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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
What makes a child decide to become a scientist? -For Robert Sapolsky-Stanford professor of biology-it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.-Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein's work, picked up as a diversion from...- $18.00
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Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement
Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin's theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living things, but highlights the importance of a scientific understanding...- $20.00
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockman's latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.Author: John BrockmanISBN-10: 0062020447ISBN-13: 9780062020444Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2011Pages:...- $15.99
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology,...- $17.99
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists--including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in...- $19.99
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human....- $19.00
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The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning
Discover the universe's last unknowns--here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and SlowThis is a little book of profound questions (only questions!)--unknowns that address the secrets of...- $16.99
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The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." --Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor John Brockman...- $17.99
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The Universe
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers--including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees--to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor.In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving...- $18.99
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Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction
Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond. Edited by John Brockman,...- $17.99
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Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture" that would bridge...- $26.95
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"--The Guardian), posed to the world's most...- $17.99
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This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Lisa Randall, Richard Thaler, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, Ian McEwen, and more of today's most innovative minds - A top-ten San Francisco Chronicle bestseller An MIT Technology Review...- $18.99
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of...- $19.99
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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
"This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world."--Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About...- $15.99
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant--but accessible--ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary...- $18.99
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What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific...- $14.99
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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start...- $14.99
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives--for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds...- $14.99
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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about--and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"--The...- $17.99
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What to Think about Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of machines that think. Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Others, conversely, have...- $17.99
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What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the...- $15.99
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