Beyond Weird
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
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1. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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- philosophy
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2. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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- popular science
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3. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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4. La vida secreta de la mente: Nuestro cerebro cuando decidimos, sentimos y pensamos
By: Mariano Sigman
3.87
Format: 515 pages,
?Es mejor confiar en la razon o en las corazonadas cuando tomamos decisiones? ?Es posible leer la m… read more
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5. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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- history
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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
6. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
By: Nick Lane
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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9. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
10. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
11. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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12. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
13. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
14. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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15. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
By: Adam Becker
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more
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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
16. Beyond Weird
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin… read more
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"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
17. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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18. Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
By: Michael G. Raymer
3.97
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and wi… read more
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19. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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20. At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials)
By: Dan Hooper
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang--and how research into these moments continu… read more
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"Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is."-Dan Hooper, At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials)
"Unlike people from any other time in history, we know what we are looking at when we look up upon the night sky."-Dan Hooper, At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials)
"That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable."-Dan Hooper, At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials)
"Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining."-Dan Hooper, At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (Science Essentials)
21. Quantum Entanglement
By: Jed Brody
3.82
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumption… read more
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