philosophy

Maps on endpapers.

"[Argues that] modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in uncharted territories, full of wrong turns, false findings, and the occasional remarkable success ... [Also shows] that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors--and that this is a good thing!"--Provided by publisher.

The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the past, present, and possible future of the progressive education movement.

Bill Nye examines evolution and related topics and issues, such as race, genetically modified foods, and new species.

This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

Shows how the universe is shaped by hidden symmetries; examines core physics concepts in a fun way, and includes why it is dark at night, where time comes from, about gravity and spin, and more.

Examines the impact that the future of artificial intelligence could have as super-intelligence machines would be able to become smarter and faster on their own, and possibly be catastrophic to humanity.

"In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the b?echamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard"--From publisher description.