Jon ElsterNuts and Bolts for the Social SciencesThis book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that...

Wade Rowland A road trip in France can be many things. This one involves a pair of precocious teenagers, a meditative author intent on imprinting some of the worthier aspects...

Alain de Botton"The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset of Alain de Botton's On Love, a hip, charming,...

Elliot Murphy This book explores aspects of human cognitive capacities and how they structure our knowledge of reality. It then discusses the political and economic structure of the West to...

Matthieu RicardDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche inspired Matthieu Ricard to create this anthology by telling him that “when we come to appreciate the depth of the view of the eight great traditions...

Kevin KellyOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic WorldOut of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems...

Richaed OsborneWhy does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive & dangerous? Why do a lot of people...

Werner HeisenbergNobel Prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is known for the development of quantum mechanics and the principle of indeterminacy. In Physics and Philosophy he explains how modern...

Werner HeisenbergThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern...

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred KuttnerIn trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found,...

Peter Kingsley"This book is a journey back to the source–not only of western civilization but, more importantly, to the source within you. Read it! To understand it is to be...

Noam Chomsky   Chomsky's linguistics work has revolutionized our understanding of language. These nontechnical Reflections consider the point & purpose of studying language, exploring some of the more general intellectual...