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“A landmark in our understanding of human development.”
ーPaul Harris, author of Trusting What You’re Told
“Magisteria……続きを見る
Today, the language of science is English. But the dominance of this particular language is a relatively recent phenomenon - and far from a foregone conclusion.
In a sweeping history that takes us f……続きを見る
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public.……続きを見る
著者:Ian Hacking
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2000年11月15日
Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A the……続きを見る
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Comfort Crisis asks: Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can’t we ever get enough?
“Reveals the biolog……続きを見る
'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times
'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno
'Be prepared to re-……続きを見る
著者:Carl Zimmer
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2021年03月18日
'Profound, lyrical, and fascinating, Life’s Edge will give you a newfound appreciation for life itself. It is the work of a master science writer at the height of his skills.' – Ed Yong, author of A……続きを見る
Artificial Psychology (AP) is a highly multidisciplinary field of study in psychology. AP tries to solve problems which occur when psychologists do research and need a robust analysis method. Conven……続きを見る
A deep dive into the social mind-brain, examining the processes we share with other social animals and illuminating those that are uniquely human.
What Makes Us Social? is a scholarly but accessible……続きを見る
Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. But do we have to choose between these options? In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it i……続きを見る
For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ou……続きを見る
Updated and revised throughout, this new edition of The Science of Soccer applies scientific analysis to football, giving us the answers to questions like "what's the chance of a team that wins the ……続きを見る
著者:Philip Ball
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2022年06月23日
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human?
Taking……続きを見る
An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, which feeds a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG.
In this book, David Lightfoot argue……続きを見る
著者:Philip Goff
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2019年11月05日
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousnessーpanpsychism.
Understanding how brains produce consciousness ……続きを見る
'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York Times
A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates ca……続きを見る
F-M FACS 5.0 is the pioneering and revolutionary creation of the most powerful and consensual instrument to scientifically measure and understand emotion in the human face, defends Prof. Freitas-Mag……続きを見る
During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and eve……続きを見る
Segundo o biólogo Rupert Sheldrake, quanto mais frequente um fenômeno, mais provável ele é. Ele chama esse processo de ressonância mórfica: as formas e os comportamentos de organismos no passado inf……続きを見る
In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experi……続きを見る
著者:Vinciane Despret
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2016年05月15日
“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Kosso
出版社: World Scientific Publishing Company
発売日: 2020年03月05日
'This book offers an excellent explanation of the scientific method and its use, through case studies from astronomy, physics, and philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division unde……続きを見る
Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it seeks answers to long-standing unsolved questions: How……続きを見る
Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as 'The Origin of Species'. It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it w……続きを見る
著者:Randall Munroe
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2015年11月24日
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to ……続きを見る
Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily ha……続きを見る
“Bryson is as amusing as ever….As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, [Seeing Further]it is a worthy tribute.”
ーThe Economist
In Seeing Further, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson take……続きを見る