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Springer Abduction Reason and Science Processes of Discovery and Explanation
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Springer Technology Science Teaching and Literacy
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Springer Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts
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Springer ModelBased Reasoning Science Technology Values
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Random House USA Inc Livewired The Inside Story of the EverChanging
Book Synopsis“Vivid. . . . Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn.” —The Wall Street JournalWhat does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the earth? The answers to these questions are right behind our eyes. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the skull. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. I
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Random House USA Inc Billions Billions
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Little, Brown Book Group The End Of Science
Book SynopsisAs a writer for SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, John Horgan has an unsurpassed window on contemporary science, routinely interviewing the scientific geniuses of our times, scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Karl Popper and Noam Chomsky. In THE END OF SCIENCE, Horgan displays his genius for getting these larger-than-life figures to be human, whilst also encouraging them to confront the very limits of knowledge. Have the big questions all been answered? Has all the knowledge worth pursuing become known? Will there be a final ''theory of everything'' that signals the end? Horgan extracts surprisingly candid answers to these and other delicate questions as he discusses God, Star Trek, superstrings, quarks, consciousness and numerous other topics. In a time where scientific rationality is under fire from every quarter, THE END OF SCIENCE is a witty, thoughtful, profound and entertaining narrative which serves as both a critique of and a homage to modern science.Trade ReviewA fine example of popular science writing. Accessible, argumentative, stimulating, informative, highly polished and hugely enjoyable ... this is a feast of a book * TES *I wish I could write like John Horgan ... [he] has a novelist's eye for character revealing detail, and we can almost see, as well as hear these scientists engaging in their passionate arguments. * NEW SCIENTIST *Horgan covers a stunning set of thinkers, with whom he discusses a remarkable range of scientific ideas * FINANCIAL TIMES *A hugely entertaining book, certain to create controversy. * E.O Wilson *
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Random House Publishing Group The Value of Science
Book SynopsisMore than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his life solved complex mathematical calculations in his head, and a writer gifted with an inimitable style, Poincaré rose to the challenge of interpreting the philosophy of science to scientists and nonscientists alike. His lucid and welcoming prose made him the Carl Sagan of his time. This volume collects his three most important books: Science and Hypothesis (1903); The Value of Science (1905); and Science and Method (1908).
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Springer Demonstrational Optics
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Springer Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists
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Springer Mathematics A Concise History and Philosophy
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Springer Between Rationalism and Empiricism Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critiques of Knowing Situated Textualities in Science Computing and The Arts
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iUniverse Transcendental Physics Integrating the Search for Truth
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Author Solutions Inc Everything You Know Is Wrong Book 1
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iUniverse Man Medicine and Space A Manifesto for the Millennium
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iUniverse Journey Into the New Cosmology A Scientific and Mystical Exploration
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iUniverse The Theory of Primes
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iUniverse The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism An Exploration of Spirit Matter and Physics
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iUniverse The scientists Conversations with the Teacher Science and Esoterics
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iUniverse How Alien Would Aliens Be
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iUniverse Tautological Oxymorons Deconstructing Scientific MaterialismAn Ontotheological Approach
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iUniverse Intellectual Jazz
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iUniverse Putting Soul into Science
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iUniverse Intellectual Jazz II
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iUniverse The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism
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iUniverse LifeConscious An Alternative Theory to Evolution and Creationism
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iUniverse The Ten Assumptions of Science Toward a New Scientific Worldview
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iUniverse Goodbye Mom My Bipolar Journey Through Trauma Tragedy and Recovery
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iUniverse Paradox The Rejected Cornerstone
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iUniverse The Scientific Worldview Beyond Newton and Einstein
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iUniverse Mission to Mars 2025 Volume I What We Can Do 1
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iUniverse Universal Consciousness From MaterialisticScience to the Mental Projection Unified Theory
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iUniverse OUR UNIVERSE A Scientific and Religious View of Creation
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iUniverse Holy Grail and Modern Science as Duality
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iUniverse BEYOND THE SCIENCERELIGION DEBATE A naturalistic world view
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iUniverse Signs Science and Symbols of the Prophecy Andrew the Prophet
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iUniverse Homo dominus A Theory of Human Evolution
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iUniverse Intellectual Jazz
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iUniverse Lifeconscious An Alternative Theory to Evolution and Creationism
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iUniverse The Ten Assumptions of Science Toward a New Scientific Worldview
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iUniverse Goodbye Mom My Bipolar Journey Through Trauma Tragedy and Recovery
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iUniverse The Scientific Worldview Beyond Newton and Einstein
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Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Way the World Is The Christian Perspective of a Scientist The Christian Perspective of a Scientist Revised
Book SynopsisIn this brief and highly accessible book for general readers, distinguished physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne presents a reasoned account of the Christian view of the world as seen by the one of the world's leading interpreters of the interface between science and religion. Drawing from his experiences as a scientist and a...
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Mariner Books Phantoms in the Brain
Book SynopsisNeuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we''re so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases:A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity
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Hilaritas Press, LLC. Quantum Psychology
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US The Physics Of Consciousness The Quantum Mind And The Meaning Of Life
Book SynopsisFor decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics, Zen, and subjective experience, and arrives at an unexpected destination. In this tour-de-force of scientific investigation, Evan Harris Walker shows how the operation of bizarre yet actual properties of elementary particles support a new and exciting theory of reality, based on the principles of quantum physics-a theory that answers questions such as What is the nature of consciousness, of will? What is the source of material reality? and What is God?
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Polity Press Kuhn
Book SynopsisThomas Kuhn''s shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science, historiography, feminism, theology, and (of course) the natural sciences themselves is unparalleled. His epoch-making concepts of new paradigm' and scientific revolution' make him probably the most influential scholar of the twentieth century. Sharrock and Read take the reader through Kuhn''s work in a careful and accessible way, emphasizing Kuhn''s detailed studies of the history of science, which often assist the understanding of his more abstract philosophical work. These historical studies provide vital insight into what Kuhn was actually trying to achieve in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: an endeavour far less extreme than either his foes' or his fans' claim. In the book''s second half, Sharrock and Read provide excellent explications, defences anTrade Review"As Thomas Kuhn indicated in the first sentence of his great book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his aim was to “produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed”. Unfortunately, many of Kuhn's readers have been possessed by a distorted image of Kuhn's own position, and so failed to appreciate the signal contribution he made to our understanding of scientific practice. Sharrock and Read aim to do for our image of Kuhn what Kuhn did for our image of science. They succeed brilliantly, giving a wonderfully insightful and nuanced account of what Kuhn was up to and what he achieved." Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations for Kuhn's Works. Introduction: The Legendary Thomas Kuhn. Part I Exposition. 1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2 The Historical Case Studies. Part II Critical Issues. 3 Kuhn and the Methodologists of Science. 4 Incommensurability 1: Relativism about Truth and Meaning. 5 Incommensurability 2: World Changes. Conclusion: The Unresolved Tension. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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