The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books . The book attempts to explain concepts from computer...
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations , published in 1998 , is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and...
The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. It was written in 1990 and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best...
The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. Set in the far future, and focusing more on plot and story development than technical detail, it falls into the soft...
Summer of Night is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect. Set in Elm Haven, Illinois, in 1960, Summer of Night recounts its five pre-teen...
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons. Dale Stewert, a character from Summer of Night, has ruined his life. A fifty-one year old college professor and...
The Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. Knuth began the project, which was...
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, is a perennial textbook in university computer science departments. It provides...
Barrel Fever and Other Stories is a 1994 collection of short stories and essays by David Sedaris. The book is divided into two sections. The first section consists of short fiction and the...
The Solomon Key is the working title of an unreleased novel currently in progress by Dan Brown, author of several novels, most prominently Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. According...
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a 2004 novel told in the first person by author David Michaels. The novel is based on the video game series Splinter Cell created by author Tom Clancy. The...
The Postman is a post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin. A drifter stumbles across the uniform of an old United States Postal Service letter carrier and gives hope to a community threatened...
The Never War is a book in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale. D.J found his information on many websties which is said in the back of the book quote "This is real information." In this...
Conrad's Fate is a novel by Diana Wynne Jones published in 2005. It is the fifth book of the Chrestomanci series. It tells the story of Conrad Tesdinic, a boy from Series Seven who is sent...
The Secret History, the first novel by Mississippi-born writer Donna Tartt, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. A 75,000 print order was made for the first edition (as opposed to the...
Mortal Fear is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy. Something new has swept into the lives of the Scooby Gang, but all through different sources as they try to find...
A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and...
The Man Who Grew Young is a graphic novel written by Ishmael author Daniel Quinn and illustrated by Tim Eldred. It was released in 2001. The Man Who Grew Young opens at a funeral, but we...
The Way Things Work is a book by David Macaulay. It is intended to serve as an entertaining introduction to everyday machines. It covers machines as simple as levers and gears and as...
Wizards at War is the eighth book in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. The Lone Power, suspecting that a new threat is rising to its dark abilities, creates a surge of Dark Matter...
Twilight Eyes is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1985 0riginal version, Land Enchantment . Twilight Eyes begins with a character with the self-appointed...
The Unknown Shore is a novel published in 1959 by Patrick O'Brian. It is the story of two friends, Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of Anson's 1740 expedition...
The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. For this novel, Sayers had to learn about change ringing. In it...
Fearless is a novel based on the U.S. television series Angel. The characters of Angel Investigations are shocked to find themselves euphoric after a long night they cannot remember. Their...