Rudolph
Call Number: Q183.3.A1 R828 2019 | Electronic Book
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by
Stuart Russell
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q334.7 .R87 2019]
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by
Amy Webb
Call Number: Q334.7 .W43 2019
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by
John Brockman
Call Number: Q335 .D436 2019
A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
by
Kartik Hosanagar
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q335.H675 2019]
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
by
Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
Call Number: Q335 .M368 2019 | Electronic Book
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
by
Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
by
Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA28 .S74 2017
Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
by
Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, & Adrian Rice
Call Number: QA29.L72 H65 2018
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by
Claire L. Evans
Call Number: QA76.2.A2 E93 2018
Steve Jobs
by
Walter Isaacson
Call Number: QA76.2.J63 I722 2011
How Smart Machines Think
by
Sean Gerrish
Call Number: Electronic Book [QA76.87.G49 2018]
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increcases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by
Cathy O'Neil
Call Number: QA76.9.B45 O64 2016 | Electronic Book
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by
Meredith Broussard
Call Number: Electronic Book [QA76.9.C66 B787 2018]
Euler's Pioneering Equation: The Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics
by
Robin Wilson
Call Number: Electronic Book [QA241 .W55 2018]
A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
by
David Stipp
Call Number: QA255 .S75 2017
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
by
Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA273 .S74 2019
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data
by
David Spiegelhalter
Call Number: QA276.12 .S665 2019
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas
by
David M. Bressoud
Call Number: QA303.2 .B74 2019 | Electronic Book
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by
Steven Strogatz
Call Number: QA303.2 .S78 2019
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
by
Michio Kaku
Call Number: QB461 .K343 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call Number: QB461 .T97 2017
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
by
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call Number: QB982 .T974 2016 | Electronic Book
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
by
Graham Farmelo
Call Number: QC6 .F3375 2019
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by
Brian Greene
Call Number: QC6 .G6885 2011
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
by
David N. Schwartz
Call Number: QC16.F46 S39 2017
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by
Sabine Hossenfelder
Call Number: QC20.6 .H67 2018
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by
Carlo Rovelli
Call Number: QC24.5 .R68313 2016
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by
Mark Miodownik
Call Number: QC145.2 .M565 2019
The Order of Time
by
Carlo Rovelli
Call Number: QC173.59.S65 R6813 2018
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
by
Adam Becker
Call Number: QC173.98 .B43 2018
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
by
Sean Carroll
Call Number: QC174.12 .C365 2019
Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World
by
John Gribbin
Call Number: QC174.12 .G748 2019
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
by
Paul Halpern
Call Number: QC174.12 .H347 2017
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different
by
Philip Ball
Call Number: QC174.123 .B36 2018
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
by
Lee Smolin
Call Number: QC174.13 .S6545 2019
Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter
by
Joseph D. Martin
Call Number: QC176 .M278 2018
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by
Paul Steinhardt
Call Number: QC176 .S76 2019
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
by
Carlo Rovelli
Call Number: QC178 .R69313 2017
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
by
Sean Carroll
Call Number: QC793.5.B62 C37 2012
Royal Society Science Book Prize
The Grand Design
by
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
Call Number: QC794.6.G7 H385 2010
Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present
by
Benjamin Lieberman & Elizabeth Gordon
Call Number: QC903 .L54 2018
Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
by
Paul Strathern
Call Number: QD22.M43 S87 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: QE721.2.E97 K65 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
by
William Souder
Call Number: QH31.C33 S68 2012
Lab Girl
by
Hope Jahren
Call Number: QH31.J344 A3 2016
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by
Nick Lane
Call Number: QH325 .L36 2015
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by
David Quammen
Call Number: QH367.5 .Q36 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by
David Reich
Call Number: QH431 .R37 2018
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by
Carl Zimmer
Call Number: QH431 .Z53 2018
DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
by
James D. Watson
Call Number: QH437 .W387 2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by
Jennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. Sternberg
Call Number: Electronic Book [QH440 .D68 2017]
Lamarck's Revenge: How Epigenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
by
Peter Ward
Call Number: QH450 .W37 2018
Being Ecological
by
Timothy Morton
Call Number: QH541.13 .M67 2018
Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
by
Drew Harvell
Call Number: QH541.5.S3 H37 2019
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
by
Ruth Kassinger
Call Number: QK566 .K37 2019
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction, and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
by
M. R. O'Connor
Call Number: QL82 .O26 2015
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
by
Stephen Nicol
Call Number: QL444.M338 N53 2018
Extraordinary Insects: The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World
by
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Call Number: Electronic Book [QL463.S82 2019]
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by
Timothy C. Winegard
Call Number: QL536 .W56 2019
First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery
by
Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr
Call Number: QL537.D76 M65 2018
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
by
Nick Haddad
Call Number: QL562.6 .H33 2019
On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
by
Elizabeth Hennessy
Call Number: Electronic Book [QL666.C584 H46 2019]
The Genius of Birds
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: Electronic Book [QL698.3 .A285 2016]
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
by
Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: QL751 .W55 2019
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World and Us
by
Richard O. Prum
Call Number: QL761 .P744 2017
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
by
Michael J. Ryan
Call Number: QL761 .R93 2018
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
by
Frans de Waal
Call Number: QL785.27 .W33 2019
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by
Bill Bryson
Call Number: QM23.2 .B79 2019
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Call Number: QM451 .G58 2016
Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age
by
Sue Armstrong
Call Number: QP86 .A76 2019
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food
by
Rachel Hertz
Call Number: QP136 .H47 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Call Number: QP351 .S27 2017
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
by
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Call Number: QP376 .G386 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by
Matthew Walker
Call Number: QP425 .W44 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by
Ed Yong
Call Number: QR171.A1 Y66 2016
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are
by
Philip Ball
Call Number: Electronic Book [R857.T55 B35 2019]
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by
Bessel van der Kolk
Call Number: Electronic Book [RC552.P67 V358 2014]
How Charts Lie Getting Smarter About Visual Information
by
Alberto Cairo
Call Number: T385 .C3388 2019
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by
Simon Winchester
Call Number: TA19 .W56 2018
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by
Mark Miodownik
Call Number: TA403.2 .M56 2014
Royal Society Science Book Prize
Edison
by
Edmund Morris
Call Number: TK140.E3 M685 2019
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