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How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence by Christopher Potter
Category: Culture
A startling investigation of what it means to be human. Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one? In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being? What is it like to be some other ...Show more
How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence by Christopher Potter
Category: Science & Natural History
A startling investigation of what it means to be human. Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one? In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being? What is it like to be some other ...Show more
The Earth Gazers by Christopher Potter
Category: Science
The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were of the whole earth seen from space. They were taken, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space programme from the moon. They inspired a generation of scientists and environmentalists to think more seriously about our re ...Show more
The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves by Christopher Potter
Category: Science
It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space--they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire. Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The mo ...Show more
The Thing Is ... by Christopher Potter
Category: Fiction
The Thing Is . . . A novel, a confession, a poem, an autofiction, a commonplace book, a prose poem. By turns serious and playful, profound and trivial, sad and joyful, The Thing Is is a shape-shifting narrative: one that starts out as written by an alien, seeing the earth and its inhabitants from the ...Show more
You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter
Category: Popular Science
"You Are Here" is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it. It is the story of how something evolved from nothing, and how something became everything. It is the story of science: the greatest story ever told. Here, for the first time in a single span, is the life of the univers ...Show more
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