Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak Stem
$26.95 Add to cartA personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.
In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brow- Author: Brown, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546957
- Language: English
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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
$18.99 Add to cartThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg’s concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heisenberg, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0061209198
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Human Existence
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes huma… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1631491148
- Language: English
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn 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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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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Why Trust Science?
$18.95 Add to cartWhy 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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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$26.95 Add to cartWhat’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 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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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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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
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
$20.00 Add to cartToday’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us–and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years hav
- Author: Christian, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868338
- Language: English
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More Than Meets the Eye: Fascinating Glimpses of God’s Power and Design
$15.99 Add to cartNature reveals a God who constantly nurtures and sustains His creation–including our own bodies–in ways that we can scarcely comprehend. Discover the wonders of creation and how they reveal a majest… [more below]
- Series: LifeChange
- Author: Swenson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1576830691
- Language: English
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
$22.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge
“Dazzling.” – Steven Pinker, The Guardian
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physic- Author: Deutsch, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121359
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297067
- Language: English
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
$21.00 Add to cartA prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace
“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science .- Author: Sagan, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0345409469
- Language: English
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The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality
$18.99 Add to cart“In The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot argues nothing less than that the universe is itself one giant hologram. Mr. Talbot thus explains out-of-body experiences, quantum-theory problems, the pa
- Author: Talbot, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062014102
- Language: English
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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
$19.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling authors and hosts of “The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe,” a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technolog… [more below]
- Author: Novella, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1538709554
- Language: English
