I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
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Category: Science & Nature
Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Godel, Escher Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity.
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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Category: Science & Nature
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transc ...Show more
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
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After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other-even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the ...Show more
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols
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Category: Science & Nature
Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Grounded in cutting- ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: Landscapes Ser.
From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...Show more
The Boundless Sea - A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
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Category: Science & Nature
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as w ...Show more
Small Gases, Big Effect: This Is Climate Change by David Nelles, Christian Serrer
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When students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book that explained the nuts and bolts of climate change in a way that was comprehensive, concise and enjoyable to read, they decided to write it themselves. With meticulous research corroborated by over 100 scientists, Small Gases, Big ...Show more
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem
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Here are some facts - Women live longer than men. Women have stronger immune systems. They are less likely to suffer from learning and developmental disabilities, and are better at fighting cancer and surviving famine. Women are simply stronger than men at every stage of life, though we are taught the o ...Show more
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality by Anthony Aguirre
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Category: Science & Nature
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from Japan to Italy ...Show more
The Rag and Bone Shop - A Book about Mind, Memory and Medicine by Veronica O'Keane
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Category: Science & Nature
A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. A process that shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our b ...Show more
Novacene: Coming Age by James Lovelock
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James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. ...Show more