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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
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Product Description: Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge...read more
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9780062109392 | Original edition (Perennial, February 14, 2012), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind.

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The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness
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Product Description: Who am “I”? How is happiness achieved? What is the key to memory? How do babies become adults? Is personality determined? What function do emotions serve? Are we hardwired to be moral? The mind is a riddle that has vexed philosophers, psychologists, biologists, and artists for thousands of years...read more
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9780062025845 | Perennial, August 16, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Who am “I”?

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Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology
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Product Description: Why do civilizations rise and fall? What are the origins and purpose of art? How does technology shape society? Did culture direct human evolution? Is the Internet an agent of democracy or dictatorships? An immensely powerful but little-understood force that impacts society, art, politics, and even human biological development, culture is the very stage on which human experience plays out...read more
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9780062023131 | Perennial, August 16, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Why do civilizations rise and fall?

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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
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Product Description: How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds...read more
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9780062020444 | Perennial, January 18, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: How is the internet changing the way you think?

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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
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Product Description: "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most influential minds. Exhilarating, visionary, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating, their responses provide an eye-opening road map of our near future...read more
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9780061899676 | Perennial, December 22, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?

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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
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Product Description: Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates...read more
By John Brockman (editor) and Brian Eno (introduced by)
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9780061686542 | Perennial, January 1, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.

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El nuevo humanismo/ The New Humanists: Y las fronteras de la ciencia/ Science At the Edge
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Product Description: Some of the top scientists of today—the geographer Jared Diamond, the linguist Steven Pinker, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Marvin Minsky, Lee Smolin, among others—discuss the unique contributions each is making to the development of modern thought...read more
By John Brockman (editor) and Salvador Paniker (introduced by)
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9788472456440 | Italian edition edition (Karios Editorial Sa, June 1, 2008), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Some of the top scientists of today—the geographer Jared Diamond, the linguist Steven Pinker, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Marvin Minsky, Lee Smolin, among others—discuss the unique contributions each is making to the development of modern thought.

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Science at the Edge: Conversations With the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today
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Product Description: As founder, editor, and publisher of the intellectual forum www.edge.org, John Brockman is well-positioned to initiate and cultivate an ongoing dialogue with today’s leading cutting-edge thinkers.  The website is a virtual salon for every type of intellectual and scientific pursuit, from evolutionary biology and quantum physics, to crowd psychology and miniaturized computing...read more
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9781402754500 | Updated edition (Union Square Pr, May 6, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: As founder, editor, and publisher of the intellectual forum www.

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What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
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In a provocative series of essays, 150 of the world's leading scientific thinkers--including Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson--share their hopeful visions for the future as they address such topics as the global spread of higher education, finding the genes that cause mental illness, and finding a cure for war. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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9780061436932 | Perennial, November 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a provocative series of essays, 150 of the world's leading scientific thinkers--including Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, J.

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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
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A collection of essays by some of the world's leading scientists describes ideas and advances that could have devastating repercussions in terms of both their use and philosophical implications, ranging from using medication to change personality to examining a universe in which we are completely alone. Original. 40,000 first printing.
By John Brockman (editor), Richard Dawkins (other contributor) and Steven Pinker (introduced by)
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9780061214950 | Perennial, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of essays by some of the world's leading scientists describes ideas and advances that could have devastating repercussions in terms of both their use and philosophical implications, ranging from using medication to change personality to examining a universe in which we are completely alone.

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My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
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A thought-provoking compilation of essays marking the centennial of Einstein's theory of special relativity brings together papers by such contributors as Leonard Susskind, Janna Levin, Lee Smolin, Frank J. Tipler, and others on such topics as the Einstein myth, his influence on the world of modern-day physics, and his impact on their personal and professional lives. Reprint.
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9780375423451 | Pantheon Books, July 25, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays marking the centennial of Einstein's special theory of relativity include contributions from Leonard Susskind, Janna Levin, Lee Smolin, and others on such topics as the Einstein myth and his influence on modern physics.

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9781400079506 | 1 reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 14, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A thought-provoking compilation of essays marking the centennial of Einstein's theory of special relativity brings together papers by such contributors as Leonard Susskind, Janna Levin, Lee Smolin, Frank J.

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Intelligent Thought: Science Versus The Intelligent Design Movement
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Fifteen preeminent scientists and scholars explore the power and fact of evolution and the wonders of scientific study in a collection of essays that includes contributions by psychologist Steven Pinker, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, physicist Lisa Randall, philosopher Daniel C Dennett, genomic researcher J. Craig Venter, and others. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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9780307277220 | Vintage Books, May 9, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explores the theory of Creationism and the implications of evolution in a collection of essays that includes contributions by such scientists as psychologist Steven Pinker, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, and genomic researcher J.

