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Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology by John Brockman
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best of Edge Series
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times, on This Will Change Everything Launchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor JohnB ...Show more
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? by John Brockman (ed.)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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
Know This - Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas and Discoveries by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our und ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
Category: 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
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI by John Brockman (Editor)
Category: Science
"Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time- Good AI versus evil AI."--John BrockmanMore than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ...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
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 Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness by John Brockman
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best of Edge Series
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange Everything Markingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,edit ...Show more
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman
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
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Best of Edge Series
Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and ...Show more
This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful, And Elegant Theories Of How The World Works by John Brockman
Category: 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