Philosophy & Social Aspects
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the publication of the influential Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that “the intellectual life of the whole of western society” was split into the tit
- Author: Snow, C. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: April 13 2018
- ISBN10: 168411537X
- Language: English
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
$24.99 Add to cartIn a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra’s “quantum alternative to growing old” to unwarranted hyp… [more below]
- Author: Park, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0195147103
- Language: English
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
$24.99 Add to cartFor many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age–the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity–point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The … [more below]
- Author: Goodenough, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0195136292
- Language: English
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Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
$18.99 Add to cartTraditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Cric… [more below]
- Author: Crick, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684801582
- Language: English
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Against Method
$24.95 Add to cartPaul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowle… [more below]
- Author: Feyerabend, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1844674428
- Language: English
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The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
$19.00 Add to cartMatthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize–winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his… [more below]
- Author: Ricard, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 1400080797
- Language: English
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
$31.99 Add to cartThe general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be furth… [more below]
- Author: Firestein, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019939010X
- Language: English
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Darwin Devolves
$17.99 Add to cartThe scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and
- Author: Behe, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0062842668
- Language: English
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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, Ai, Immortality, and the Human
$19.95 Add to cartDoes technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias?
- Author: Gleiser, Marcelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0231204116
- Language: English
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Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Prigogine, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1786631008
- Language: English
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
$20.95 Add to cartNobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly hav- Author: Penrose, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178534
- Language: English
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The World As I See It
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 05 2007
- ISBN10: 9562912493
- Language: English
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The World As I See It
$17.99 Add to cartA fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect
In the aftermath of the First World War, Einstei… [more below]- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1453204989
- Language: English
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
$26.00 Add to cartIn this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envi… [more below]
- Author: Hayles, N. Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0226321460
- Language: English
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A Philosopher Looks at Science
$18.99 Add to cartWhat is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically re… [more below]
- Series: A Philosopher Looks at
- Author: Cartwright, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1009201883
- Language: English
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
$20.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people–from relig… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 143917122X
- Language: English
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Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Miller, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0061233501
- Language: English
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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
$19.99 Add to cartIn Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather … [more below]
- Series: William Patrick Book
- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0201626950
- Language: English
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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World
$23.00 Add to cartQuantum Psychology offers a coherent and humorous description of how our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our use of language and our prevailing view of the universe. While Quantum … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0692767045
- Language: English
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Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology and the Human Race
$17.99 Add to cartThis book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity i… [more below]
- Series: Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought
- Author: Guardini, Romano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: June 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802801080
- Language: English
