Philosophy & Social Aspects
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The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music
$19.99 Read moreA veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture… [more below]
- Author: Rowell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 168589139X
- Language: English
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Una Buena Vida / The Good Life (Spanish Edition)
$22.95 Add to cartCuál es la clave de una buena vida? Hace más de ocho décadas, la universidad de Harvard puso en marcha el mayor estudio realizado hasta la fecha. Eligieron a cientos de personas y durante años es
- Author: Schulz, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6073902336
- Language: Spanish
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The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
$32.95 Read moreIn a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?
Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society,
- Author: Wheeler, J. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085433
- Language: English
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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Read moreDelve into the story of science – from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics – with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, discoveries, and inventions that shaped our world.
Going- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744045614
- Language: English
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Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording & Electronic Music
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the qu… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1913231526
- Language: English
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
$29.95 Read moreThe story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because tha
- Author: Sprinkle, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1517900190
- Language: English
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My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
$30.00 Read moreThe long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country’s ever evolving self.… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0525520791
- Language: English
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The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive
$17.00 Read moreA playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man’s efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first place.
“- Author: Christian, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0307476707
- Language: English
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The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
$16.95 Read moreThe classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.
– Defines culture as a “cosmic egg” structured by the mind’s drive for log- Author: Pearce, Joseph Chilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0892819944
- Language: English
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When Science Meets Power
$29.95 Read moreScience and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between
- Author: Mulgan, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553061
- Language: English
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Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World
$30.99 Read moreWhat Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock was to the 20th century, Our Molecular Future will be to the 21st century.What will happen to our jobs, health care, and investments when the molecular revolution hit… [more below]
- Author: Mulhall, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929921
- Language: English
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Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
$18.95 Read moreDoes science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning beyond the world we experience? How can we ensure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to hum
- Author: Trigg, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 159947512X
- Language: English
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Cloning: A Beginner’s Guide
$14.95 Read moreWould you drink milk from a cloned cow? Should we clone extinct or endangered species? Are we justified in using stem cells to develop cures? When will we clone the first human? Ever since Dolly the s… [more below]
- Series: Beginner’s Guides
- Author: Levine, Aaron D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685227
- Language: English
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
$17.95 Read moreDespite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Abso
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051035
- Language: English
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Genius Weapons: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare
$19.00 Read moreArtificial intelligence is playing an ever-increasing role in military weapon systems. Going beyond the bomb-carrying drones used in the Afghan war, the Pentagon is now in a race with China and Russia… [more below]
- Author: Del Monte, Louis a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 163388452X
- Language: English
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God After Einstein: What’s Really Going on in the Universe?
$28.00 Read moreA leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening
“This book is a deep and provocative piece of theology that proposes we- Author: Haught, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 030025119X
- Language: English
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds
$34.95 Read moreA methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of “human-made”
- Author: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911656
- Language: English
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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic
$22.95 Read moreExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change–thawing permafrost–and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Climate scientists point to permafrost as a
- Author: Wrigley, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911826
- Language: English
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Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
$17.00 Add to cartCritical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Guy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1633880648
- Language: English
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
$21.99 Read more“This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science.” –Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenmen- Author: Shermer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805070893
- Language: English
