Science & Nature

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Buffon's Natural History

Georges-Louis Leclerc

The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is remembered for. He worked on it for some 50 years, initially at Montbard in his off...

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Opticks differs in many respects from the Principia. It was first published in English rather than in the Latin used by European philosophers, contributing to the development of a vernacular science literature. The book is a model of popular science...

The Birds and the Bees

David Fisher

Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are considered reptiles in the modern cladistic sense of the term, and their closest living relatives are the crocodilians. Birds are descendants o...

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's essay "Walking" grew out of magazine entries advanced in 1851 into  lectures, "Walking" and "The Wild," which had been added in 1851 and 1852, and once more in 1856 and 1857. Thoreau mixed the lectures, separated them in 1854, and labo...

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

Nikola Tesla

“Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering,—in the hope that some one, no matter who, may find a solution of one of the pending great problems,—and each succeeding day we return to our task with renewed ardor; and even i...

The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla

Thomas Commerford Martin

Written in 1893, the book is a record of Tesla's pioneering activities, research, and works.Tesla is recognized as one of the foremost electrical researchers and inventors.At the time of publication, the book was the "bible" of every electrical engin...

WHAT IF?: SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS TO ABSURD HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS

Randall Munroe

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-f...

PEOPLEWARE: PRODUCTIVE PROJECTS AND TEAMS (THIRD EDITION)

Tom De Marco

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. Their answers aren't easy--just incredibly successful. New second edition features eight all-new chapters. For this third edition, the authors hav...

THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

M. R. Carey

The Girl With All the Gifts is a breathtaking and heart-pounding thriller. It's action-packed, suspenseful and riveting from the first page to the very last one. Melanie, the main character of the book, is a special girl - a very special one. Her doc...