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Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Can machines think? Do animals have beliefs? These questions & many others are answered in this new collection of Dennett's essays from 1984 to 1996. He details variously with philosophy of mind, Artificial Intelligence, ethology & animal psychology.
Cats Paws and Catapults by Steven Vogel
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Human designers love right angles, but nature prefers to be round and curved; we like to be dry, whereas nature tends to be wet; we use wheels in diverse ways, but nature's only true wheels occur in bacteria. This text introduces us to the world of biomechanics and explains how physical law and historic ...Show more
Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
Category: Non-Fiction | 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.
Evolution in Mind - An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology by Henry Plotkin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Mind" vividly demonstrates how an evolutionary perspective helps us understand what we are, and how we got that way.
Feynman Lectures on Gravitation by Richard Phillips Feynman; Fernando B. Morinigo; William G. Wagner; Brian Hatfield (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physi ...Show more
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter; Fluid Analogies Research Group (Contribution by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"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
In Search of the Big Bang - The Life and Death of the Universe by John Gribbin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Where do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and traces the historical path which has led physicists to an ...Show more
Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
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 Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
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