Philosophy & Social Aspects
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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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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science.
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes peo- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230683
- Language: English
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Taking Back Astronomy: The Heavens Declare Creation and Science Confirms It
$16.99 Add to cartTake a breathtaking look at the universe that is comprehensive guide to the heavens Sit back and explore the world at your fingertips in this book which: Explains the scale and size of the uni… [more below]
- Author: Lisle, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0890514712
- 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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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
$20.99 Add to cartWhy did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a … [more below]
- Author: Waldrop, Mitchell M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 671872346
- Language: English
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Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love
$17.95 Add to cartPARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is dr
- Author: Scolnik, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1646634691
- 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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Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club
$49.00 Add to cartThe story about the Beatles Fan Club in North America has never been told in over 50 years. This book tells the story of The Beatles fan clubs in the United States and Canada from 1963-1972. The Beatl
- Author: Schmidt, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1946182265
- Language: English
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Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club
$69.00 Add to cartThe story about the Beatles Fan Club in North America has never been told in over 50 years. This book tells the story of The Beatles fan clubs in the United States and Canada from 1963-1972. The Beatl
- Author: Schmidt, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1946182257
- Language: English
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
$35.00 Add to cartAnalogy is the core of all thinking.
This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize — winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new wor- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0465018475
- Language: English
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$37.95 Add to cartThere is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline
- Author: Clayton, Aubrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0231199945
- Language: English
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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
$20.99 Add to cartIn Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explan… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771887
- 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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The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
$19.99 Add to cartFor readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus, a bold, exciting exploration of how building diverse kinds of relationships with robots—inspired by how we interact with animals—coul
- Author: Darling, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250838428
- 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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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
$16.00 Read moreWhat can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?
A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world’s attention and sent ripples across the Middle- Author: El Rashidi, Yasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life
$18.99 Add to cartThis timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake o… [more below]
- Author: Ekl?f, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1668000903
- Language: English
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places
$23.32 Add to cartA “passionate amalgam of science and autobiography” that will leave you hearing — and seeing — nature as never before (New York Times Book Review).
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of t- Author: Krause, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 031608686X
- Language: English
