Science
Your Brain: The Missing Manual
By Matthew MacDonald
May 2008
$24.99 USD
Your Brain: The Missing Manual is a practical look at how to get the most out of your brain -- not just how the brain works, but how you can… Read more.
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
By Robert Bruce Thompson
April 2008
$29.99 USD
For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with… Read more.
Visualizing Data
By Ben Fry
December 2007
$39.99 USD
How you can take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of a downloadable programming environment, this book helps you represent data accurately on the… Read more.
Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
By Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
October 2007
$29.99 USD
Amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone, and this is the ideal book to get you started. The Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders offers you a guide to… Read more.
Mind Performance Hacks
By Ron Hale-Evans
February 2006
$24.99 USD
Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires… Read more.
Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook
By David M. Bourg
January 2006
$44.99 USD
This quick, look-up reference is perfect for anyone in the science and engineering community who wants to improve upon their Excel skills. You'll learn how to leverage Excel to perform… Read more.
Astronomy Hacks
By Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
June 2005
$24.95 USD
Why use the traditional approach to study the stars when you can turn computers, handheld devices, and telescopes into out-of-this-world stargazing tools? Whether you're a first timer or an advanced… Read more.
Mind Hacks
By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb
November 2004
$24.95 USD
This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, and subliminal perception. Each hack… Read more.
Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics
By James Tisdall
September 2003
$39.95 USD
Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics covers the core Perl language and many of its module extensions, presenting them in the context of biological data and problems of pressing interest to the… Read more.
BLAST
By Ian Korf, Mark Yandell, Joseph Bedell
July 2003
$39.95 USD
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs that explore all of the available sequence databases for protein or DNA. BLAST is the only book… Read more.
Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Tools
By Scott Markel, Darryl León
January 2003
$29.95 USD
Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Common Tools and Databases pulls together all of the vital information about the most commonly used databases, analytical tools, and tables used… Read more.
Physics for Game Developers
By David M. Bourg
November 2001
$39.95 USD
Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By applying the laws of physics, you can realistically model nearly everything in games that bounces around, flies, rolls, slides,… Read more.
Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
By James Tisdall
October 2001
$39.95 USD
This book shows biologists with little or no programming experience how to use Perl, the ideal language for biological data analysis. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular problem or… Read more.
Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
By Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck
April 2001
$34.95 USD
Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills will help biologists, researchers, and students develop a structured approach to biological data and the computer tools they'll need to analyze it. The book covers the… Read more.




