A History of the Dark Side of ReasonA fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt ??s a story we can ??t stop telling ourselves. Once, ...9999903097761Justin E. H. Smith
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other WorldsAn engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and en...9999903097624Mohamed A. F. Noor
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
How Culture Made the Human MindHow culture transformed human evolution Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mi...9999903097501Kevin N. Laland
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
The History and Future of Logic PuzzlesA lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late ...9999903097396Jason Rosenhouse
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological SelfA book that fundamentally changes how neuroscientists and psychologists categorize sensations and understand the origins and significance of human feelingsHow Do You Feel? brings t...9999903083689A. D. Craig
Princeton University Press
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
AI and the Future of Your MindHailed by the Washington Post as ??a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain, ? a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal...9999903081913Susan Schneider
Princeton University Press
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
Or, How to Be an AnarchistAn engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller ??and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape ??the air-conditioned nightmare ? of the modern worldThe America...9999903081722John Burnside
Princeton University Press
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A History of the Dark Side of ReasonA fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt ??s a story we can ??t stop telling ourselves. Once, ...9999903077114Justin E. H. Smith
Princeton University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our ThoughtsA revealing insider ??s account of the power ??and limitations ??of functional MRIThe ability to read minds has long been a fascination of science fiction, but revolutionary new br...9999903076575Russell A. Poldrack
Princeton University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 SecondsThe story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds tha...9999903075134Mark Humphries
Princeton University Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
Why the World Became DigitalThe genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated u...9999903074823Kenneth Steiglitz
Princeton University Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
Essays on Biology and SocietyAn authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only ...9999903073932Jonathan B. Losos Richard...
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
Good Fortune and the Myth of MeritocracyFrom New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why...9999903073604Robert H. Frank
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
Putting Peer Pressure to WorkFrom New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understo...9999903073598Robert H. Frank
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the WorldIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite litera...9999903068327Keith Devlin
Princeton University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
The Anxieties of AffluenceA surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in societyFrom TV ??s ??real housewives ? to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture por...9999903067443Rachel Sherman
Princeton University Press
martes, 16 de enero de 2024
Mania and Depression in American CultureManic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving fo...9999903064657Emily Martin
Princeton University Press
viernes, 12 de enero de 2024
A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific PracticeWhy psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline ??and how to save itPsychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything...9999903064343Chris Chambers
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
How It Really Works and Why It MattersA revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend ...9999903064091Jeremy J. Baumberg
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless FutureThe story of the visionary scientists who invented the futureIn 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's ...9999903064022W. Patrick McCray
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "egocentric presentism," a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our ow...9999903063834Caspar Hare
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Why Attractive People Are More SuccessfulHow beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spousesMost of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billion...9999903063803Daniel S. Hamermesh
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the FutureHow genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade...9999903063261Dalton Conley Jason Fletc...
Princeton University Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural KeynesianismBusiness papers today are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth....9999903062493Thomas I. Palley
Princeton University Press
martes, 9 de enero de 2024
Why Democracy Needs the HumanitiesIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the...9999903062455Martha C. Nussbaum
Princeton University Press
martes, 9 de enero de 2024
Why Americans Vote the Way They DoOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide ha...9999903062332Andrew Gelman
Princeton University Press
martes, 9 de enero de 2024
How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among UsIn the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism ??the theory that mark...9999903061489John Quiggin
Princeton University Press
lunes, 8 de enero de 2024
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