Philosophy & Social Aspects
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The Madman’s Orchestra: The Greatest Curiosities from the History of Music
$35.00 Read moreA beautifully illustrated exploration of the strangest areas of music from around the world, from the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Phantom Atlas, The Madman’s Library, and The De
- Series: Madman’s
- Author: Brooke-Hitching, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1797240129
- Language: English
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On the Record: Music That Changed America
$35.00 Read moreIn On the Record: Music That Changed America, Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Billie Hol
- Author: Celenza, Anna Harwell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324004991
- Language: English
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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
$32.00 Read moreA fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos
In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593701682
- Language: English
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Ciencia (Science): The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Add to cartLa nueva edici?n de Ciencia, actualizada y ampliada con los descubrimientos cient?ficos m?s recientes que han cambiado nuestro mundo para siempre.
Desde los or?genes del pensamiento cient?fico hasta l- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217129935
- Language: Spanish
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In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
$32.99 Add to cartWhat is Now? This immediate moment, what we’re experiencing right now … it bathes us like air, or gravity. Yet when we try to grasp this quality, to scrutinize it or bring it into focus, it vanishe
- Author: Marchant, Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324097485
- Language: English
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Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
$30.00 Add to cartA daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige H… [more below]
- Author: Harden, Kathryn Paige
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 059344762X
- 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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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. S
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0062937987
- Language: English
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Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$29.95 Add to cartFor most of his career, the Emmy Award-winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts w
- Author: Santiago, Lucas Cantor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765143179
- 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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Traversal
$36.00 Add to cartFrom the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life.
In Traversal, her startling and moving new book, Maria Popova traverses the border- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374616418
- Language: English
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The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos
$32.50 Add to cartAn award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos
All of us understand the world around us by constr- Author: Jaffe, Andrew H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300250509
- Language: English
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
$20.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactions
For all the thousands of bo- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038338
- Language: English
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Why Sound Matters
$26.00 Add to cartA poignant consideration of the material aspect of sound and how it fundamentally shapes our experience of the world, both in its presence and absence
From the joyous communal connections fostered th- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Krukowski, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272243
- Language: English
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
$24.00 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize Finalist
In this captivating exploration of the natural world, acclaimed author Lewis Thomas takes readers on a compelling journey into the intricacies of life and mortality. The med- Author: Thomas, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140243194
- 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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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the Washington Post‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
If the history of the Earth were compresse
The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.- Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397537
- 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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God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong about God All Along
$18.99 Add to cart“This is as important a book on this subject as I recall ever having read.”
— Huston Smith“Brilliant…. Schroeder’s book demands the attention of anyone who wonders if God must be exiled from the mo
- Author: Schroeder, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0061710164
- Language: English
