Humor Books
If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program? In If Hemingway Wrote Jav…
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Fans of the xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fa…
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. …
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of …
It's a Book
Playful and lighthearted with a subversive twist that is signature Lane Smith, It’s a Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the dig…
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janell…
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - p…
The Martian
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.<…
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post ) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times …