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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman Publisher Comments 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 answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman Publisher Comments 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 answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Despite the theory's age, The Blind Watchmaker is as prescient and timely as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian, William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence... (read more) Your price: $69.97 New - Compact Disc
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Telephoning in English Audio Cassette (Cambridge Professional English) by B. Jean Naterop Publisher Comments Telephoning in English is for professionals and trainees in business, commerce and administration who need to be able to receive and make telephone calls. It is suitable for use in class or for self-study. Telephoning in English develops and consolidates... (read more) Your price: $53.25 New - Audio Cassette
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The Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande Publisher Comments This is the first book to provide basic, non-technical information on understanding and implementing Six Sigma.... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris ? ?the best popular science writer in the English language today? (Christian Science Monitor) ? makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism... (read more) Your price: $89.97 New - Compact Disc
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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris ? ?the best popular science writer in the English language today? (Christian Science Monitor) ? makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism... (read more) Your price: $44.97 New - Compact Disc
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Publisher Comments In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion’s monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Religion and Science CD (Listen to Genius) by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments "New truth is often uncomfortable," Bertrand Russell wrote, "but it is the most important achievement of our species." In Religion and Science (1961), his popular polemic against religious dogma, he covers the ground from demonology to quantum physics... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Compact Disc
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Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College by Sandra Aamodt Publisher Comments How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries-and difficulties-encountered by parents. In an effort to raise our children smarter, happier, stronger, and better, parents will try almost anything, from vitamins to toys to DVDs. But how can we... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Wrong: Why Experts* Keep Failing Us-And How to Know When Not to Trust Them: Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity CEOs, by David H. Freedman Publisher Comments Our investmeents are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists, and other experts who... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Clausewitz's on War (Books That Changed the World) by Hew Strachan Publisher Comments Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required... (read more) Your price: $49.99 New - Compact Disc
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How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey Publisher Comments In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang.What if we could look... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - Compact Disc
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Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli Publisher Comments Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Compact Disc
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Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse by David Owen Publisher Comments Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to... (read more) Your price: $71.99 New - Compact Disc
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Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger by Dick Couch Publisher Comments The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment. They stand alone, even among our other Special Operations forces, as the most active brigade-sized force in the current Global War on Terrorism. Since 9... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris ? ?the best popular science writer in the English language today? (Christian Science Monitor) ? makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman Publisher Comments In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science, including: Is this really a scientific age?... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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Only Integrity Is Going to Count: Integrity Day, Los Angeles February 26, 1983 by R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher Comments In 1983, during the last months of his life, Bucky gave a series of four all-day lectures titled "Integrity Day" to overflow audiences in four cities. This five-hour-long recording is a passionate summary of Bucky's ideas. He reviews his assessment of... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Compact Disc
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