Best books by genre: Science

You like to collect puzzles and twist your brain? Then this book is definitely for you. It’s one of the biggest collections of various puzzles based on probability, numbers, algebra… and so much more! Having about 500 illustrations and written in merry style, this book will make you happy and funny for many-many hours and take one of the best places in your collection.

This book is a perfect example of classic scientific masterpiece. The textbook is crystal clear, well organized, and thorough. "A Course of Pure Mathematics" is great for teaching yourself mathematics. Hardy is a sincerely elegant, fine, incisive thinker, and his unbounded enthusiasm for his subject, duly controlled by British understatement, shines through every page. He conveys the irresistible, almost addictive quality of math. This book is a little quaint. The terminology used by the author is a bit out of date, e.g. ‘sequences’ are ‘functions of a positive integral variable’. But that’s the thing that makes "A Course of Pure Mathematics" so charming. The book contains a lot of examples. This is a great book for teachers, tutors, and certainly students.

William Thomas Blanford (1832 – 1905) was an English geologist and naturalist, who spent much time in India, during his geological as well as zoological research. After his retirement he became the author of the Fauna of British India series. This volume is dedicated to mammals, found in India, including Ceylon and Burma.

Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842 – 1909), an American officer and military historian, follows the course of Civil War campaigns, offering an accurate presentation of major and minor operations. He avoids over-detailed descriptions and technical terms, treats generals of both sides with admiration and respect, what makes an elegant, clear, vivid picture of the events and personalities of the American Civil War.

This book is centered around the investigation of Leonore Piper, who considered to be the most famous trance medium in the history of Spiritualism. It contains statements of fact, quoted from authoritative sources, representing a faithful and convenient summary experiments conducted. This work was written by Michel Sage, and had actually been encouraged by many individuals in the Society. This book is able to awake even skeptically disposed readers.

This is one of the 170 children’s books of T.W.Burgess. He devoted his life to presenting the beauty of nature and animals to young readers through the pages of his books. In the Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories we find ourselves again in a fairy world of the Green Forest, where a lot of funny and fascinating animal friends dwell. Learn about their exiting adventures and enjoy the warmth and charm, with which the author fills his writings. In this beloved classic, just as in every story of Burgess, children will have a great fun, as well as learn more about nature, its living creatures and friendship of course.

A book published by The Babcock & Wilcox Company deals with advances in the production of steam and the utilization of all types of fuels, beginning with the early history of the generation and use of steam.

This book is a reprint of a successful English publication. Recent discoveries and improvements are described in a simple way, so they are easy to understand, and short notices are given of prominent inventors and scientists. The paragraphs that relates to doctrinal matters conform in every respect to the teachings of the Church. The book has explanations of different words and expressions given in every chapter.

This is a very old book that was originally published in 1895 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Captain Horn, his small and some passengers are shipwrecked on the coast of South America. There are almost no chances for the help to arrive as people found themselves hundreds of miles away from any civilized community. Ultimately, the party moves into a cave for protection against both the elements who show up. Through a comedy of errors, a treasure trove beyond all belief, cached away by an ancient civilization, is discovered. That only fact changes the dynamic of the action, forcing them to change their approach to their probable rescue..

Steam Engine Principle and Practice is a very profound and detailed book which was published by Terrel Croft. The author analyzes the types of steam engine describing the main American manufacturers and most common prices. Moreover, the unique role of steam engines in industry in the 1920th is described. A separate section is devoted to the construction and maintenance of steam engines. A number of illustrations of steam engines are included.