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Higgs Discovery – $225
On July 4th, 2012, one of physics’ most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle – and very likely a new kind of particle – had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge...
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily...
Physics of the Future. Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100....
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The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of...
Over the past few decades, the “pictorial turn” in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer’s capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised...
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Planetfall: New Solar System Visions – $745
Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson’s masterful book Beyond:...
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is...
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account...
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World – $245
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all...
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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the...
For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and...
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Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things – $230
Nothing less than a blueprint for a new way of living: a global movement which aims to marry the fruits of technology with the essential truths of Mother Nature. Bridges made with spider silk; ships...
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Hallucinations – $350
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly...
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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought,...
Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the...
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Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations – $275
“Our brains can’t help but look forward. We spend very little of our mental lives completely in the here and now. Indeed, the power of expectations is so pervasive that we may notice only when somebody...
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth – $260
“Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book.”–The New York Times Book Review From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo...
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Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom – $325
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition – $275
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted,...
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Cycling Science: How Rider and Machine Work Together – $475
Every July hundreds of thousands flock to the Champs-Élysées in Paris—and millions more to their televisions and computers—to witness the dramatic conclusion of the grueling three weeks of the Tour de...
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World – $345
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their...
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self – $275
This is a radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness. “The Ego Tunnel“, a major work from one of the brightest of the new generation of philosophers of mind, proposes a simple yet radical...
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Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution – $1,095
For the past 450 years, tree-like branching diagrams have been created to show the complex and surprising interrelationships of organisms, both living and fossil, from viruses and bacteria to birds and...
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Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and...
Consider the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as what has been taught in classroom textbooks. Consider the possibility that the evolutionary scientific explanation for...
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes – $425
No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these...
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