History & Philosophy

The World-renowned Physicist Presents A Revolutionary Look At The Momentous Discoveries That Changed The Perception Of The World With This First-ever Compil...

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science ...

"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . ...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

Filled With Both Pragmatic, Commonsense Explanations And Outrageous Revelations, Strange But True Science Is Packed With Articles On All Things Scientific. ...

One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern el...

Does the mind reflect or dictate what the body sees and feels? What is the language of emotion? Is memory a function of our imaginations? Are we all just ...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted ...

Offers The Renowned Scientist's Final Thoughts On Using Science To Address The Most Important Challenges Facing Humanity. The World-famous Cosmologist And #...

The first edition of this revolutionary look at the scientific discoveries that changed our perception of the world, by the renowned physicist and bestselli...

From The Author Of New York Times Bestseller Utopia For Realists, A Revolutionary Argument That The Innate Goodness And Cooperation Of Human Beings Has Been...

Called The Work Of A Mesmerizing Storyteller With Deep Compassion And Memorable Prose (publishers Weekly) And The Book That, Anyone Interested In Natural Hi...

In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis's classic vision of the Afterworld, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible v...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Introduction -- Technology -- Problems And Technologies -- Technology As Phenomenon -- Futures. Don Ihde. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [143]-149)...

Merchants Of Doubt Tells The Story Of How A Loose-knit Group Of High-level Scientists And Scientific Advisers, With Deep Connections In Politics And Indust...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine ““In deligh...

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. •...

thomas Berry Is One Of The Most Eminent Cultural Historians Of Our Time. Here He Presents The Culmination Of His Ideas And Urges Us To Move From Being A Di...

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of a...

The Zeroth Law : The Concept Of Temperature -- The First Law : The Conservation Of Energy -- The Second Law : The Increase In Entropy -- Free Energy : The A...

In conversation with Heinz Dieterich, acclaimed political commentator Chomsky reviews a continent on the brink of a major economic and political crisis. An ...

The book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of intention.Drawing on the findings of leading scientists fr...

What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of West...

Grade 5-8-Covering 19 contemporary scientists in depth, and providing short profiles on over 100 more, this is a welcome and surprisingly readable account t...

this Collection Includes Essays By; William T. Bluhm, Lou Massa, Thomas Payel, John F. Post, Stephen Toulmin And David Weissman. booknews contains English ...

if You Think The World Has Changed Dramatically In The Last Five Years, You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet. you Will Never Look At The World In The Same Way Af...

It's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. For example, is it true that if you step in quicksand , you'll ...

Bowler & Morus Explore The History Of Science & Its Influence On Modern Thought. Introduction : Science, Society, And History -- The Scientific Revo...

Which Is More Dangerous, A Gun Or A Swimming Pool? What Do Schoolteachers And Sumo Wrestlers Have In Common? Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?...

#1 New Release in History of Technology, Globalization, and Engineering ─ ColdFusion's New Thinking About Technology and ScienceWhat can history’s grea...

Peterson The best-selling field guides of all time Medicinal plants are increasingly well regarded as supplements and sometimes as alternatives for prescr...

In a brand new Preface, bestselling author Richard Koch describes a paradigm shift in business, whereby intuition is more important than analysis, ideas and...

Kevin Kelly. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 475-500) And Index.Categories: Engineering & TransportationEngineering

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...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...

Un ouvrage complet sur la psychologie, des dbuts de la psychologie en tant que science jusqu' la neurologie. Cet ouvrage rend la psychologie aussi accessibl...

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyGener...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

A century after Albert Einstein began postulating his "Big Idea" about time, space, and gravity, a new biography examines the scientist whose public idoliz...

Jared Kushner Was One Of The Most Consequential Presidential Advisers In Modern History. For The First Time, He Recounts What Happened Behind Closed Doors D...

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill [Broadway Books,2004] [Paperback]Categories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

This hands-on guide offers practical advice on all aspects of science communication. It features a tightly interwoven fabric of issues: product types, targe...

Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontol...

In This Book, The Authors Investigate An Array Of Instruments From The 17th To The 19th Century That Seem At First To Be Marginal To Science. By Looking At ...

It's time to honor the significant scientific contributions of Esther Zimmer Lederberg. In A Hidden Legacy, Thomas E. Schindler shares the story of this rem...