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  • Multiplicity

    A Scientist’s Journey into Evolutionary Space

    by Telmo Pievani ...
    The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold’s discovery of directed enzyme evolution—and how it was sparked by reading Jorge Luis Borges.In 1976, a young engineering student from Princeton, Frances Arnold, happened upon Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Library of Babel” while in Madrid. The tale recounts a vast honeycomb of a library that contains all the answers to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Serendipity

    The Unexpected in Science

    by Telmo Pievani ...
    Translated by Michael Gerard Kenyon ...
    From the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method—and the essence of its wonder.How many times have we looked for something and found something else? A partner, a job, an object? The same thing often happens to scientists: they design an experiment and discover the unexpected, which usually turns out to be very important. This ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imperfection

    A Natural History

    by Telmo Pievani ...
    Translated by Michael Gerard Kenyon ...
    In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and sent light into darkness. Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to work ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Serendipity

    The Unexpected in Science

    by Telmo Pievani ...
    Narrated by Brian Conover ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    From the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method—and the essence of its wonder.How many times have we looked for something and found something else? A partner, a job, an object? The same thing often happens to scientists: they design an experiment and discover the unexpected, which usually turns out to be very important. This ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Evolutionary Theory

    A Hierarchical Perspective

    Edited by Niles Eldredge, Telmo Pievani, Emanuele Serrelli, Ilya Tëmkin ...
    The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated into yet more encompassing ecosystems. In the face of such awe-inspiring complexity, there is a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architectural Exaptation

    When Function Follows Form

    by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy

    Edited by Gian Antonio Danieli, Alessandro Minelli, Telmo Pievani ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Stephen J. Gould’s greatest contribution to science is a revised version of the theory of evolution which offers today a useful framework for understanding progress in many evolutionary fields. His intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological factors in speciation, the multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, and the interplay between ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • Purpose & Desire

    What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

    by J. Scott Turner ...
    Can biology define life? "[An] ingenious mixture of science and philosophy. . . . highly thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In this book a professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is—and only an openness to the qualities of purpose and desire will move the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • The Blind Watchmaker

    Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cosmic Apprentice

    Dispatches from the Edges of Science

    by Dorion Sagan ...
    In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly, its questing spirit has been constrained by dogma. And philosophy, perhaps the discipline best ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea

    Evolution and the Meaning of Life

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory ... Read more

    $16.99 USD