Genre search:Science & Nature

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1964
Tags
non-fiction, physics, essays, Nobel
Series
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1)
Status
Available
Call number
530

The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Vol. 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

by Richard P. Feynman
Hardcover, 1964
Tags
non-fiction, physics, essays, Nobel
Series
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (2)
Status
Available
Call number
530

The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1964
Tags
non-fiction, physics, essays, Nobel
Series
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3)
Status
Available
Call number
530

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

by Karl Popper
Paperback, 1934
Tags
non-fiction, Popper, philosophy, philosophy of science, epistemology
Status
Available
Call number
160

Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

by Paul Bloom
Paperback, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, read in 2024
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Available
Call number
155.4

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

by Brian Christian
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
non-fiction, AI, machine learning, read in 2023
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Call number
006.3

The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide

by Richard A. Muller
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, physics, read in 2020
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Call number
530

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

by Douglas Hofstadter
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science
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Available
Call number
169

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
non-fiction, behavioral economics, psychology, cognitive psychology, decision making, marketing, economics, read in 2013
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Available
Call number
177.3

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Paperback, 2001
Tags
non-fiction, philosophy, psychology, randomness, statistics, read in 2014
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Series
Incerto (1)
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Available
Call number
123.3

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace
Paperback, 2003
Tags
non-fiction, mathematics
Status
Available
Call number
511.3

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

by Dan Ariely
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, behavioral economics, psychology, cognitive psychology, decision making, marketing, economics, read in 2011
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Call number
153.4

Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

by Gerd Gigerenzer
Paperback, 2008
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, decision making, heuristics, intuition, read in 2015
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Call number
153.44

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister
Paperback, 2011
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, read in 2015, read in 2021
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Call number
153.8

How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond

by John Powell
Paperback, 2012
Tags
non-fiction, music, music theory
Status
Available
Call number
781

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

by Carol Tavris
Paperback, 2007
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive dissonance, read in 2010
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Available
Call number
302

The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us

by Nicholas Carr
Paperback, 2015
Tags
non-fiction, read in 2024
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Call number
303.48

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

by Karl Popper
Paperback, 1963
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non-fiction, Popper, philosophy, philosophy of science, epistemology
Status
Available
Call number
121

Seeing Voices

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 2000
Tags
non-fiction, deafness, sign language, neuroscience, history, read in 2021
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Call number
305.908162

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt
Paperback, 2006
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, positive psychology, philosophy, social psychology, read in 2014
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Call number
170

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz
Paperback, 2004
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non-fiction, psychology, sociology, decision making, economics, behavioral economics, read in 2011
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Call number
302

A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

by Cordelia Fine
Paperback, 2006
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, brain
Status
Available
Call number
150

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society

by David Sloan Wilson
Paperback, 2002
Tags
non-fiction, religion, biology, anthropology, sociology, read in 2015
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Call number
306.6

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED Books)

by Dan Ariely
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, behavioral economics, read in 2021
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Status
Available
Call number
658.3

Awakenings

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 1999
Tags
non-fiction, medicine, neurology, read in 2022
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Call number
616.832

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know

by Emily Oster
Paperback, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, pregnancy, read in 2023
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Status
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Call number
618.2

Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson
Paperback, 1907
Tags
non-fiction, philosophy, metaphysics, Nobel
Status
Available
Call number
113.8

Snoop (What Your Stuff Says About You)

by Sam Gosling Ph.D
Paperback, 2008
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, social psychology, personality, read in 2010
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Status
Available
Call number
155.91

A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science

by Peter J. Feibelman
Paperback, 2011
Tags
non-fiction, academia, education, read in 2015
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Available
Call number
502.3

Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

by Paul Ekman Ph.D.
Paperback, 2007
Tags
psychology, Facial Expressions, Emotions, applied psychology, behavior, non-fiction
Collection
To not read (lost interest)
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Available
Call number
152.4

Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles

by Dr. Dan Ariely
Paperback, 2015
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, behavioral economics, essays, read in 2021
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Available
Call number
153.4

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement 40th Anniversary Edition

by Peter Singer
Paperback, 2015
Tags
non-fiction, philosophy, animal welfare, ethics, read in 2022
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Available
Call number
179.3

Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

by Apostolos Doxiadis
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
non-fiction, essays, mathematics
Status
Available
Call number
510.1

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot
Paperback, 2006
Tags
non-fiction, economics, finance, mathematics
Status
Available
Call number
332.01

Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

by Kathleen Taylor
Paperback, 2004
Tags
psychology, non-fiction, brainwashing, mind control, neuroscience, social psychology
Status
Available
Call number
302

The Ph.D. Process: A Student's Guide to Graduate School in the Sciences

by Dale F. Bloom
Ebook, 1998
Tags
non-fiction, academia, education, read in 2015
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Call number
507.1

Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision

by Jerome R. Busemeyer
Paperback, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, cognitive psychology, decision making
Status
Available
Call number
530.12

The Poverty of Historicism

by Karl Popper
Paperback, 1957
Tags
non-fiction, Popper, philosophy, historicism
Status
Available
Call number
121

Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Paperback, 1914, 1998
Tags
non-fiction, mathematics, calculus, read in 2015
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Status
Available
Call number
515

The R Book

by Michael J. Crawley
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
non-fiction, statistics, research methods, R
Status
Available
Call number
519.502855133

Technics and Civilization

by Lewis Mumford
Paperback, 1934
Tags
non-fiction, technology, sociology, history, history of science
Status
Available
Call number
609

Statistics in Plain English

by Timothy C. Urdan
Paperback, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, statistics
Status
Available
Call number
519.5

Discovering Statistics Using R

by Andy Field
Paperback, 2012
Tags
non-fiction, statistics, research methods, R
Series
Discovering Statistics
Status
Available
Call number
300.15195

What is the World

by Stoyan Kurtev
Paperback, 2013
Tags
non-fiction, philosophy, physics, neuroscience, consciousness
Status
Available

Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage

by Paul Ekman
Paperback, 2001
Tags
psychology, Facial Expressions, Emotions, Deception Detection, applied psychology, behavior, body language, non-fiction, read in 2011
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Have Read
Status
Available
Call number
153.6

Computational Modeling in Cognition: Principles and Practice

by Stephan Lewandowsky
Paperback, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, research methods, cognitive science, modeling
Status
Available
Call number
153.01

The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life

by Roy F. Baumeister
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, social psychology
Status
Available
Call number
302

Against Bioethics (Basic Bioethics)

by Jonathan Baron
Paperback, 2007
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, rationality, decision making, ethics
Series
Basic Bioethics
Status
Available
Call number
174.2

Philosophy and the mirror of nature

by Richard Rorty
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
non-fiction, philosophy
Status
Available
Call number
190

Thinking and Deciding

by Jonathan Baron
Paperback, 2007
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, rationality, decision making
Status
Available
Call number
153.42
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