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Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world "Correlation does not imply causation." This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades, and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and...

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.

Thomas Nagels ebenso kurze wie genaue und umfassende Einführung in die Philosophie findet in verständlicher Form Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens: Woher wissen wir etwas? Wie hängen Körper und Geist zusammen? Was bedeuten Wörter? Gibt es Willensfreiheit wirklich? Was ist Recht und was ist Unrecht? Was ist der Tod? Und worin könnte der Sinn des Lebens bestehen?

Die atemberaubende Insider-Story über den Wettlauf zu einer Superintelligenz, die die Welt verändern wird Als Tech-Kolumnist der New York Times mit Sitz in San Francisco hat Kevin Roose die KI-Revolution aus der ersten Reihe miterlebt: Sein Bericht darüber, wie der Bing Chatbot von Microsoft versuchte, seine Ehe zu sabotieren, ging um die ganze Welt. Sein neues Buch ist der Insider-Bericht von dem entscheidenden Moment in der Menschheitsgeschichte, an dem eine Handvoll Leute eine sehr mächtige KI ins Leben riefen.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth could be explained by a single natural process operating across millions of years? In *On the Origin of Species*, Charles Darwin presents one of the most revolutionary scientific ideas in human...

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

Explore the harrowing medical history where public health triumphs collide with bioethics and devastating human costs. Perfect for your educational commute, this eye-opening narrative plunges you into the clinical trenches that shaped modern medicine. Prepare for a thought-provoking deep dive...

中世の伝統と新たな発見が静かに衝突するパラダイムシフトの瞬間を追体験し、人類が「科学」という革新的な世界観を獲得していく歴史のうねりを紐解く知的ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスしたい夜の...

In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.

A ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time. So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great. This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up? We love to...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of...

Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators.

直感に反するミクロの法則を解き明かし、見慣れた日常の景色を劇的に変える量子物理学の驚くべき世界へようこそ。通勤電車に揺られる慌ただしい時間や、家事の合間のふとした瞬間に耳を傾けるだけで、複雑な数式に...

Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other...

Brought to you by Penguin. Journey through time and space with Bill Bryson in the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, exploring the history of the Earth, the universe, and everything in between. NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED IN THIS NEW ABRIDGED EDITION, READ BY THE AUTHOR...

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed. Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or...