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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
62.00 NZD
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
29.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
30.00 NZD
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
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