Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
$26.95 Add to cartThe Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live band” was-and continues t… [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Grateful Dead
- Author: Brackett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478025484
- Language: English
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Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
$19.00 Add to cart“Vivid. . . . Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does dru- Author: Eagleman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0307949699
- Language: English
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Designing Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartDistinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Beer, Stafford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0887845479
- Language: English
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For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
$22.00 Add to cart“A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence.” –Richard Dawkins
The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social- Author: Sagan, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 073521879X
- Language: English
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Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
$17.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
NPR “BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR” SELECTION
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming
How does time sh
- Author: Hodges, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942658974
- 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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Philosophy of Science: Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully “objective?” What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Okasha, Samir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 28, 2016
- ISBN10: 0198745583
- Language: English
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
$27.95 Add to cartLiving on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary c
- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1517902371
- Language: English
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
$18.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about humanity’s place in the universe–and how we understand it.
“Vivid…impressive….Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.“–Sci… [more below]- Author: Carroll, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1101984252
- 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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All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
$18.95 Read moreA Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.
Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grate
- Author: Robertson, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965703
- Language: English
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Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
$19.99 Add to cartTHE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI
“The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophic
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0063226707
- Language: English
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
$30.00 Read more“I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.”
There are countless books on music with much anal- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335000623
- Language: English
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
$20.00 Add to cartThe companion book to COURSERA(R)’s wildly popular massive open online course “Learning How to Learn”
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarkin- Author: Oakley, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31, 2014
- ISBN10: 039916524X
- Language: English
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The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
$19.00 Add to cart“In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will stay in your heart forever.”–Angela Duckworth, author of Grit
Don’t miss Jamil Zaki’s TED Talk, “We’re- Author: Zaki, Jamil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 0451499255
- Language: English
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Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the Usa, 1975-1983
$29.95 Add to cartThink punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution!
Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar r- Author: Larson, Jen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1627311238
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set
$125.00 Add to cart*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment
*2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology
For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory
From The Center fo
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 942
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862553
- 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
