Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).
This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don't consider yourself a geek.
Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd

The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon Fuller first appeared in the Harvard Law Review in 1949. The fictitious case revolves around explorers who cannibalize a member of their team and the five Supreme Court judges who provide opinions on what should be done with them. In addition to these, Suber has added nine new opinions along feminist, communitarian, economic, constructionist, postmodern theories of law.

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

进入21世纪后，曾经长期威胁人类生存、发展的瘟疫、饥荒和战争已经被攻克，智人面临着新的待办议题：永生不老、幸福快乐和成为具有“神性”的人类。在解决这些新问题的过程中，科学技术的发展将颠覆我们很多当下认为无需佐证的“常识”，比如人文主义所推崇的自由意志将面临严峻挑战，机器将会代替人类做出更明智的选择。
更重要的，当以大数据、人工智能为代表的科学技术发展的日益成熟，人类将面临着从进化到智人以来zui大的一次改变，绝大部分人将沦为“无价值的群体”，只有少部分人能进化成特质发生改变的 “神人”。
未来，人类将面临着三大问题：生物本身就是算法，生命是不断处理数据的过程；意识与智能的分离；拥有大数据积累的外部环境将比我们自己更了解自己。如何看待这三大问题，以及如何采取应对措施，将直接影响着人类未来的发展。

巴黎，1933年……
三位朋友正坐在蒙帕纳斯大道上的煤气灯酒吧里喝着杏子鸡尾酒。其中一个叫雷蒙·阿隆的年轻哲学家，正在向同为哲学家的让-保罗·萨特和西蒙娜·德·波伏娃盛赞一种他在德国发现的新鲜哲学——现象学。“你看，”他说，“如果你是一个现象学家，你可以谈论这杯鸡尾酒，然后从中研究出哲学来！”
就这样，20世纪影响最广泛也最深远的哲学运动发端了。受到启发的萨特，将现象学与他那种法式的人文主义情感结合在一起，创立了一门全新的哲学思想——现代存在主义。
在本书中，英国著名作家莎拉·贝克韦尔将历史、传记与哲学结合在一起，以史诗般恢弘的视角，激情地讲述了一个充满了斗争、爱情、反抗与背叛的存在主义故事，深入探讨了在今天这个纷争不断、技术驱动的世界里，当我们每个人再次面对有关绝对自由、全球责任与人类真实性的问题时，曾经也受过它们困扰的存在主义者能告诉我们什么。

海错的“错”，是种类繁多、错杂的意思。
清代画家兼生物爱好者聂璜绘制的《海错图》，共描绘了300多种生物，几乎涵盖无脊椎动物门和脊索动物门的大部分主要类群，还记载了不少海滨植物，是一本颇具现代博物学风格的奇书。
但时代所限，书中也有很多不靠谱之处，比如有些动物聂璜未曾亲见，仅根据别人描述绘制的外形，就会有很大失真。关于生物习性的记载，也是真假混杂。
正因如此，当我开始用今天生物学的角度，对《海错图》中的生物进行分析考证，从他的文字和画作中发现蛛丝马迹，辨别真伪，一步一步推理分析后，鉴定出画中生物的真身——这就像在破案一样，非常过瘾。
在这期间，我还去了辽宁、福建、广东、广西、天津及日本、泰国等地搜集素材、实地考证……到今天一年半多了，不知不觉也写了30篇文章。“破译”还将继续，先集为一本《海错图笔记》，大家看着玩儿。
在本书中，我采用了中国传统本草书的分类法，把书中生物归为“介部、鳞部、虫部、禽部”4类，以展示古人是怎样给生物分类的。有海洋生物的科普，有故纸堆里的考据，有中国人和大海之间的逸事，也有一些我个人的絮叨。说白了，就是我读《海错图》时做的30篇笔记。如果你看完后，觉得这是一本有意思、有意义的书，那我就很高兴了。
——张辰亮

从古至今，印度次大陆都是一块孕育神话、产生神话，并且生活在神话之中的土地，神话在印度文化中占据了非常重要的地位。从印度神话中，我们可以了解印度民族的所思所想，所厌弃和所钟爱的，所尊重和所铭记的。
印度神话中的人物都生活在一个异常丰富多彩的世界中，无论神、人、仙人还是动物，都受到诱惑被欲望驱策，可同时又被社会的习俗法则所束缚，时不时地想要摆脱。由此产生了形形色色或有趣，或悲伤，或动人的故事。
本书以优美流畅的 文字，带领读者进入这一奇异而美丽的天竺神话奇境。

斯堪的纳维亚的英雄史诗；《魔戒》《雷神》《魔兽争霸》的神话世界；巨人、精灵、矮人、诸神悲情壮烈的末世传说
本书以个性鲜明的文字向读者呈现了极富异域魅力的北欧神话世界。北欧神话崇尚勇者和强者，并带有悲情的末世神话色彩。无论神与凡人，与生俱来的使命便是为战而生。诸神黄昏之后，万物飞灰湮灭，在末世烈焰之下，世界新生。在北欧神话中，诸神生动而真实，他们有着凡人的七情六欲，也有这样那样的缺点，但他们却敢于直面自己神性的弱点。并且在北欧神话中，凡人也占有极为重要的地位，这也是北欧神话是勇者神话的具体体现。
精彩图文本，附赠精美书签。

人们直觉上认为，逻辑学独立于一般的哲学分支，与现实生活无涉。这本通俗诙谐的逻辑学普及读物告诉你，这样的想法实在是大错特错。上帝的存在、时间的流逝、概率的计算及决策的制定居然都是逻辑学研究的问题！本书抛弃了艰涩的术语，用最简明的方式介绍了形式逻辑学的基础知识，其中不乏精彩而令人捧腹之处。

“欧洲，为什么老是抢第一？”澳大利亚知名历史学家约翰•赫斯特在本书中的一场引人入胜的探索，为我们梳理出欧洲文明所以能改变全世界的各种特质。
作者从三大元素：古希腊罗马文化、基督教教义以及日耳曼战士文化开篇，描述了这三大元素如何彼此强化，又相互对立，最终形塑为欧洲文明的内 核；继而在诸多世纪以来催生帝国与城邦，激发征服与十字军东侵，造就出许多性格截然分明的人物——如仁慈的皇帝、好斗的教皇、侠义的骑士，乃至世上第一批享受繁荣和启蒙果实的公民。哲学思维、民主制度的渊源、政治权力的传递、甚至是医学、生物学使用拉丁文的源始，这种种欧洲因素不断形塑了现代文明的各种特质，使欧洲遥遥走在现代世界的前列。
本书以清晰、幽默、发人深省的笔调，杂以活泼的插图，叙述了一个不同凡响的文明，及其对人类社会的巨大冲击与巨大贡献。

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.