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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
By John Brockman (editor)

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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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Product Description: Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M...read more

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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.

Paperback:

9780099592877 | Vintage Uk, November 5, 2013, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C.
9781400076864 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 13, 2005), cover price $16.00 | 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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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)

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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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Thirteen essays deal with topics in the applied and theoretical sciences, by such authors as Kevin Kelly, Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margolis, and others
By John Brockman (editor)

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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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A comprehensive, thought-provoking survey of new scientific theories and technologies and a dramatic portrait of the new universe that modern science is creating

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9780670804801 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive, thought-provoking survey of new scientific theories and technologies and a dramatic portrait of the new universe that modern science is creating

Product Description: 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.
By John Brockman (editor)

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9780756764531 | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | 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.
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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Product Description: The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human - in fact, it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that score...read more
By John Brockman (editor)

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9780857892461 | Atlantic Books, January 1, 2012, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself.

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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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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.
By John Brockman (editor)

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9780307277220 | Vintage Books, May 9, 2006, cover price $15.95 | 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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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.
By John Brockman (editor)

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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.

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
By John Brockman (editor)

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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.

Prebinding:

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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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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A collection of speculative essays on the human mind covers such issues as intelligence, consciousness, creativity, and the beginning and ending of life

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9780138262150 | Prentice Hall Direct, August 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A collection of speculative essays on the human mind covers such issues as intelligence, consciousness, creativity, and the beginning and ending of life

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Product Description: Hace treinta y cinco años, C.P. Snow, en un célebre ensayo, escribió sobre la polarización de las «las dos culturas»-intelectuales de letras por un lado y científicos por otro-. Aunque confiara en que surgiría una «tercera cultura» capaz de tender un puente entre unos y otros, sólo recientemente, tras la masiva acogida de ...read more

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9788472239548 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Hace treinta y cinco años, C.

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By John Brockman (editor)

Paperback:

9780062258540 | Perennial, October 29, 2013, cover price $15.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781494512002 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 14, 2015), cover price $44.99

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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. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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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.

Paperback:

9780684823447 | Touchstone Books, May 7, 1996, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity...read more
By Ann Marie Lee (narrator)

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9781452619149 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 5, 2014), cover price $42.99 | About this edition: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.
9781452669144 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 5, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.

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