The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole

6 best books like The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole (Mark Bowen): Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe, Dumb Witness, The House on the Embankment, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, The Hive

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Author	Steven H. Strogatz
ISBN	1328879984

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.

Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven...

Dumb Witness

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	0007120796

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions...

The House on the Embankment

Author	Yury Trifonov
ISBN	0349133980

The House on the Embankment, told by two narrators, is a series of intertwined reminiscences, flashbacks, and episodes, mainly of childhood and young adulthood in Moscow under Joseph Stalin. Most of the novella, told in the third person, relates incidents from the life of Vadim Alexandrovich Glebov....

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Author	Sam Kean
ISBN	0316381683

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Author	Jimmy Soni
ISBN	1476766681

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.

Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,...

The Hive

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0765375648

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.

Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions...