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Curious Minds : How A Child Becomes a Scientist by John Brockman (ed.)
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M. Sapolsky. Each writer attempts to identify that moment or t ...Show more
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? by John Brockman (ed.)
36.99 NZD
Category: Science
A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought. In How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think?, 154 of the world's leading intellectuals - scientists, ...Show more
The Last Unknowns : Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman
27.99 NZD
Category: Science
THE UNIVERSE'S GREATEST UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, POSED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian) Featuring Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, Elaine Pagels, Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, and more than 200 other leading thinkers. This is a boo ...Show more
The Next Fifty Years:Science in the First half of the 21st Century by John Brockman
29.95 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Scientists in the forefront of their field discuss the future of science and the ways in which dynamic changes will affect our daily lives. From brain transplants to parallel universes, a dazzling array of scientists look at what the next fifty years may hold, perched as we currently are on the cutt ...Show more
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman
29.99 NZD
Category: 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 Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
35.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Lisa Randall, Richard Thaler, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, Ian McEwen, and more of today's most innovative minds - A top-ten San Francisco Chronicle bestseller What scientific term or concept ough ...Show more
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman
24.99 NZD
Category: 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
27.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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 Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Edge Question Series
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, so ...Show more
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Edge Question Series
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guard ...Show more
What We Believe But Cannot Prove : Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty by John Brockman
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
"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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