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Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Can machines think? Do animals have beliefs? These questions & many others are answered in this new collection of Dennett's essays from 1984 to 1996. He details variously with philosophy of mind, Artificial Intelligence, ethology & animal psychology.
Bully for Brontosaurus - Further reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the g ...Show more
Eight Little Piggies - Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. for millennia, the animals that popu ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
In The Beginning by John Gribbin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Superforce - The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature by Paul Davies
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Many scientists believe we are on the verge of a Theory of Everything - a complete unification of all the fundamental forces and particles of nature. In this book, the physicist and author Paul Davies gives an account of the quest for a superforce that will explain how the physical universe is put toget ...Show more
The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity by John D. Barrow
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good
In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to certain pat ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good
Richard Dawkins's brilliant and controversial book has become a landmark account. Here he vividly demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we ex ...Show more
The Challenge of Pain by Ronald Melzack; Patrick D. Wall
$12.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A synthesis of unifying ideas arising from quantum theory, the theory of computation, epistemology and the theory of evolution, this book explores the deep connections between the progress of knowledge of the world and the process of change in the world itself.