philosophy

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson provides twelve rules for conduct of life.

Collects forty-two career-spanning essays, polemics, and paeans by Richard Dawkins with newly annotated essays that investigate issues that include bad science, religion in schools, climate-change, and more.

"... internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world that underlies reality -- and how we find our place within it"--Jacket flap.

An analysis of the purpose of work in people's lives demonstrates how work operates in American culture and how everyday people can find happiness in the workplace, explaining the importance of career goals.

A cancer researcher examines cases from his career to determine whether medicine is a science and identifies the three key principles that govern medicine.

An introduction to sociology, covering theories, sociologists, and important issues such as gender, identity, welfare, consumerism, and more.

Discusses the impact Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman had on the public schools of the United States, describing their roles as mission-driven reformers, and examining how public education will change in the twenty-first century.

The author argues that life on distant planets may be more familiar than alien due to how the laws of physics constrain the evolutionary process, making the evolutionary outcome predictable. He also asserts that life forms are guided by a limited set of rules resulting in a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence.