Philosophy & Social Aspects
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
$37.00 Read moreThe noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come
Since it was first published in 20- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593152344
- Language: English
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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity’s Future
$29.99 Add to cartAn award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity–the foundations of science-
- Author: Gleiser, Marcelo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063056879
- Language: English
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
$18.95 Read moreCan we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others.
“Climate change is a hoax–and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad for you- Author: McIntyre, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0262545055
- Language: English
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Everyday Extraordinary: A Scientist Ponders a Lifetime of Magical, Bizarre, and Paranormal Experiences
$29.95 Add to cartExperiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that–stories–but for some people the rabbit … [more below]
- Author: Markovsky, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093797
- Language: English
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Speed: How It Explains the World
$20.00 Read moreA data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed–exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology
In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is va- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593834542
- Language: English
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The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
$28.00 Add to cartIn this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that … [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593702026
- Language: English
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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
$17.99 Add to cartSeed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture.
We are on the cu
- Author: Bly, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0061836540
- Language: English
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$15.95 Read more“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson’s much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431418
- Language: English
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God, the Science, the Evidence
$28.00 Add to cartAfter four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a crea
- Author: Bollore, Michel-Yves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9998782406
- Language: English
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Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
$29.99 Add to cartWhen 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 c
- Author: Whiteson, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064641
- Language: English
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The Information Bomb
$19.95 Add to cart“Civilization or the militarization of science?”
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Virilio, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1844670597
- Language: English
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
$30.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for August 2025!
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.
Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of s
- Author: Scranton, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640035
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
$35.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explo- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0399562761
- Language: English
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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
$24.00 Add to cartNew insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosau- Author: Arbesman, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 159184651X
- Language: English
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
$16.99 Add to cartBiologist, humanist, and bestselling author Richard Dawkins deeply examines the inherent beauty within modern scientific discoveries.
“If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The W… [more below]- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0618056734
- Language: English
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Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
$9.99 Add to cartA fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece.- Author: Sagan, Carl
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: February 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0345336895
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$19.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental g- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593297083
- Language: English
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How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
$30.00 Add to cart“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author.”—Bill Gates
An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist’s exploration of how we can successfully feed a growi- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593834518
- Language: English
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
$22.95 Add to cartQuantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson’s terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level–a world of tiny dim… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163388905X
- Language: English
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
$22.95 Add to cartA compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.
“This is by far the best book I’ve read this year.”
–Michael Pollan, Prof- Author: Frank, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553031
- Language: English
