Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World
$26.99 Add to cartA blueprint for boosting your activism and building support for the causes you care about, featuring fan-building tactics from the music industry and the voices of today’s most passionate change-maker… [more below]
- Author: Met, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593735900
- Language: English
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Un Ovium Mori
$12.95 Add to cartWords do naught to function without meaning or expression providing a foundation, and despite the benevolence, grace, or malign intention that backs them up, often enough do we find that these variabl
- Author: Serna, Quinten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1645311279
- Language: English
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty
$32.00 Add to cartAn award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t
How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we- Author: Kucharski, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606698
- Language: English
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The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
$30.00 Add to cartA surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center- Author: Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703979
- Language: English
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Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
$19.95 Add to cartSilver Medal in the Social Change and Social Justice Category, 2024 Nautilus Book Awards
Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every- Author: Munoz, Lisa M. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220847
- Language: English
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Science, the Endless Frontier
$14.95 Add to cartThe classic case for why government must support science–with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today
Science, the Endless Frontier is rec- Author: Bush, Vannevar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 691186626
- Language: English
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills
$25.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions will never be enough to truly ad
- Author: Singal, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829461
- Language: English
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Science Fictions
$24.99 Add to cartAn insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.
Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mis- Author: Ritchie, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250841860
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartOver the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science’s most divisive topics, such as philosophical issu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Okasha, Samir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019880699X
- Language: English
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The Joy of Science
$16.95 Add to cartQuantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of life
Today’s world is unpredictable a- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211574
- Language: English
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Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
$30.00 Add to cartHow to live a morally decent life in the midst of today’s constant, complex choices
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? D… [more below]- Author: Rieder, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0593471970
- Language: English
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
$18.99 Add to cartAn elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything.
Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolu- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1451675046
- Language: English
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Free Will
$15.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, “brilliant and witty” (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will–and the implications that it is an illusion. … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1451683405
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
$20.00 Add to cart“Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“A great- Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800269
- Language: English
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Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method–and the essence of its wonder.
How many times have we looked for something and found som- Author: Pievani, Telmo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049155
- Language: English
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Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
$22.00 Add to cartWith stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, David Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 385340923
- Language: English
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl
$18.00 Read more‘By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.’ – Sunday Times
The story of recorded so- Author: Scott, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1472979834
- Language: English
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world
“This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in- Author: Clark, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0525567259
- Language: English
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The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One
$29.99 Add to cartIn the thought-provoking tradition of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, a fascinating and reassuring look at the philosophy, psychology, and practice of optimism, an… [more below]
- Author: Paul-Choudhury, Sumit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166803140X
- Language: English
