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Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Mans Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

7 best books like Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Mans Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science (Curtis Ebbesmeyer): The Terror, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Art Matters

The Terror
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0316017442
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic...
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
AuthorMaria Konnikova
ISBN0670026573
No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home?

We can, says psychologist and...
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
AuthorAlbert-László Barabási
ISBN0452284392
A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an...
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
AuthorSendhil Mullainathan
ISBN0805092641
Audiobook: 8 hrs and 47 mins

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get...
Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized
AuthorDeborah M. Gordon
ISBN0393321320
Ants have long been regarded as the most interesting of the social insects. With their queens and celibate workers, these intriguing creatures have captured the imaginations of scientists and children alike for generations. Yet until now, no one had studied intensely the life cycle of the ant colony...
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
AuthorGerd Gigerenzer
ISBN0670038636
An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink

Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better...
Art Matters
AuthorNeil Gaiman
Combining Neil Gaiman's extraordinary words with Chris Riddell's deft and striking illustrations, Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art.

Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'....
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