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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

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...

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective"? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this very short introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us―and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are...

A New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration...

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.

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.

常識が覆るミクロの世界の謎を鮮やかに解き明かし、数式なしで量子物理学の真髄を直感的に掴む、知的好奇心を満たす極上の入門体験。日々の通勤電車や静かなリラックスタイムが、原子スケールの不思議な宇宙を旅す...

難解な数式を一切手放し、日常の何気ない風景から壮大な宇宙の謎へと意識をワープさせる、極上のポピュラーサイエンス体験がここにあります。毎日の通勤電車の中や夜のリラックスタイムにイヤホンを耳にするだけで...

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of...

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.

THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, UPDATED FOR 2025 A wonder-filled quest to understand everything that has happened in the history of the Earth, from the Big Bang theory to the rise of civilization and beyond—revised to reflect the last two decades of scientific advancement “Brims with strange...

画一的な教育で浮きこぼれた不器用な少年がいかにして相対性理論を生み出す大器晩成の思索家へと変貌したのか、知られざる挫折と成長の軌跡を描く感動の伝記ノンフィクション。周りに馴染めず戸惑う日々から、研究...

数式に頼らず物理学の客観的な視点と哲学の根源的な問いを交差させ、私たちが生きる複雑な現実をひとつながりのシステムとして捉え直す、パラダイムシフトを促す知的な探求の旅。実験や観測に基づく科学的アプロー...

私たちが生きるこの世界は無数に存在する宇宙のほんの一部かもしれないという、常識を根底から覆す最新の宇宙論と量子論が交差する驚異のパラダイムシフトへご招待します。毎日の慌ただしい通勤時間や夜空を見上げ...

日常を支配する予測不能な現象の裏側に潜む美しい秩序を解き明かし、カオス理論を通じて不確実な未来を生き抜くための新しい視点を手に入れる科学入門です。通勤電車の窓から見える渋滞や、予測のつかない天気の変...

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...

生命の多様性とDNAの共通性を同時に説明する進化論という「危険なパラダイムシフト」が、あなたの日常の景色を劇的に変えます。いつもの通勤路で見かけるスズメや足元の雑草、そしてあなた自身の身体さえも、数十億...

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...

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the 17th-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.