Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Tyler Cowen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Economic ConditionsRenowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the...

• Author(s): David Gordon Wilson | Theodosios Korakianitis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MechanicalThe second edition of a comprehensive textbook that introduces turbomachinery and gas turbines through design meth...

• Author(s): Julia Scott • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Form - EssaysThe writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude. Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Egge...

• Author(s): Saskia Walker • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Fantasy - ParanormalOne outrageous weekend with two men, that's what Faye Evans dreams o...

• Author(s): John Mosier • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IAlongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as o...

• Author(s): Chetan Bhagat • Publisher: Rupa Publications India • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications India • BISAC: LiteraryLove marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In India, there are a few ...

• Author(s): Stephanie Thornton • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralIn the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin...

• Author(s): William Gropp | Torsten Hoefler | Rajeev Thakur • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - GeneralA guide to advanced features of MPI, reflecting the latest version of the MPI standard, that takes an...

• Author(s): Sanjoy Mahajan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Applied SciencesTools to make hard problems easier to solve.In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rath...

• Author(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson | Jeffrey S. Cramer | Jeffrey S. Cramer • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: EssaysA comprehensive collection of writings by "the most influential writer of the nineteenth c...

• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThe fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark work in generative grammar that continues to be influential, with a new preface by the author. Noam Cho...

• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. In ...

• Author(s): Buzzy Jackson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: QuotationsLike all people, atheists contemplate issues of love, death, and morality, and in times of stress we long for solace...

• Author(s): Dianna Booher • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Business Communication - GeneralAn essential guidebook for honing business communication skills... Communications expert Dian...

• Author(s): Steve Martini • Publisher: Mehta Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Mehta Publishing House • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageJOCELYN ""JOSS"" COLE, A BURNED-OUT PUBLIC DEFENDER FROM L.A., HAS OPTED FOR A QUIETER LIFE IN THE SAN JUAN I...

• Author(s): Sophia Dembling • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Personal Growth - GeneralFrom the author of The Introvert's Way, a friendly and accessible guide to dating and relationships...

• Author(s): McKenzie Funk • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeA fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming wo...

• Author(s): Hassan Masum | Mark Tovey | Craig Newmark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralExperts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we...

• Author(s): Dean Sluyter • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mindfulness & MeditationNAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD-MEDAL WINNER FOR 2015 There's no trying in meditation. Just as water run...

• Author(s): Laura J. Rosenthal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literary and historical sources to explore t...

• Author(s): Nagaru Tanigawa | Puyo | Noizi Ito • Publisher: Yen Press • Publisher Imprint: Yen Press • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - GeneralWith Christmas and entrance exams rapidly approaching, everyone is becoming a bit contemplative, but ...

• Author(s): Alan G. Barbour • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases - ContagiousA world-renowned Lyme disease expert explains everything you need to know if you live, work...

• Author(s): Robert Arp | Barry Smith | Andrew D. Spear • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: BioinformaticsAn introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from biomedicine, covering th...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living ma...

• Author(s): Tom Sito • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Software Development & Engineering - Computer GraphicsA behind-the-scenes history of computer graphics, featuring a cast of math nerds, avant-garde artists, ...

• Author(s): Carl DiSalvo • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & CriticismAn exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer prod...

• Author(s): David Ciplet | J. Timmons Roberts | Mizan R. Khan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeAn examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how ...

• Author(s): Henri Natter | Adam Réfrégier | Jacqueline Vautrain Collins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and...

• Author(s): Pavan Balaji • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - ParallelAn overview of the most prominent contemporary parallel processing programming models, written in a unique tutorial style.With the comi...

• Author(s): Gregory Evans Dowd • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)The fascinating--and troubling--story of powerful rumors that circ...

• Author(s): Jim Woodring • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics Books • BISAC: LiteraryFrank in the 3rd Dimension is a series of Jim Woodring's loveliest pictures -- 32 anecdotal visual vignettes, dioramas, moments p...

• Author(s): Christopher E. Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the natu...

• Author(s): Stefan Buttcher | Charles L. a. Clarke | Gordon V. Cormack • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Web - Search EnginesAn introduction to information retrieval, the foundation for modern search engines, that em...

• Author(s): Robert E. Kraut | Paul Resnick | Sara Kiesler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of onl...

• Author(s): Olaf Sporns • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceAn integrative overview of network approaches to neuroscience explores the origins of brain complexity and the link between brain structure and fu...

• Author(s): Valerie A. Kells | Luiz A. Rocha | Larry G. Allen • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Animals - FishA comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to West Coast mar...

• Author(s): Shannon Elizabeth Bell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnvironmentalAn examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice ...

• Author(s): Nagaru Tanigawa | Puyo | Noizi Ito • Publisher: Yen Press • Publisher Imprint: Yen Press • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - GeneralNow that their relationship has been discovered, Yuki and Kyon must endure the "encouragement" of Asa...

• Author(s): Cathryn Fox • Publisher: Catherine Verge • Publisher Imprint: Catherine Verge • BISAC: Erotica - GeneralThe sizzling author of Impulsive takes paranormal erotica one step further. Lily has always kept her magick hidden, even in a tow...

• Author(s): Steven Vogel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralA provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of "nat...

• Author(s): Carrie James | Henry Jenkins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participat...

• Author(s): George A. Akerlof | Olivier Blanchard | David Romer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyTop economists consider how to conduct policy in a world where previous beliefs have be...

• Author(s): David J. Hess • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralA theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and "undone" resear...

• Author(s): Janice F. Wiesman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: NaturopathyHealing and symptom relief from an expert in treating this debilitating and dangerous condition.Nea...

• Author(s): Edward Ashford Lee | Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn introduction to the engineering principles of embedded systems, with a focus on modeling, design, and anal...

• Author(s): Ervin Laszlo Ph. D. | Gyorgyi Szabo • Publisher: Select Books (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Select Books (NY) • BISAC: PhilosophersExplore the groundbreaking work of Ervin Laszlo, a visionary thinker who bridges science and philosophy.Th...

• Author(s): George A. Bekey • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: RoboticsAn introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technol...

• Author(s): Mario Carpo | Sarah Benson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralA history of the influence of communication technologies on Western architectural theory.The discipline of architecture depend...

• Author(s): Sarah Robinson | Juhani Pallasmaa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismLeading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-bei...

• Author(s): David Herman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralAn transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making...

• Author(s): Sven Spieker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.The typewriter, the card i...