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Mariner Books, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a delight for any fan of popular science" (Publishers Weekly).
Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. Hardcover.
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Basic Books, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own.....
Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1968. Hardcover.
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Broadway Books, September 2004. Trade Paperback. THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. "Brims with.....
Simon & Schuster, February 1982. Hardcover.
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Vintage, March 1999. Trade Paperback. An enormous intellectual adventure. In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Trade Paperback. Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, November 2025. Hardcover. When the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet--or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time comes, will we be able to cross.....
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Picador, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of the end of history, Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, May 2025. Hardcover. Early-morning jackhammering from construction down the block. The dull roar of jets flying overhead. Your office mates' phone conversations. We are surrounded by noise, but it is a problem many of us shrug off once the immediate annoyance passes. Yet as gifted.....
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Penguin Books, March 2015. Trade Paperback. How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in.....
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Riverhead Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in.....
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William Morrow Paperbacks, May 2024. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness "No.....
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Oxford University Press, September 2014. Trade Paperback. The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly.....
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Picador Paper, June 2023. Trade Paperback. Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique.....
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Basic Books, July 2008. Trade Paperback. One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. "I Am a Strange Loop?is a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute.....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the.....
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Times Books, October 2003. Trade Paperback. A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise.....
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Anchor, August 2000. Trade Paperback. In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code.....
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University of Chicago Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how.....
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Broadway Books, September 2004. Trade Paperback. THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. "Brims with.....
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Vintage, October 2016. Trade Paperback.
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W. W. Norton & Company, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Throughout his career, Alexander Graham Bell, one of the world's most famous inventors, was plagued by a secret: he stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone. While researching at MIT, science journalist Seth Shulman scrutinized Bell's journals and.....
Knopf, April 1991. Hardcover.
