933円 **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize** Updated with a new afterword One of...

1,780円 *A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'* *A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021* *A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'* **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 'A brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still so underestimated and overlooked in today's world...

286円 Physics and Mathematics: Collaboration, Contradiction, and the Quest for Truth: Physics and mathematics, twin pillars of human understanding, have built our greatest theories and deepest paradoxes. From Newton’s laws to Einstein’s spacetime, from quantum mechanics to string theory, their partners...

403円 Hayy ibn Yaqzan ("Alive, son of Awake"; Latin: Philosophus Autodidactus "The Self-Taught Philosopher"; English: The Improvement of Human Reason) was the first Arabic novel and the first philosophical novel, written by Ibn Tufail (also known as Aben Tofail or Ebn Tophail), a M...

0円 The crystal ball of the future is available today. Computer technology has developed the capability of showing us any image that can be imagined. A short description of the Imageverse, a particular collection of images, is presented and several interesting questions and their implications are dis...

12,933円 Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little...

0円 “You can read it as a book of Twainian essays or as an existential novel with Nobody! as the anti-hero!” Nobody in Algeria “Or you can read it like the dime-store philosophy that it is!” Nobody at the Five and Dime “Who would’ve thought to make Bohr, Godel, and Schrodinger the heroes of an existe...

5,970円 It has become popular in recent years to talk about 'identity' as an aspect of engagement with technology - in virtual environments, in games, in social media and in our increasingly digital world. But what do we mean by identity and how do our theories and assumptions about identity affect the k...

6,466円 The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate films, art and popular culture. On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating expl...

11,275円 Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this bookーwritten by some of the leading experts in the fieldーchallenge this popular image right at ...

2,136円 "Like having a scientist at your side to answer your questions in plain, non-technical language."ーScience News Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dry, technical books? In What Einstein Told His Cook,...

11,440円 Although scientific models and simulations differ in numerous ways, they are similar in so far as they are posing essentially philosophical problems about the nature of representation. This collection is designed to bring together some of the best work on the nature of representation being done b...