Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had Read More …
Hidden wonders: the subtle dialogue between physics and elegance
Authors: Etienne Guyon, José Bico, Étienne Reyssat and Benoît Roman Publisher: The MIT Press ISBN: 9780262539890 Call No: 621 Acc. No: 030555The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles. Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life—crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile—but looks at them Read More …
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels Read More …
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known for his Read More …
Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
Author: Jaso Rosenhouse Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691174075 Call No: 793.73 ROS Acc. No: 030533 Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep Read More …
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Author: Adam Grant Publisher: WH Allen (Part of Penguin Random House group) ISBN: 9780753553893 Call No: 153.42 GRA Acc. No: 030488 Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In Read More …
Beginners: The Curious Power of Lifelong Learning
Authors: Vanderbilt, TomPublisher: Atlantic BooksISBN: 9781786493101Call No.: 646.7 VANAcc. No.: 030498For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age that reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying new things, instead Read More …
Idea of the brain: a history
Author: Cobb, Matthew. Publisher: London: Profile Books, 2020 ISBN: 9781781255902 Call No: 612.8233COB Acc. No: 030471 This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as Read More …
Uncertain science: uncertain world
Authors: Pollack, Henry N.Publisher: Cambridge University PressISBN: 9780521619103Call No.: 501 POL Acc. No.: 030447Is world warming due to the Greenhouse Effect? Can nuclear weapon arsenals be relied upon without periodic testing? Is the world running out of oil? What action should be taken against an outbreak of foot-and-mouth or BSE? Why can’t scientists provide certain Read More …