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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson  
Powells.com 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. Recommended by...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition
by Thomas S Kuhn Publisher Comments Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost...
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
Powells.com Staff Pick The future of humanity in Kurzweil's eyes is a startling vision of humans moving beyond our biological bodies to join with computers — the human machine. Controversial and insightful, Singularity illuminates the technologies that are pushing the...
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Very Short Introductions #67: Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
by Samir Okasha Publisher Comments What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can science explain everything? This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with...
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion
by Stuart A Kauffman Publisher Comments Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere?...
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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...
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature...
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
by John Brockman Publisher Comments The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious examples. Here, leading thinkers discuss ideas - whether they...
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Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
by Michael Polanyi Publisher Comments In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the...
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
by Fritjof Capra
Publisher Comments After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since...
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Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
by Michael Guillen Publisher Comments In Five Equations That Changed the World, Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the Science Editor on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, tells the amazing stories of the people and discoveries that led to the five most powerful and important scientific...
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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Powells.com Staff Pick Douglas Hofstadter's follow-up to his beloved classic Gödel, Escher, Bach is a fascinating exploration of a central philosophical concern: What exactly is the self? Brilliant, funny, and surprising, I Am a Strange Loop is a unique look at what makes...
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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
by Fritjof Capra
Publisher Comments The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues...
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Of Flies, Mice, and Men
by Francois Jacob Publisher Comments Who could have guessed that the lowly fruit fly might hold the key for decoding heredity? Or that the mouse might one day disclose astonishing evolutionary secrets? In a book infused with wisdom, wonder, and a healthy dose of wry skepticism, Nobel Prize...
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Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
by Paul Feyerabend Publisher Comments Feyerabrend argues that intellectual progress relies on the creativity of the scientist, against the authority of science....
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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...
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Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (98 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
Publisher Comments Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to...
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What Is Mathematics, Really?
by Reuben Hersh Publisher Comments Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and...
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Idea of a Social Science & Its Relation
by Peter Winch Publisher Comments In the fiftieth anniversary of this book??'s first release, Winch??'s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences...
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The Holographic Universe
by Michael Talbot Publisher Comments A delight for science buffs or anyone interested in the paranormal abilities of the mind, the latest frontiers of physics, and the unsolved riddles of brain and body, The Holographic Universe "explores the ways in which our concepts of time, personality,...
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