7 Best physics books like The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs

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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

By: Heinrich Päs

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A particle physicist makes the scientific case for monism, the ancient idea about the universe that…

If you liked the physics plot in The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

By: Tamim Ansary

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more

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2. 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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3. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more

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4. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

By: Sam Harris

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more

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5. Creative Evolution

By: Henri Bergson

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically. If.… read more

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6. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
"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

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7. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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8. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

By: Thomas Hertog

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more

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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"

-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

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9. Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

By: Ryan A. Bush

4.22

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological Software Neuropsycholog… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell somewhere on the endless continuum of musical mastery by the end of his …"

-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

"Psychitecture is a high-level design and implementation process - creative problem-solving for the subjective experience - and when utilized persistently, it can take a mind that is like a prison and…"

-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

"Societal pressures work to pull you up to the line of psychological adequacy, and psychotherapy can be used when society falls short. But these aims are far too low. Falling within the current normal…"

-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

"The way your mind is structured will determine the person you will become, the life you will live, and the fulfillment you will realize. When you modify your mind, you make changes to the operating s…"

-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

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10. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self

By: Jay L. Garfield

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

By: Nicholas Humphrey

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's l… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • science
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12. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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13. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

By: Erik Hoel

3.68

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more

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  • physics
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14. A Spy Like Me (Double O, #2)

By: Kim Sherwood

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terro… read more

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15. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered: My Years as a Nun book and Heinrich Päs's The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

  • nonfiction
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16. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

By: Karen Armstrong

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. The Experience Machine

By: Andy Clark

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more

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  • philosophy
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18. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

By: Neil Theise

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more

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  • science
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19. Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

By: George Musser

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory exploration of why a "theory of everything" is likely to depend on a theory of mind. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

By: Heinrich Päs

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A particle physicist makes the scientific case for monism, the ancient idea about the universe that… read more

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  • science
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21. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

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Carlo Rovelli

4.10

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Thomas Hertog

4.08

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4.22

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Daniel C. Dennett

3.90

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Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Anil Seth

4.10

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3.86

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