What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

john-brockman

Harpercollins

Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science (Best of Edge Series)

Harper-perennial

What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence (Edge Question)

This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know (Edge Question)

The Last Unknowns Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life

Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M. Sapolsky. Each writer attempts to identify that moment or those influences in his or her youth which triggered the determination to become a scientist. Was there a particular event or set of circumstances? To what extent did parents, peers of teachers contribute? Why mathematics rather than psychology; why biology rather than physics? What were the turning points, mistakes, epiphanies? Personal, passionate, revealing, enthralling, Curious Minds tells as much about life as it does about science.

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage Books USA

The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years

Science & Math

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

<p>Over the last fifty years, a bewildering number of scientific achievements (from Dolly the sheep, the first animal successfully cloned from an adult cell, to the discovery of planets outside our own solar system) have impacted on, and shifted out perception of our view of ourselves, our world and our place in it. What, one might wonder, does the future have in store for us? As we edge our way into the twenty-first century developments in many fields, and the controversy that sometimes surrounds them, affect the lives of everyone on this planet. The Next Fifty Years features a glittering panel of some of the world's leading scientists, brought together to discuss the future of science - and its implications. These twenty-five never-before-published essays, whose authors include Sir Martin Rees, Lee Smolin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Davies and Ian Stewart, address the big questions. How will developments in science affect us? How will these advances change our understanding of who and what we are? What can we expect to happen in specific fields and how might these achievements influence and cut across other disciplines? Which current expectations can we expect to be realised, and which ones won't be? What will scientists be thinking about fifty years from now? Written for both a scientific and popular audience, this stimulating, fascinating and sometimes startling book covers topics as diverse as disease, depression, artificial intelligence, theoretical physics and extraterrestrial life. A series of 'intellectual adventures', The Next Fifty Years addresses the future in theory and in practice as well as examining the social and political ramifications of the strange new world to come.</p>

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century

History & Philosophy

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Real Time 1: A Catalog of Ideas and Information

Edward Rosenfeld

Anchor Press/Doubleday

Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today’s leading thinkers—to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.

This Will Make You Smarter

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Black Swan.

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