John Brockman

Culture: The World's Leading Scientists Explain the Birth of Culture, the Fall of Civilizations, the Rules of Social Networks, (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780062023131

"A short, cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about culture. Edited by John Brockman, with contributions by the world's leading thinkers"--...more details
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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781400076864

"What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
"-For Robert Sapolsky-Stanford professor of biology-it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.
-Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein's work...more details
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Curious Minds: How A Child Becomes A Scientist (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780099469469

"When We Were Kids" is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C Dennett...more details
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GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE LAST 2000 YEA (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780684859989

What was the greatest invention of the past 2,000 years, and why? This provocative question was posed to some of the world's foremost scientific and creative thinkers...more details
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Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780297645757

Literary agent John Brockman challenged the array of scientists that he hosts on his website by asking: "What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?". This book provides a showcase for more than a hundred of their responses...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:192

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How A Child Becomes A Scientist (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780375422911

A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the world's most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths that would define their lives...more details
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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780857892454

A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought....more details
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How Things Are (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780753807767

Some of the world's leading scientists have contributed original pieces - an elementary idea, a basic concept, a tool for thought - relevant to their field...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:312

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How Things Are (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781857997378

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Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780307277220

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin's theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny...more details
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: Ideas on the Future of Consciousness (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780062020444

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...more details
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My Einstein (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781400079506

In this fascinating volume, today's foremost scientists discuss their own versions and visions of Einstein: how he has influenced their worldviews...more details
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Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781417709427

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Pearling Days (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780859054881

The pearling voyage of the 'Sarah' to the North West and Kimberley in 1889 and 1881, with an appendix on the death of W.H. Lowe during an expedition north east of the Gascoyne in late 1881...more details
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Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781402754500

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The Mind: The World's Leading Scientists Explain the Brain, Memory, Consciousness, Identity, and More (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780062025845

"A short, cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about the mind. Edited by John Brockman, with contributions by the world's leading scientists"--...more details
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The Next Fifty Years (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780753817100

From brain transplants to parallel universes, a dazzling array of scientists look at what the next fifty years may hold, perched as we currently are on the cutting edge where science meets science fiction. From Dolly the sheep to the human Genome Project...more details
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The Next Fifty Years (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780297829256

Over the last fifty years, a bewildering number of scientific achievements (from Dolly the sheep, the first animal successfully cloned from an adult cell...more details
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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780375713422

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The Third Culture (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780684823447

Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand...more details
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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780061899676

"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"

This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org...more details
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This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780062109392

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, "This Will Make You Smarter" presents brilliant--but accessible--ideas to expand every mind.

"What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" This is the question John Brockman...more details
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What Are You Optimistic About? (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781847371003

In 2007 the leading online forum for scientists and thinkers, www.edge.org, issued its third annual question: 'What are you optimistic about...more details
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What Are You Optimistic About? (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781847391292

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What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780061436932

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...more details
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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780061686542

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 were brilliant...more details
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781416526858

The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical...more details
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780743295536

The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical...more details
Format:Other book format  Pages:288

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WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780743275927

"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?". This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate about all aspects of science...more details
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WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9781416522614

"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate about all aspects of science...more details
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What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Book)

John Brockman

ISBN:9780060841812

More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof

Scientific theory...more details
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Commodore Robert F. Stockton, 1795-1866: Protean Man for a Protean Nation (Book)

R John Brockmann

ISBN:9781604976304

Stockton first made his reputation as "Fighting Bob" in the defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812, and, on his first naval command, he founded Liberia for freed slaves. Yet he also owned slaves on his sugar plantation in Georgia...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:646

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Science at the Edge (Book)

John Brockman et al

ISBN:9780297607755

Who are the cutting-edge thinkers of today? John Brockman argues that scientists - through their research and writing - are creating a 'third culture' in which the word "humanism" is once more defined in terms of the 15th century idea of one intellectual whole. Combining this holistic awareness of the humanities and science...more details
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Book)

John Brockman;Steven Dawkins RichardPinker

ISBN:9780061214950

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 dangerous not because they are assumed to be false...more details
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Greatest Inventions of the Last 2000 Years (Book)

John (ed) Brockman

ISBN:9780753811283

The editor and literary agent John Brockman recently challenged the salon of scientists that he hosts on his website by asking: 'What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?' Not content to be merely right...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (Book)

Brockman John

ISBN:9780857892461

A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought....more details
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