Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especiall…
Shelve My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) (Dover Math Games & Puzzles)
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from …
Shelve The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method o…
Shelve How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique result…
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, tra…
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator…
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So …
A series of logic problems and puzzles relating important mathematical and logical concepts, includes paradoxes, metapuzzles, number exercises, and a mathematical novel
Shelve The Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles
Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empi…
G.H. Cambridge University FIRST First Edition Thus, 4th Printing (2000). Not price-clipped. Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with light shelf wear. …
The definitive work concerning Warren Buffett and intelligent investment philosophy, this is a collection of Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway written over the past few decad…
Shelve The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels ou…
Shelve The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Hone your senses and learn to read the hidden signs of nature—from master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley, New York Times -bestselling author of How to Read a Tree and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Si…
Shelve How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed (Natural Navigation)
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew u…
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about pract…
Shelve Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the…
Shelve The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
