Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$26.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199953
- Language: English
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The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science
$34.99 Add to cartA new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his “graceful prose” (Publishers Weekly).
The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most funda
- Author: Weber, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865717990
- Language: English
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In Six Days
$16.99 Add to cartIn Six Days presents fifty doctorate-holding scientists from around the globe who certainly advocate a literal six-day creation and give sound scientific reasoning for doing so. Topics discussed inclu… [more below]
- Author: John, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0890513414
- Language: English
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Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
$14.95 Read morePresents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything
– Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philos- Author: Laszlo, Ervin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1594771812
- Language: English
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Manifestly Haraway: Volume 37
$19.95 Add to cartElectrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges
- Series: PostHumanities #37
- Author: Haraway, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0816650489
- Language: English
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
$32.00 Add to cartA theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey–found in “no other book” (Science)–to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: “If you want to know what’… [more below]
- Author: Strassler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154160329X
- 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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Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
$33.00 Add to cartFollowing in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: De Landa, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0942299329
- Language: English
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
$13.95 Read moreA short, provocative book about why “useless” science often leads to humanity’s greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources- Author: Flexner, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691174768
- 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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The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMusic has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190640154
- Language: English
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
$20.00 Add to cartVirtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. H
- Author: Chalmers, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050349
- Language: English
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This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better
$16.95 Read moreThis Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better.
This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerfu- Author: Shapiro, Shain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1915672058
- Language: English
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Music: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Add to cartA complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day!
Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or ro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0744058341
- 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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The New Answers Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible
$16.99 Add to cartAn essential resource for any believer, The New Answers Book provides a ready defense against the attacks of evolutionary thought. An impressive list of reputable creation scientists join author Ken H… [more below]
- Series: New Answers (Master Books)
- Author: Ham, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0890515093
- 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 World According to Physics
$20.95 Read moreQuantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world
Shining a light on the most profoun- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0691182302
- Language: English
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
$19.00 Add to cartPopular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. “Zero is really something”-Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipe- Author: Seife, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140296476
- Language: English
