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  • You Are Here

    A Portable History of the Universe

    “A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account” of the universe and our place in it, and “an idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book” (The Boston Globe).Here is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. The universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. Clouds of gas were woven into whatever ... Lire la suite

    $1.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    par Nick Bostrom ...
    A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought?Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right?Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, ... Lire la suite

    $8.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Blockchain Democracy

    Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd

    In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime. Magnuson argues that blockchain's popularity stands as a testament both to the ... Lire la suite

    $27.99 USD

  • The Lotus Sutra

    par Gautama Buddha ...
    The Lotus Sutra is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which several schools of Buddhism were established.The oldest parts of the text (Chapters 1-9 and 17) were probably written down between 100 BC and 100 AD: most of the text had appeared by 200 AD. The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sutra is the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, which translates to "the ... Lire la suite

    $3.93 USD

  • The Parrot in the Mirror

    How evolving to be like birds made us human

    How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot? We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining human traits: our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing, and learning and language, all deep parts of what it means to be human, are far more similar to birds than to our fellow mammals. These ... Lire la suite

    $16.99 USD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    par Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Science

    Understanding the Social Study of Science

    par Steven Yearley ...
    `Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines landmark works, authors, concepts and approaches ... I will certainly use this book as one of the course texts′Eileen Crist, Associate Professor, Science & Technology in Society, Virginia TechScience ... Lire la suite

    $71.99 USD

  • Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life

    How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew

    If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ... Lire la suite

    $22.99 USD

  • Making Medical Knowledge

    par Miriam Solomon ...
    How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years. Consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine are among the most prominent new methods. Making Medical Knowledge explores their origins and aims, their epistemic strengths, and their ... Lire la suite

    $62.99 USD $26.99 USD

  • Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

    The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal, and ontic. He argues that the prevailing view (a version of the epistemic conception) is untenable ... Lire la suite

    $23.99 USD

  • Burning Matters

    Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

    par Peter C. Little ...
    Series series Global and Comparative Ethnography
    Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in Ghana. He brings to light the lived experiences of Ghana's e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, ... Lire la suite

    $27.99 USD

  • Exposed

    Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times

    par Stacy Alaimo ...
    Opening with the statement “The anthropocene is no time to set things straight,” Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, Exposed argues for feminist posthumanism immersed in strange agencies and scale-shifting ethics. Including such ... Lire la suite

    $15.99 USD

  • Before the Fallout

    From Marie Curie to Hiroshima

    par Diana Preston ...
    On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy"exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the intervening half century, during which an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world revealed how to destroy it, and an open, international, ... Lire la suite

    $15.99 USD

  • Proofs and Refutations

    The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

    Modifié par Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Elie Zahar ...
    Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion (which mirrors certain real ... Lire la suite

    $49.99 USD

  • Notes on Complexity

    A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

    par Neil Theise ...
    FOR READERS OF… Carlo Rovelli, Yuval Noah Harari, Suzanne Simard, James Gleick, Sean Carroll, Alan Lightman, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, and Richard Feynman. Other comps include: The Hidden Life of Trees, Finding the Mother Tree, Sapiens, The Gene, Underland, Braiding Sweetgrass, Being Mortal, and The Soul of an Octopus.FIRST OF... ... Lire la suite

    $19.99 USD

  • An Ecotopian Lexicon

    Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generationAs the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts ... Lire la suite

    $17.99 USD

  • Chilled

    How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

    par Tom Jackson ...
    A thrilling, mystery-lifting narrative history of the refrigerator and the process of refrigerationThe refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of ... Lire la suite

    $15.99 USD

  • Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

    **Winner of the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Five Books "Best Literary Science Writing" Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Best Science Book of 2022 • A Prospect Magazine Top Memoir of 2022 • A KCRW Life Examined Best Book of 2022"Keen observer [and] deft writer" (David Quammen) Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD

  • The 5th Miracle

    The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

    par Paul Davies ...
    ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?In his latest far-reaching book, The Fifth Miracle, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life.Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled Earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD

  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

    par Epictetus ...
    Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.This collection of Epictetus' aphorisms can be seen as an early type of self help book or a window into the teachings of the Stoics. The short ... Lire la suite

    $3.93 USD

  • The World Itself

    Consciousness and the Everything of Physics

    par Ulf Danielsson ...
    There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to probing the deepest mysteries of nature, thinks not. As he ... Lire la suite

    $13.99 USD

  • Ethical Questions in Healthcare Chaplaincy

    Learning to Make Informed Decisions

    par Pia Matthews ...
    This textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but flexible framework which chaplains can use to reflect on their own practice.Tackling essential issues such as consent, life support, abortion, beginning and end of life and human dignity, it enables chaplains to tease out the ethical implications of ... Lire la suite

    $24.99 USD

  • Ciencia y espiritualidad

    Una integración cuántica

    Through an exposition of scientific theory and experimental data, as well as of spiritual practices and cosmologies, the authors propose a paradigm shift by exploring spirituality through science. Claiming that spirituality can solve not only the paradoxes of quantum physics but also those of life, the human mind, and health, this book goes so far as to address ideas about life after death, ... Lire la suite

    $15.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Animal Algorithms

    par Eric Cassell ...
    How do some birds, turtles, and insects possess navigational abilities that rival the best manmade navigational technologies? Who or what taught the honey bee its dance, or its hive mates how to read the complex message of the dance? How do blind mound-building termites master passive heating and cooling strategies that dazzle skilled human architects? In The Origin of Species Charles Darwin ... Lire la suite

    $7.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus