Albert Einstein: Citizen of the World
Philadelphia: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Jewish Publication Society, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo., 181 pp.
Philadelphia: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Jewish Publication Society, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo., 181 pp.
New Paltz: Codhill, 2017. Softcover. 8vo., 128 pp. Explores various aspects of the enneagram, the symbol that G.I. Gurdjieff introduced to the modern world, which he stated represented a complete description of the laws governing the universe and how they relate to modern mathematical and scientific descriptions of the laws.....
New York: Basic, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo., 304 pp. A look at the enduring sexism within the scientific community and what women are doing to change it.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo., 286 pp. Bibliography, index.
New York: Norton, 2019. Hardcover. 8vo. Graziano traces the evolution of the mind over millions of years with examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention and then to construct awareness of the external world and of the self.
New York: Basic, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo., 173 pp. An accessible simplification of a theory that explains the genesis of the universe in six numbers.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo., 200 pp. 74 line illustrations, 2 tables. Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac Newton. This book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and the Bose-Einstein condensate. It traces.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. 8vo., Shows how genomics is transforming the social sciencesÑand how social scientists are integrating both nature and nurture into a unified, comprehensive understanding of human behavior at both the individual and society-wide levels. Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo., 199 pp. Here Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in the field since 1991 as well as recent theoretical challenges.
New York: Times Books, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo., 250 pp.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo., 214 pp. Bibliography, Index. Explores how mathematics can explain such events as the O.J. Simpson verdict and the errors undermining the infamous "Bell Curve," and introduces a little-known woman without whom the theory of relativity never would have worked.
New York: Basic/Perseus, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo., 231 pp. Bibliographical notes, glossary. An accessible overview of attempts to build a final "theory of everything," explaining in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from loops, strings, and black holes and tells the stories behind.....
New York: Viking, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo., 258 pp. Describes the commonalities in the scientific methods pioneered by Einstein and Freud, citing how their applications of non-traditional methods founded the sciences of cosmology and psychoanalysis.