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  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Changing Images in Mathematics

    From the French Revolution to the New Millennium

    Edited by Umberto Bottazini, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by different countries, schools and historical movements, showing how the conception and practice of mathematics ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Samir Okasha ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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. Starting at the very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Complexity

    A Guided Tour

    by Melanie Mitchell ...
    What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

    How Mind Emerged from Matter

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Information

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Sacred

    A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

    by Stuart A Kauffman ...
    Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman explains in this ambitious and groundbreaking new book, people who do not believe in God have ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Complexity : A Guided Tour

    by Melanie Mitchell ...
    What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Information and the Nature of Reality

    From Physics to Metaphysics

    Edited by Paul Davies, Niels Henrik Gregersen ...
    Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importance. Why? In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and digital information, in order to understand how nature works. Beginning with an historical treatment ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Presence of the Past

    Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

    by Rupert Sheldrake ...
    Explains how self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, share collective memories that influence their form and behavior• Includes new evidence and research in support of the theory of morphic resonance• Explores the major role that morphic resonance plays not just in animal instincts and cultural inheritance but also in the larger process of evolution• Shows that nature is not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Proving Darwin

    Making Biology Mathematical

    by Gregory Chaitin ...
    Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s theory function on a purely mathematical level? Has there been enough time for ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Cosmic Chemistry

    Do God and Science Mix?

    by Professor John C Lennox ...
    "In this accessible and engaging introduction, [John Lennox] guides us through the great debates about science and faith, and offers incisive assessments of the issues." Alister McGrath, Professor of Science and Religion, University of OxfordIs the rigorous pursuit of scientific knowledge really compatible with a sincere faith in God?Building on the arguments put forward in God’s Undertaker: Has ... Read more

    $15.89 USD