Book list

A list of seemingly interesting books which I came across while passing my time in the new-books section of our library, was told about by some friend etc. etc. Haven't read all of them. There is no specific ordering here.

• J. Heine and J-P. Praderes (2005) "The golden age of hand-built bicycles"
  
• S. Wolpert (2000) "A new history of India"
• B. Russell (1968 first, 1995 revised edition) "Unpopular essays"
  
• Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007) "Three cups of tea".
• C. K. Prahalad (2005) "Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid".
• J. Diamond (1999) "Guns germs and steel - the fates of human societies"
• A. Adiga (2008) "The white tiger"
• M. Gladwell (2008) "Outliers - the story of success"
• M. Gladwell (2005) "Blink - the power of thinking without thinking"
  
• J. B. Taylor (2009) "My stroke of insight - a brain scientist's personal journey"
• A. Levitsky (2008) "Worlds apart an anthology of Russian fantasy and science fiction"
• J. Krause (2008) "Photo idea index - places"
• T. Ang (2008) "Digital photography masterclass"

• William Dunham (1990) "Journey through genius: the great theorems of mathematics" (This is a keeper)
• J. Kakalios (2006) "The physics of superheroes" (Great for introductory physics and makes me want to read comic books)
• M. Hoagland and B. Dodson (1999) "Patterns - sixteen things you should know about life"
• B. Bryson (2003) "A short history of nearly everything"
• C. Sagan (1997) "Billions and billions"
  
• S. Hawking and L. Mlodinow. () "Briefer history of time"
• P. Atkins (2003) "Galileo's finger : the ten great ideas of science"
• George Pólya (1962) "Mathematical discovery; on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving".
• George Pólya (1954) "Mathematics and plausible reasoning".
• F. Hidetoshi and T. Rothman (2008) "Sacred mathematics - Japanese temple geometry"
• Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler (2003) "Proofs from THE BOOK".
• (2004) "Sherlock Holmes in Babylon : and other tales of mathematical history"
• Frank E Burk (2007) "A Garden of Integrals"
• C. Alsina and R Nelsen (2009) "When less is more: Visualizing basic inequalities"
• M. Levi (2009) "The mathematical mechanic: Using physical reasoning to solve problems"
• J. A. Adam (2009) "A mathematical nature walk"
• J. Bryant and C. Sangwin (2008) "How round is your circle? Where engineering and mathematics meet"
• S. Kalajdzievski (2008) "Math and art - an introduction to visual mathematics"
• M. Hoagland and B. Dodson (1998) "The way life works - The science lover's illustrated guide to how life grows, develops, reproduces, and gets along"
• D. E. Smith () "A source book in mathematics"

• W. W. R. Ball (1939) "Mathematical recreations and essays"
• A. H. Beiler (1966) "Recreations in the theory of numbers : the queen of mathematics entertains"
• J. D. E. Konhauser, D. Velleman and S. Wagon (1996) "Which way did the bicycle go? and other intriguing mathematical mysteries"
• K. Kendig (2008) "Sink or float? Thought problems in math and physics"
• L. Weinstein and J. A. Adam (2008) "Guesstimation - solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin"
• R. Honsberger (2004) "Mathematical delights"
• R. Honsberger (2003) "Mathematical diamonds"
• R. Honsberger (1991) "More mathematical morsels"
• J. Havil (2008) "Impossible? surprising solutions to counter-intuitive conundrums"
• J. Martineau (2002) "A little book of coincidence"