books: science - top sellers ...     books:       Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist ’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal 's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest   Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that ...             CK-12 Calculus CK-12 Foundation, 2010 CK-12 Foundation’s Single Variable Calculus FlexBook introduces high school students to the topics covered in the Calculus AB course. Topics include: Limits, Derivatives, and Integration.             An Old-Fashioned Romance Marcia Lynn McClure Honor Code Publishing, 2012 Life went along simply, if not rather monotonously, for Breck McCall. Her job was satisfying, and she had true friends. But she felt empty-as if part of her soul were detached and lost to her. She longed for something-something that seemed to be missing.¶ ¶ Yet there were moments when Breck felt she might almost touch something wonderful. And most of those moments came while in the presence of her handsome yet seemingly haunted boss-Reese ...             CK-12 Advanced Probability and Statistics CK-12 Foundation, 2010 CK-12 Foundation�s Probability and Statistics (Advanced Placement) FlexBook introduces students to basic topics in statistics and probability but finishes with the rigorous topics an advanced placement course requires.             CK-12 Algebra I CK-12 Foundation, 2010 CK-12 Foundation's Algebra FlexBook is an introduction to algebraic concepts for the high school student. Topics include: Equations & Functions, Real Numbers, Equations of Lines, Solving Systems of Equations & Quadratic Equations.             CK-12 Chemistry CK-12 Foundation, 2012 CK-12 Chemistry covers Matter, Atomic Structure; The Elements and Their Properties; Stoichiometry; Chemical Kinetics; Physical States of Matter; Thermodynamics; Nuclear Chemistry; and Organic Chemistry.             CK-12 21st Century Physics: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies CK-12 Foundation, 2010 The 21st Century Physics FlexBook is a collaborative effort of the Secretaries of Education and Technology and the Department of Education that seeks to elevate the quality of physics instruction across the Commonwealth of Virginia.             Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a ...             Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2011 Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, ...             Spiders (Science and Nature for Young Readers), 2012 Did you know that spider silk is stronger than steel of the same thickness? Or that the venom from a Black Widow is more powerful a Rattle Snake’s? Learn all about the mysterious world of SPIDERS in the Science and Nature Series for Young Readers.             Digital Multiplication Flash Cards in Color (Ordered and Shuffled 1-9) Digital Math Fluency, 2012 This eBook includes 162 digital multiplication flash cards in color (where color is available). Each flash card is decorated with smiley faces and looks just like the flash cards depicted on the thumbnail image for the cover of this eBook. The first set of 81 flash cards has the problems 1x1 thru 9x9 in order. The first half of this eBook is designed for kids who are still memorizing their times tables. The second set of 81 flash cards has the ...             Game Theory 101: The Basics, 2011 New 2012 edition! Game Theory 101: The Basics is a no-nonsense, games-centered introduction to strategic form (matrix) games. From the first lesson to the last, each chapter introduces games of increasing complexity and then teaches the game theoretical tools necessary to solve them. Inside, you will find: All the basics fully explained, including pure strategy Nash equilibrium, mixed strategy Nash equilibrium, the mixed strategy algorithm, ...             CK-12 People's Physics Book, Version 3 CK-12 Foundation, 2012 CK-12's People's Physics Book v3 is intended to be used as one small part of a multifaceted strategy to teach physics both conceptually and mathematically. Many instructional videos are included.             The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Broadway, 2011 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, ...             CK-12 Trigonometry CK-12 Foundation, 2010 CK-12 Foundation’s Trigonometry FlexBook is an introduction to trigonometry for the high school student. Topics include: Trigonometric Identities & Equations, Circular Functions, and Polar Equations & Complex Numbers.             Texas Rein, 2011 If men were horses, Cassie Roberts would say she’s been bucked off and trampled once too often. Now she wants only to raise her son, Samuel, and fly high on the East Coast social scene. When her father calls from the Texas family ranch in need of help, Cassie can’t think of a worse fate than returning to sleepy Summerville. Then her father clues her into his bucket-list dream – namely to turn his prize foal into the first Olympic champion ...             Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (FT Press Science) Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald FT Press, 2010 Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you'd be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there'd be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious, irreplaceable brain cells. But over the past five, ten, twenty years, all that's changed. Using fMRI and PET scanning technology, ...             The Descent of Man, 2011 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             CK-12 Earth Science Honors For Middle School CK-12 Foundation, 2010 CK-12 Earth Science covers the study of Earth - its minerals and energy resources, processes inside and on its surface, its past, water, weather and climate, the environment and human actions, and astronomy. Get the latest version of the CK-12 books on the website at http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/books/kindle/             E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore (Relativity free of Folklore #1) Felix Alba-Juez, Publisher, 2011 This e-book corresponds to the first chapter of the printed book entitled "Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore", and is the first of the e-Series entitled "Relativity free of Folklore". 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