Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
$20.00 Add to cartWhy have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, i… [more below]
- Author: Newberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 034544034X
- Language: English
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Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
$20.00 Add to cartAladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the … [more below]
- Author: Freely, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0307277836
- Language: English
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?
“Lightman…belongs to a noble trad- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469410
- Language: English
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At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies
$22.00 Add to cart“Hine’s brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis.”–Brian Eno, musician
“Maybe it’s time to stop talk
- Author: Hine, Dougald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022803
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
$24.95 Read more“This is an amazing book . . . [Desmet is] one of the true geniuses I’ve spoken to . . . This book has really changed my view on a lot.”–Tucker Carlson
“[Desmet] is waking a lot of people up to the d
- Author: Desmet, Mattias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022757
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world
“Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”- Author: Martin, Piero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280114
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Country: The Music’s History, Hits, and Heartaches
$8.95 Add to cartEverything you wanted to know about country, from the men and women who put the music on the map, to the genres, guitars and history, to the greatest hits of all time.
From the early beginnings of blu
- Series: Little Book Of… #16
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838611398
- Language: English
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The Future of Songwriting
$16.99 Read moreThrowing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House’s new series, FUTUR… [more below]
- Series: Futures
- Author: Hersh, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891179
- Language: English
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Farewell Fear
$19.95 Add to cartFarewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple’s finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0985439475
- Language: English
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World As I See It
$10.99 Add to cartThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 17 2007
- ISBN10: 9568356347
- Language: English
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Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America’s Weirdest Music Scene
$16.95 Read moreWHOOP WHOOP The Insane Clown Posse calls itself “the most hated band in the world,” but with 11 million albums sold, the horrorcore hip hop duo from Detroit is a widespread music phenomenon with a c… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Rock, Craven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621063186
- Language: English
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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
$18.00 Add to cart“A must-read for anyone looking to understand how artificial intelligence is poised to transform human society and life.” –Paul Scharre, Author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial I… [more below]
- Author: Husain, Amir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1501144685
- Language: English
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
$15.99 Add to cartGalileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wake have left an uneasy coexistence: science vs. rel… [more below]
- Author: Dalai Lama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0767920813
- Language: English
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipat
- Author: Milner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354369
- Language: English
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
$15.95 Add to cartThe Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of
- Author: Levitan, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 039335332X
- Language: English
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the publication of the influential Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that “the intellectual life of the whole of western society” was split into the tit
- Author: Snow, C. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: April 13 2018
- ISBN10: 168411537X
- Language: English
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Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline
$19.99 Add to cartSkyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete rout… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082305
- Language: English
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
$29.95 Add to cartUntil a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface with an average depth of more than two miles–yet hu
- Series: Princeton Science Library #50
- Author: Ballard, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175624
- Language: English
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
$23.99 Add to cartIn a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra’s “quantum alternative to growing old” to unwarranted hyp… [more below]
- Author: Park, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0195147103
- Language: English
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
$23.99 Add to cartFor many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age–the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity–point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The … [more below]
- Author: Goodenough, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0195136292
- Language: English
