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Free Will by Sam Harris Publisher Comments A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper 
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Staff Pick Nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, The Shallows is a fascinating look at the cultural implications and neuroscientific consequences of the Internet Age. The Internet is an unprecedented educational tool and time... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris Publisher Comments A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Publisher Comments James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality — the blood, the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch Publisher Comments Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The web of life :a new scientific understanding of living systems by Fritjof Capra Staff Pick The Web of Life is a very succinct explanation for the interstices between chaotic math systems and Gaia theory. This book explains the concepts of autopoetic networks and the theories of AI without becoming mired in the incredibly dense math associated... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman Publisher Comments More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life Is a Miracle : an Essay Against Modern Superstition (00 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Terry Lectures) by Nancy Ellen Abrams Review Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category. The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Publisher Comments Sam Harriss 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... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David Deutsch Publisher Comments For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes “parallel” to the one we see around us. This... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts Synopsis Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show and named one of the ten best black nonfiction books of 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention is “a provocative analysis” (Nature) of race, science, and politics by leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments 'Is Google making us stupid?' When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthlycover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey — into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail — well... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (11 Edition) by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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I Am a Strange Loop (07 Edition) by Douglas R. Hofstadter Publisher Comments Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Publisher Comments 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, and we forget how provocative and challenging its... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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