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Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Best of Edge Series
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times, on This Will Change Everything Launchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor JohnB ...Show more
Know This - Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas and Discoveries by John Brockman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Edge Question Ser.
The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our und ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI by John Brockman (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
"Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time- Good AI versus evil AI."--John BrockmanMore than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ...Show more
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Series: Best of Edge Series
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange Everything Markingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,edit ...Show more
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Best of Edge Series | Reading Level: General Adult
Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and ...Show more
This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful, And Elegant Theories Of How The World Works by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Edge Question Series
In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to b ...Show more
This Idea Must Die - Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (ed.)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Edge Question Series | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Edge Question Series
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most influential minds. Exhilarating, visionary, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating, their responses provide a ...Show more
This Will Make You Smarter - New scientific concepts to improve your thinking by John Brockman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, ...Show more
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Edge Question Series
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 are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, so ...Show more
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Edge Question Series
The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives--for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds d ...Show more