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daniel r altschuler

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  • Last Call

    Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron and Our Escape to Another Planet

    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned throughout his ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Women of the Moon

    Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage

    Philosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, had stains. The agreed solution was that, like a mirror, it reflected the imperfect Earth. Today we smile, but it was a clever way to understand the Moon in a manner that was consistent with the beliefs of their age. The Moon is no longer the "in" thing. We see it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality.Is the w... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Everything

    How New Ideas Emerge

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street JournalThe New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of It All

    Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

    Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him -- how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a wonderful book -- based on a previously unpublished, three-part public lecture he gave at the University of Washington in 1963 -- shows us this other ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Critical Mass

    How One Thing Leads to Another

    by Philip Ball ...
    "A wide-ranging and dazzlingly informed book about the science of interactions. I can promise you'll be amazed." —Bill Bryson, chair of the 2005 Aventis General Prize Judging PanelWinner of the Aventis Prize for Science BooksAre there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The War on Science

    Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

    by Shawn Otto ...
    **An "insightful" and in-depth look at anti-science politics and its deadly results (Maria Konnikova, New York Times–bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff).Thomas Jefferson said, "Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they aren't?From climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense, we are ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moral Arc

    How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom

    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Believing Brains explores how science makes us better people.From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Playing with Reality

    How Games Have Shaped Our World

    by Kelly Clancy ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

    Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 4 - Edge Question Series
    The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Science

    A Four Thousand Year History

    by Patricia Fara ...
    Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD