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  • This Will Make You Smarter

    150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 11 - Edge Question Series
    Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—scientific concepts to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • This Will Change Everything

    Ideas That Will Shape the Future

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 6 - Edge Question Series
    “This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelEditor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

    Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 2 - Edge Question Series
    Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.Steven Pinker on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

    The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 7 - Edge Question Series
    How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What We Believe but Cannot Prove

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 3 - Edge Question Series
    More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Universe

    Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 7 - Best of Edge Series
    John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees—to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor.In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Possible Minds

    Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

    Edited by John Brockman ...
    Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human."Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Are You Optimistic About?

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 5 - Edge Question Series
    The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This Idea Is Brilliant

    Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 23 - Edge Question Series
    Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative mindsWhat scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—The Guardian), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    Was $7.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD