Boing Boing has some very cool scitech suggestions in their annual gift guide for non-fiction books.
- If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay: How to Know if Your Child's Injury or Illness Is Really an Emergency by Lara Zibners
- The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover
- World of Warcraft and Philosophy edited by Luke Cuddy and John Nordlinger
- Getting Started with Arduino: The open source electronics prototyping platform by Massimo Banzi