Philosophy & Social Aspects
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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 Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
$29.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
The tuba’s so- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1639735488
- Language: English
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Time, Myth and Matter
$30.00 Add to cartWhat is time? How is consciousness related to the physical world? Why is the simulation hypothesis so popular? These are just some of the questions LD Deutsch tackles in her first collection of essays
- Author: Deutsch, LD
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1736146939
- Language: English
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A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros
$29.95 Read more365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros.
A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep- Author: Loveless, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1949597342
- Language: English
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Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn from It
$29.95 Add to cartRediscover the thriving civilizations of Pre-Columbian America and learn how Native ingenuity transformed the landscape into a flourishing world we can still learn from today
North America was not em- Author: Rice, Stanley A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088661
- Language: English
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Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries.
Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes?- Author: Stipp, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1643264877
- Language: English
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossi… [more below]
- Author: Pinker, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1668011573
- Language: English
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
$43.43 Add to cartIn the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She esc… [more below]
- Series: Experimental Futures
- Author: Haraway, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362244
- Language: English
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Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying Are Trying to Say about Where They’re Going
$17.00 Add to cartThe first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness–similar to Near-Death Experience–this “fascinating” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration brings “humor, sympathy, and keen critical intell… [more below]
- Author: Pearson, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1476757070
- Language: English
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How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
$18.99 Read moreFrom facial recognition–capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents–to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves
- Author: Wiggins, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074582
- Language: English
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The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet
$30.00 Add to cartIn this substantially revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095288
- Language: English
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Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
$29.95 Add to cartThe strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America–from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
In 1995, a scandal erupted whe- Author: Linker, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 069123549X
- Language: English
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The Universal One
$24.99 Add to cartThe Universal One” is a book written by Walter Russell that explains his new Cosmology. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Russell science and philosophy. The book reveals the possibility of t
- Author: Russell, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1998050017
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$32.00 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0062950789
- 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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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
$32.95 Add to cartGold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024
Best Books of 2024, Kirkus Reviews
Winner, Independent Press Awards 2024
Honorable Mention, Royal Dragonfly Book Awards 2024 (Religion/Spirituality)
Winner… [more below]
- Author: Bostrom, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1646871642
- 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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To Forever Inhabit This Earth: An Ethic of Enoughness
$24.95 Add to cart“Wise and empathetic, this inspires.”–Publishers Weekly
“Rig-or-ous, yet lyri-cal, lofty yet prac-ti-cal, To For-ev-er Inhab-it This Earth belongs on the book-shelves of those who cher-ish Jew-ish tex
- Author: Cardin, Nina Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 168115093X
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$19.99 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0062950797
- Language: English
