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  • The Meaning of the Twentieth Century

    The Great Transition

    by Kenneth Boulding ...
    Series series World Perspectives
    Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century ‘post-civilisation’ into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies. New conditions pointed to a life of ease but also ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Evolution, Order and Complexity

    by Kenneth Boulding, Elias Khalil ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This is done by introducing the general system theory to ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    The Surrender of Culture to Technology

    by Neil Postman ...
    **A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death."A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News**The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support ... Read more

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  • This Idea Must Die

    Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 17 - Edge Question Series
    The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a ... Read more

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  • Nonzero

    The Logic of Human Destiny

    by Robert Wright ...
    In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a ... Read more

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  • The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions

    Enjoying Life without Illusions

    by Alex Rosenberg ...
    A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life.We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... Read more

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  • The Technological Society

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens ... Read more

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  • Defiant Earth

    The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the ... Read more

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  • What is Marxism?

    by Alan Woods, Rob Sewell, Karl Marx ...
    In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever‑growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an increasingly attractive proposition to millions of workers and young people around the world. The old mole of revolution, to use Karl Marx's own phrase, is burrowing deep into the foundations of society.Marxism — or scientific socialism — is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl ... Read more

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  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    by J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... Read more

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  • The Ecology of Law

    Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

    by Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei ...
    Winner, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Politics/Current Events: A systems theorist and a legal scholar present a new paradigm for protecting our planet.This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other—until recently. In the past few decades, science has shifted from ... Read more

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