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  • The Knowledge Machine

    How Irrationality Created Modern Science

    de Michael Strevens ...
    A paradigm-shifting, widely acclaimed work for our generation, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Michael Strevens’s “provocative and fascinating” (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long for the human race to start using science to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Thinking Off Your Feet

    How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy

    de Michael Strevens ...
    Many philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of their armchairs, simply by reflecting on the nature of things. But how can the mind arrive at substantive knowledge of the world without seeking its input? Michael Strevens proposes an original defense of the armchair pursuit of philosophical knowledge, focusing on “the method of cases,” in which judgments about ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Tychomancy

    Inferring Probability from Causal Structure

    de Michael Strevens ...
    Tychomancy—meaning “the divination of chances”—presents a set of rules for inferring the physical probabilities of outcomes from the causal or dynamic properties of the systems that produce them. Probabilities revealed by the rules are wide-ranging: they include the probability of getting a 5 on a die roll, the probability distributions found in statistical physics, and the probabilities that ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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    The Knowledge Machine

    How Irrationality Created Modern Science

    de Michael Strevens ...
    Narrado por Julian Elfer ...

    Completo

    8 hora 16 minutos

    A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Captivatingly written, interwoven with historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    Rush

    Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father

    de Stephen Fried ...
    Narrado por John H. Mayer ...

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    22 hora 18 minutos

    The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding FathersFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARBy the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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    Dark Places of the Earth

    The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

    de Jonathan M. Bryant ...
    Narrado por Tom Zingarelli ...

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    10 hora 58 minutos

    A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant--and long-forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history. In 1820, the slave ship Antelope was captured off the Florida coast. Though the slave trade was prohibited, slavery was still legal in half of the United States, and it was left to the Supreme Court to determine whether nearly 300 Africans on board were ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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    William Tecumseh Sherman

    In the Service of My Country: A Life

    de James Lee McDonough ...
    Narrado por David Drummond ...

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    28 hora 33 minutos

    General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family. As a soldier, Sherman evolved from ... Leer más

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    Nature's Mutiny

    How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

    de Philipp Blom ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Keeble ...

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    10 hora 32 minutos

    An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe.Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost ... Leer más

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    Galaxy Girls

    50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space

    de Libby Jackson ...
    Narrado por Michelle Ford ...

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    3 hora 7 minutos

    A groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today—including Hidden Figure’s Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative ... Leer más

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    Revolutionary Summer

    The Birth of American Independence

    de Joseph J. Ellis ...
    Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki ...

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    7 hora 5 minutos

    A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to ... Leer más

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    Grant's Final Victory

    Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year

    de Charles Bracelen Flood ...
    Narrado por Michael Prichard ...

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    8 hora 14 minutos

    Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin.As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain, the American public became aware of this race between Grant's writing and his fatal illness. Twenty years ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin in London

    The British Life of America's Founding Father

    de George Goodwin ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    An "enthralling" chronicle of the nearly two decades the statesman, scientist, inventor, and Founding Father spent in the British imperial capital (BBC Radio 4, Book of the Week).For more than a fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain's most esteemed intellectuals—including David Hume, Joseph ... Leer más

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