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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Bridging the Two Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art...
by Bob Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A journey into the surprising science behind our flavor senses.
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don’t...
Beyond Biocentrism
Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality.
But that was just the beginning.
In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine’s "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take...
by Mary Baker Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is Mary Baker Eddy's primary work and the definitive textbook on the system of healing that she discovered in 1866 and named Christian Science. First published in 1875 Science and Health has sold over 10 million copies and is still a best-seller. It has...
The March of Unreason
Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Our daily news bulletins bring us tales of the wonder of science, from Mars rovers and intelligent robots to developments in cancer treatment, and yet often the emphasis is on the potential threats posed by science. It appears that irrationality is on the rise in western society, and public opinion...
Science Ink
Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and...
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
"Science book of the year"—The Guardian
One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018
One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science...
Knocking on Heaven's Door
How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands….How good it feels to have Lisa Randall’s unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.”
—Richard Dawkins
“Dazzling ideas….Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.”
—Steven Pinker
The...
The Restless Clock
A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants...
Chaos: Making a New Science
Making a New Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the world—even more relevant two decades after it became an international sensation
For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics...
Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution...
The Moral Landscape
How Science Can Determine Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values....
by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times / National Bestseller
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.**
Grunt tackles the science...
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How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less...