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Evolution for Everyone
Evolution for Everyone
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385340922
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $15.00

What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?


These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
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Evolution for Everyone
Evolution for Everyone
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385340212
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson


Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00

What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?


These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Evolution for Everyone
Evolution for Everyone
Written by David Sloan Wilson
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ISBN: 9780440336808
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson


Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $15.00

What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?


These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
On the Integration of Nature
On the Integration of Nature
Written by Richard Grossinger
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556436031
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On the Integration of Nature
Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes
Written by Richard Grossinger


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2005
Price: $15.95

This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures of science, religion, and all other forms of ideology. Author Richard Grossinger dazzlingly blends narrative memoir, short science fiction... Read more >
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by Harold Dowse, Foreword by John Upledger
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556434198
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Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
How the Universe Makes Life
Written by Richard Grossinger
Preface by Harold Dowse
Foreword by John Upledger


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2003
Price: $24.95

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought up by Embryogenesis, including: the relationship between thermodynamics/entropy and the emergence of life; a speculative set of embryogenic principles for all... Read more >
Quantum Questions
Quantum Questions
Edited by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781570627682
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Quantum Questions
Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
Edited by Ken Wilber


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95

Here is collection of writings that bridges the gap between science and religion. Quantum Questions collects the mystical writings of each of the major physicists involved in the discovery of quantum physics and relativity, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Max Planck. The selections are written in nontechnical language and... Read more >
Within Reason
Within Reason
Written by Donald Calne
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375703225
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Within Reason
Rationality and Human Behavior
Written by Donald Calne


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $14.00

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?

In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B... Read more >
The Tao of Physics
The Tao of Physics
Written by Fritjof Capra
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781570625190
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The Tao of Physics

Written by Fritjof Capra


Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $16.95

After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since the book's first publication, discusses criticisms the book has... Read more >
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