Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
$14.00 Add to cartProvocative, stimulating, and insightful, Einstein and Buddha points to the far-reaching and profound parallels between Western scientific thought and Eastern religion. These remarkably similar discip… [more below]
- Series: Parallel Sayings
- Author: McFarlane, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 20 2002
- ISBN10: 1569753377
- Language: English
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
$24.95 Add to cartThe science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science,
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200676
- Language: English
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Society of Mind
$23.00 Add to cartMarvin Minsky — one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT — gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: “How does the mind work?… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Book
- Author: Minsky, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0671657135
- 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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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere
What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists ha- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130791
- Language: English
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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
$18.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year
It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley ex
- Author: Kotler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0062429663
- Language: English
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Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak Stem
$26.95 Read moreA personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.
In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brow- Author: Brown, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546957
- Language: English
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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
$18.99 Add to cartThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg’s concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heisenberg, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0061209198
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Human Existence
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes huma… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1631491148
- Language: English
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
$24.95 Read moreIn this accessible volume, first published in 1969, Fuller offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometr
- Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 3037781262
- Language: English
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams–“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science” (The New York Times Book Review). – The basis for the public tel… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0525432590
- Language: English
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Why Trust Science?
$18.95 Read moreWhy the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy
Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the pe- Series: University Center for Human Values #54
- Author: Oreskes, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212260
- Language: English
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$26.95 Read moreWhat’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1324001933
- Language: English
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Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
$29.95 Add to cartWomen working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out
- Author: Munoz, Lisa M. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0231206143
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
$26.00 Add to cart“Startling in scope and bravado.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe “A pl- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037889
- Language: English
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Everything You Know Is Wrong, Book 1: Human Origins
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Pye, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 20, 2000
- ISBN10: 0595127495
- Language: English
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Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
$19.00 Add to cart“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… Numbers Don’t Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who lov… [more below]
- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 4, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136224
- Language: English
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I Am a Strange Loop
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from — and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul,… [more below]
- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: July 8, 2008
- ISBN10: 0465030793
- Language: English
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Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
$16.95 Read moreIn his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we mus
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492527
- Language: English
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
$20.00 Add to cartToday’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us–and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years hav
- Author: Christian, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868338
- Language: English
