Philosophy & Social Aspects
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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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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a “brilliant” and “mesmerizing” (Popular Science) new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Winner of the Los Angeles Times B- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 154160671X
- 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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What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?!: Simple Ways to Have the Best First Year Together
$18.99 Add to cartLet’s be real: Caring for a baby can be exhaustingly tedious. Enter Vered Benhorin, musician, therapist, and mother of three. In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Benhorin builds on the foundations
- Author: Benhorin, Vered
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1682689204
- Language: English
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Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartJoe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.
While the global history of the dic- Author: Mulhall, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804441163
- Language: English
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The Power of Nuclear
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the pilot’s seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredi
- Author: Visscher, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399419072
- Language: English
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The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition): How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
$35.00 Add to cartThe Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition!
Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a “lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark”- Author: Gonzalez, Guillermo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1684517028
- 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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Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions
$16.00 Read moreA Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics’ biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.
At the start of the twentieth century,- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Aspect, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832015
- 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
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Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
$21.95 Add to cartAn acclaimed science writer tells the story of cosmic projectiles that may be on a collision course with our Earth.
The impact of an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Could another gian- Author: Schilling, Govert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551349
- Language: English
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
$29.99 Add to cartThe epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata–ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this bril
- Author: Poppick, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021608
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonc? – 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
$16.95 Add to cartNo other art is as popular–or pervasive–as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles–even the brand-new Beyonc?. But things weren’t
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Ford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030525
- Language: English
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Peter Br?tzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation
$18.95 Add to cartExplores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them.
Peter Br?tzmann is the first ever, full-lengt… [more below]- Author: Spicer, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1915672406
- Language: English
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Post-Punk and Philosophy: Rip It Up and Think Again
$24.95 Add to cartWhat sort of thing is Post-Punk? Is it merely a musical genre, an artistic movement, or something else altogether? What is the proper role of emotion in the intellectual life? Is any attempt to be coo… [more below]
- Author: Heter, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1637700571
- Language: English
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet
$30.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end
- Author: Marvel, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63241536
- Language: English
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The Art of Physics: How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life
$29.95 Add to cartCan physics change your life? It already has.
“What does complex system theory teach us about getting fired? How does the study of subatomic particles help us predict elections? In his insightful and- Author: Bharmal, Zahaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402747
- Language: English
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I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
$30.00 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — “a must-read for anyon… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Kieran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1541603575
- Language: English
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Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
$32.50 Read moreA thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
By most popular accounts, the universe starte- Author: Afshordi, Niayesh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0226830470
- Language: English
