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HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All-In-One for Dummies by Paul McFedries

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, …

Quantum Field Theory, As Simply As Possible by Anthony Zee

Effect by Nick Huntington-Klein

Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us …

Mel Bay Concise History of the Classic Guitar by Graham Wade

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such …

Introduction to Operations Research and Revised CD-ROM 8 by Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman

In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall

End Times by Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay …

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal …

The Code Book by Simon Singh

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published …

The Emperors of Chocolate by Joël Glenn Brenner

Corporate candy giants Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars built business empires out of one of the world's most magical, sought-after …

Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou