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Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This text leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, via biographical stories, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to contemporary notions of hyperspace. It reveals simple questions that have been the hidden engines of major achievements in science and technology.
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | 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
Six Easy Pieces: TheFundamentals of Physics Explained by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, "Six Easy Pieces" reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the ge ...Show more
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why do crickets harmonize together in choruses on a summer night? What makes the moon spin precisely in sync with its orbit? Why do audiences clap simultaneously? What made the Millennium Bridge wobble? The answer in sync. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far-reaching drives in the univers ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Category: Science | 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 Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Mind of God by Paul C.W. Davies
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This sequel to God and the New Physics explores the fascinating questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man, prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature? And is the existence of intelligent life a random chance or in some sense an inevita ...Show more
The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An explanation of the various mysteries of pleasure in the workings of the mind. The book shows how different experiences give rise to similar sensations in the mind - such as sport, raves, or orgasm; explores the workings of recreational drugs; and explains the neurological character of pleasure. ...Show more
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find ...Show more
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