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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's leading thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
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In a provocative series of essays, more than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers--including Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Martin Rees, and others both in and outside the world of science--reveal what they believe despite a current lack of supporting evidence about such topics as the future of humankind, the fate of the universe, extraterrestrial life, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780060841812 | Perennial, March 1, 2006, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: In a series of essays, more than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers--including Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, and Freeman Dyson--reveal what they believe despite a current lack of supporting evidence about such topics as the future of humankind, the fate of the universe, and extraterrestrial life.

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Curious Minds: How A Child Becomes a Scientist
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In a collection of incisive essays, twenty-seven of the world's leading scientists--including Robert Sapolsky, Lee Smolin, Mary Catherine Bateson, Janna Levin, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson, and others--reflect on the key moments, experiences, and events in their childhoods that first set them on the course of pursuing a scientific career. Reprint. 20,000 f irst printing.
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9780375422911 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven scientists write about their earliest inspirations and the childhood events that motivated them to become scientists.

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9781400076864 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 13, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a collection of incisive essays, twenty-seven of the world's leading scientists--including Robert Sapolsky, Lee Smolin, Mary Catherine Bateson, Janna Levin, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson, and others--reflect on the key moments, experiences, and events in their childhoods that first set them on the course of pursuing a scientific career.

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9781417757381 | Turtleback Books, September 13, 2005, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
Product Description: A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a continuing human presence on Mars...read more
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9780753817100, titled "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty First Century" | New edition (Orion Pub Co, November 6, 2003), cover price $15.85 | About this edition: A look at what science might, and might not, be able to do for us in the first half of the 21st century.
9780375713422 | Vintage Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Collects twenty-five essays by top visionary scientists on the advances that may be anticipated in the next half century, making predictions about what such accomplishments will mean to everyday society and human beliefs about life and its origins.

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9781435296701 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 1, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.

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The New Humanists: Science at the Edge
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Product Description: When John Brockman’s essay, “The New Humanists” appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, EDGE (www.edge.org), he received a record number of responses from the intellectuals of the EDGE community. In his essay, Brockman noted that the American intellectual had become proudly or defiantly ignorant of major scientific accomplishments...read more
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9780760745298 | Barnes & Noble, September 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When John Brockman’s essay, “The New Humanists” appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, EDGE (www.

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La Tercera Cultura
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By John Brockman
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9788472239548 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $37.50

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Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years
Product Description: What was the greatest invention of the past 2,000 years, and why? This provocative question was posed to some of the world's foremost scientific and creative thinkers, including several Nobel laureates. Their answers may surprise you...read more
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9780756764531 | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What was the greatest invention of the past 2,000 years, and why?
9780684859989, titled "The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years" | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Contributors from a variety of fields offer their views of the most important discoveries of the last two millennia--and some earlier ones that bore fruit more recently--including social and philosophical changes as well as scientific and technological inventions

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How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind
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Essays discuss science, the origin of the universe, evolution, the mind, communication, symmetry, and the future of the human species
By John Brockman (editor) and Katinka Matson (editor)
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9780688133566 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss science, the origin of the universe, evolution, the mind, communication, symmetry, and the future of the human species

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9780688149512 | Quill, December 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss science, the origin of the universe, evolution, the mind, communication, symmetry, and the future of the human species

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Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite
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Offers profiles of influential individuals involved in the shaping of the internet, telecommunications, and multimedia, and shares their views on the future (view table of contents)
By John Brockman
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9781888869040 | Hardwired, October 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers profiles of influential individuals involved in the shaping of the internet, telecommunications, and multimedia, and shares their views on the future

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The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
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Product Description: Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture" that would bridge the gap, it is only recently that science has changed the intellectual landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780684803593 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Providing an analysis of the intellectual culture of today that has science--not literature or philosophy--at its center, a guide to the latest scientific theories and research is also a provocative discussion of the predominance of science.

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9780684823447 | Touchstone Books, May 7, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Thirty-five years ago, C.

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The Third Culture
By John Brockman
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9780025163911 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
9780025163911 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95

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Creativity
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Product Description: Leading scientists, educators, and other intellectuals explore the most mysterious of human capabilities. In 10 pieces commissioned especially for this book, today's most innovative thinkers examine such topics as the role of creativity in scientific inquiry, the relationship between evolution and the mental process of creativity, and the aesthetic experience of creative work...read more
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9780671789268 | Touchstone Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Leading scientists, educators, and other intellectuals explore the most mysterious of human capabilities.

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Ways of Knowing
Essays discuss literacy, elitism, failure, the media, time, linguistics, education of the future, memory, fiction, and history
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9780135172360 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1991, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss literacy, elitism, failure, the media, time, linguistics, education of the future, memory, fiction, and history

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Doing Science
Thirteen essays deal with topics in the applied and theoretical sciences, by such authors as Kevin Kelly, Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margolis, and others
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9780137950973 | Reprint edition (Prentice Hall Direct, January 1, 1991), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Thirteen essays deal with topics in the applied and theoretical sciences, by such authors as Kevin Kelly, Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margolis, and others

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