Philosophy & Social Aspects
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
$37.00 Add to cartThe noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come
Since it was first published in 20- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593152344
- Language: English
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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity’s Future
$29.99 Read moreAn award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity–the foundations of science-
- Author: Gleiser, Marcelo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063056879
- Language: English
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
$18.95 Read moreCan we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others.
“Climate change is a hoax–and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad for you- Author: McIntyre, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0262545055
- Language: English
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How the Internet Disrupted Science
$32.95 Read moreScientific evidence affects policies, business, health outcomes, and economies worldwide. But is that scientific claim you just read reliable? Or nonsense? More and more often, it’s unreliable. The gl… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1493094408
- Language: English
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Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
$20.00 Read moreA major work of interdisciplinary nonfiction that redefines how we understand life, agency, and intelligence
What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant toward light, the dive of haw- Author: Challenger, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2026
- ISBN10: 0143137816
- Language: English
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It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty
$30.00 Read moreA profound argument for science that embraces uncertainty and promotes possibility, creativity, and the belief that we can shape, if not determine, our future.
“This wise book challenges everything w- Author: Firestein, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606736
- Language: English
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
$17.99 Add to cartMany appreciate Richard P. Feynman’s contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him — how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0465023940
- Language: English
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Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions
Today, more and more people around the globe are using scientific evidence to f- Author: Pearson, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0691207070
- Language: English
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The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity
$27.99 Add to cartIn a historically unprecedented collaboration, leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl partners with the AI system GPT-5 to demonstrate a breathtaking possibility: that advanced artificial
- Author: Metzl, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994572603
- Language: English
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Everyday Extraordinary: A Scientist Ponders a Lifetime of Magical, Bizarre, and Paranormal Experiences
$29.95 Read moreExperiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that–stories–but for some people the rabbit … [more below]
- Author: Markovsky, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093797
- Language: English
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Speed: How It Explains the World
$20.00 Add to cartA data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed–exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology
In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is va- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593834542
- Language: English
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The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
$28.00 Add to cartIn this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that … [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593702026
- Language: English
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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
$17.99 Add to cartSeed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture.
We are on the cu
- Author: Bly, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0061836540
- Language: English
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$15.95 Read more“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson’s much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431418
- Language: English
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God, the Science, the Evidence
$28.00 Add to cartAfter four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a crea
- Author: Bollore, Michel-Yves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9998782406
- Language: English
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Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
$29.99 Add to cartWhen the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet–or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time c
- Author: Whiteson, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064641
- Language: English
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The Information Bomb
$19.95 Add to cart“Civilization or the militarization of science?”
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Virilio, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1844670597
- Language: English
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
$30.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for August 2025!
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.
Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of s
- Author: Scranton, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640035
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
$35.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explo- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0399562761
- Language: English
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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
$27.00 Add to cartNew insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosau- Author: Arbesman, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 159184651X
- Language: English
