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  • The Intelligence of a Machine

    by Jean Epstein ...
    Series series Univocal
    The advent of the cinema radically altered our comprehension of time, space, and reality. With his experience as a pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, Jean Epstein uses the universes created by the cinematograph to deconstruct our understanding of how time and space, reality and unreality, continuity and discontinuity, determinism and randomness function both inside and outside the cinema. Time, he ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

    An Existential Detective Story

    by Jim Holt ...
    “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page reviewTackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    by Jim Holt ...
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.**Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Not a Chance

    God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason

    Despite claiming unbelief in God or any higher power that may have designed or created the world and all that is in it, modern scientists often write and speak of chance as some kind of being or force that can cause things to happen. In one breath they push the evolution agenda and in the next they say that creatures were "designed" with specific traits. In this classic book, R. C. Sproul and ... Read more

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  • Fermat's Enigma

    The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

    by Simon Singh ...
    xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wholeness of Nature

    Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature

    by Henri Bortoft ...
    Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Labyrinths of Reason

    Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge

    Edited by William Poundstone ...
    This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Infinite Ascent

    A Short History of Mathematics

    Series Book 22 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton’s Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure.Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history–and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated ... Read more

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  • Scientific Autobiography

    And Other Papers

    by Max Planck ...
    In this fascinating autobiography from one of the foremost geniuses of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in this volume were written for the general reader and make accessible Planck's scientific theories as well as his philosophical ideals, including his thoughts on ethics and morals. ... Read more

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  • Science's Blind Spot

    The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism

    Had evolutionists been in charge, they wouldn't have made the mosquito, planetary orbits would align perfectly, and the human eye would be better designed. But they tend to gloss over their own failed predictions and faulty premises. Naturalists see Darwin's theories as "logical" and that's enough. To think otherwise brands you a heretic to all things wise and rational.Science's Blind Spot takes ... Read more

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  • Activation of Energy

    Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy

    The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution.Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled, as he describes, "upward and outward."While energy wrongly directed appears as depression, drug addiction, ... Read more

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