The Science of When We Laugh and WhyHumor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny ??and why?In this fascinating invest...9999903102564Scott Weems
Basic Books
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How We Came to beOur world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combi...9999903102557Tyler Volk
Columbia University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul BeliefsMost Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus rejects the traditional soul, al...9999903102540Julien Musolino
Pyr
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Can you tell the difference between talking to a human and talking to a machine? Or, is it possible to create a machine which is able to converse like a human? In fact, what is it ...9999903102533Kevin Warwick Huma Shah
Cambridge UP
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Animal and Human EmotionsA New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emot...9999903102526Frans de Waal
W. W. Norton & Company
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative QuestionsQuestions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.Science today is more a process of collaboration than mom...9999903102502Adolfo Plasencia
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and DevelopmentsToday's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understand...9999903102496John Brockman
HarperCollins
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Ten Keys to RealityOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank...9999903102465Frank Wilczek
Penguin
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Knowledge, Innovation, and American CountercultureIn his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science ??as if from a place inhabited by plague, ? and even see...9999903102427David Kaiser W. Patrick M...
University Of Chicago Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The Universe WithinTurok explores the transformative scientific discovers of the past three centuries, from classical mechanics to the nature of light and the evolution of the cosmos, and shows how t...9999903102410Turok, Neil
Faber
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the WorldA Soul of a New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economi...9999903100683Steve LeVine
Viking
jueves, 28 de marzo de 2024
What My Conversations with Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Intelligence, Compassion and Being HumanRoger Fouts, a leading animal psychologist and pioneer in the field of animal language research, achieved almost celebrity status in the late 1960s when he successfully taught his ...9999903098737Roger Fouts Stephen Mills
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 26 de marzo de 2024
"On the Origin of Species" as a Work in ProgressFew people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. ...9999903097686Philip Lieberman
Columbia University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the CosmosFrom the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date--a book that takes on the grandest question: ...9999903097655Brian Greene
Vintage
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 Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World-- and UsA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL A major reimagining of how evolutionary for...9999903097617Richard O. Prum
DoubleDay
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
The Physics of Time ??Now ? is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word ??now ? right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment ??now ? so special? Its enigmatic...9999903097594Richard A Muller
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
A Neuroscientist on how to Make Sense of a Complex World"The bestselling author of The Organized Mindexplains and debunks statistics in the information age. We live in a world of informationoverload. Facts and figures on absolutely ever...9999903097570Daniel J. Levitin
Penguin
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
Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness'Suddenly the universe appears in a new and much more revealing perspective. A splendid introduction to this fascinating idea' Philip Pullman From a leading philosopher of mind com...9999903097488Philip Goff
Rider & co
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Dispatches from an Uncertain WorldThe ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in z...9999903097464David Kaiser
University Of Chicago Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of...9999903085898Sacks, Oliver
Pan Books
viernes, 23 de febrero de 2024
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?Hallucinations...9999903085881Sacks, Oliver
Picador
viernes, 23 de febrero de 2024
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