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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Best of Edge Series
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers-including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees-to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In The Universe, today's most influential science writers e ...Show more
This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful, And Elegant Theories Of How The World Works by John Brockman
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Edge Question Series
In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to b ...Show more
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
This Will Make You Smarter - New scientific concepts to improve your thinking by John Brockman
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, ...Show more
What Are You Optimistic About? by John Brockman
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In 2007 the leading online forum for scientists and thinkers, www.edge.org, issued its third annual question: 'What are you optimistic about, and why?' As with its predecessors -- 'What do you believe to be true but cannot prove?' and 'What is your dangerous idea?' -- the question created an instant med ...Show more
What To Think About Machines That Think by John Brockman
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trum ...Show more
What We Believe But Cannot Prove : Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty by John Brockman
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate about all aspects of science, technology and even t ...Show more
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