What Makes Humans UniqueThe Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book chal...9780691148588Philip Lieberman
Princeton University Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Neural Origins Of Human EmotionWhat makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neur...9999903112747Jaak Panksepp Lucy Biven
W. W. Norton & Company
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
A New Theory of Intelligence"For all we hear of neuroscience's great advances, the field has generated more questions than answers. We know that the brain combines sensory input from all over your body into a...9999903112723Jeff Hawkins Richard Dawk...
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature"Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent questions, Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride through recent genetic...9999903112679Gabriel A. Dover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum ResurrectionA Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches....9999903112617Clifford A. Pickover
Thunder?s Mouth Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
A History of Physics in the Twentieth CenturyAt the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only cons...9999903112587Helge Kragh Professor of ...
Princeton University Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
How One Thing Leads to AnotherBall shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions--whe...9999903112358Philip Ball
London : Arrow, 2005.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
'Engines of Creation is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically s...9999903112426K. Eric Drexler
Fourth Estate
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Lessons from a Life in ScienceWatson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as t...9999903112150James D. Watson
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Life in Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has nev...9999903111887Henry Marsh
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
What is it that makes you distinct from me? Identity is a term much used but hard to define. For that very reason, it has long been a topic of fascination for philosophers but has ...9999903111849Susan Greenfield
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A ...9999903112013David P. Barash
Bellevue Literary Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Early studies of the human brain used a simple m...9999903111993Sam Kean
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Story of Humanity's Greatest InventionIn his new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Danie...9999903111870Daniel Leonard Everett
Profile
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A HistorySunday Times Book of the YearTelegraph Science Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious objec...9999903111856Matthew Cobb
Profile
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
How Einstein's Spacetime Ripples Reveal the Secrets of the Universe On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever. Until then, investigation of the universe ...9999903107934Brian Clegg
Icon Books
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the EnvironmentPublished more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cance...9999903105688Sandra Steingraber
Virago Press Ltd
miércoles, 10 de abril de 2024
100 New Recreations100 original problems in math and logic, featuring permutations, combinations, properties of numbers, algebra, solid and plane geometry, logic, and probability. Although only high ...9999903105114Aaron J. Friedland
Dover Publications
miércoles, 10 de abril de 2024
Adventures of a Curious CharacterWinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure....9999903104759Feynman, Richard Phillips
Editors Varis
lunes, 8 de abril de 2024
How are languages represented in the human brain? Ideas from neuroscience have increasingly been applied to the study of language, exploring the neural processes involved in acquis...9999903103134Edna Andrews
Editors Varis
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2024
Marvels, Novelties, and Neglected Gems That Are Rarely Taught in Math ClassWouldn't it be great if all school teachers (from kindergarten through high school) would share the joy of mathematics with their students, rather than focus only on the prescribed...9999903103127Alfred S. Posamentier Rob...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2024
Why You're a Mathematical Genius (along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats and Dogs)There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis ??and us ??is innate.What innate calculating skills do we human...9999903103110Keith J. Devlin
Thunder?s Mouth Press
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2024
Historically, many of the most important mathematical concepts arose from problems that were recreational in origin. This book takes advantage of that fact, using recreational math...9999903103103Bonnie Averbach Orin Chei...
Dover Publications
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2024
Journeys at the Extremes of ScienceWhat's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the unive...9999903102694Scientist New
Hodder
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceMathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can invo...9999903102663Robert Tubbs
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
In this book the author sets out to describe and discuss the philosophical foundations and conceptual problems encountered in the theory of quantum physics. The book describes the ...9999903102656Alastair I. M. Rae
Cambridge University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth"We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of lif...9999903102632Juan Enriquez Steve Gulla...
Editors Varis
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How Humans and Matter Transformed One AnotherIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies ch...9999903102625Ainissa Ramirez
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
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