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  • Predicting Our Climate Future

    What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know

    This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others. Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The subject is important for society but the science is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

    Scientific Habits of Mind

    Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An "important and timely" book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic ( Library Journal).We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can't tell the difference.As a result, an avalanche of misinformation ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chaos

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world - from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and even ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Primacy of Doubt

    From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World

    by Tim Palmer ...
    “Quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read” (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable us to find new answers to modern science's most pressing questionsWhy does your weather app say “There’s a 10% chance of rain” instead of “It will be sunny tomorrow”? In large part this is due to the insight of Tim Palmer, who ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984-2019

    Series series Compass
    Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quark & the Jaguar

    Adventures in the Simple & the Complex

    The Santa Fe Institute celebrates one of its founders with a new edition of a seminal work by the late Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann. Originally published in 1994, The Quark & the Jaguar spans the simple and the complex, examining the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world. Neither autobiography nor strictly scientific treatise, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Escape from Model Land

    How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

    Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limitsWhether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world around us every day. But models aren’t a mirror of reality. In fact, they are fantasies, where everything works out perfectly, every time. And ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Crude Look at the Whole

    The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society

    A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challengesImagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Art of Physics

    How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life

    Can physics change your life? It already has."What does complex system theory teach us about getting fired? How does the study of subatomic particles help us predict elections? In his insightful and entertaining new book, Zahaan Bharmal applies lessons from physics to identify elegant explanations for our messy world."—Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quantum Economics

    The New Science of Money

    by David Orrell ...
    A decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along.Economics sees itself as the science of scarcity. Instead, it should be the science of money (which plays a surprisingly small role in mainstream theory). And money is a substance that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus