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Philosophy & Social Aspects eBooks

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  • Silk

    A World History

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April“Aarathi Prasad’s Silk: A World History is a love song to this protean material. . . . Beautiful [and] fascinating.” —Wall Street Journal"Aarathi Prasad spins a masterpiece of a story, as luminous, supple, and surprising as the wondrous threads themselves." —Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus and Of Time and Turtles... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Magisteria

    The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

    by Nicholas Spencer ...
    Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.‘A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the world.’ ECONOMIST, BEST BOOKS OF 2023The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • How the World Really Works

    The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”*—*Bill Gates“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    Why Violence Has Declined

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence.Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Accidental Species

    Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

    by Henry Gee ...
    “With a delightfully irascible sense of humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin . . . an excellent primer on how—and how not—to think about human evolution.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite RexThe idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plato's Sophist

    Part II of The Being of the Beautiful

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Seth Benardete ...
    Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La philosophie de la liberté

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Series Book 6 - gli Iniziati
    La philosophie de la liberté est l'un des textes clés pour comprendre la pensée de Steiner. Il est divisé en deux parties: la Science de la liberté et la Réalité de la liberté. Dans la première partie Steiner aborde la question de la pensée et de la pensée, qui est la base de la connaissance intuitive et unitive, capable de surmonter le dualisme entre soi et le monde. La deuxième partie examine la ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding the Mother Tree

    Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

    by Suzanne Simard ...
    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Mountain Environment and Natural History**WINNER of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature**WINNER of the 2022 BC and Yukon Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award**SHORTLISTED for the 2022 BC and Yukon Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize**SHORTLISTED for the 202... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Matter of Facts

    Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science

    by Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng ...
    PRODUCING AND USING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: A fascinating study of how biases, the desire for a good narrative, and other problems undermine confidence in modern science.Modern science is built on experimental evidence, yet scientists are often very selective in deciding what evidence to use and tend to disagree about how to interpret it. In The Matter of Facts, Gareth and Rhodri Leng explore how ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Science, Faith and Society

    A searching examination of the meaning and nautre of scientific inquiry

    by Michael Polanyi ...
    In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy.Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Superior

    The Return of Race Science

    by Angela Saini ...
    This fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).“An important and timely reminder that race is ‘a social construct’ with ‘no basis in biology.’” —Kirkus ReviewsAfter the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Metazoa

    Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The War on Science

    Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

    by Shawn Otto ...
    **An “insightful” and in-depth look at anti-science politics and its deadly results (Maria Konnikova, New York Times–bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff).Thomas Jefferson said, “Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” But what happens when they aren’t?From climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense, we are ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waking Up

    A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

    by Sam Harris ...
    For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Until the End of Time

    Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

    by Brian Greene ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe."Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York TimesUntil the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

    by Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford ...
    **"Multifaceted, surprising, and full of wonders…You really owe it to yourself to read it." —Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpThe complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts).**Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Barmaids Brain And Other Strange Tales From Science

    by Jay Ingram ...
    In The Barmaid's Brain, Jay Ingram explores some of the little known quirks of human behaviour, including why we laugh and how we see mirages; he reports on science's various attempts to reexamine history, including startling theories about the Salem witches, a psychiatric profile of Joan of Arc and the raging debate about the first-ever map of the New World; he brings our attention to remarkable ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    by Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD $13.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill GatesIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Naked Future

    What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?

    by Patrick Tucker ...
    “A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of DriveThanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD $6.99 CAD

  • The Language of God

    A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

    by Francis S. Collins ...
    An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational, while science restricts us to a life with no meaning beyond the physical. It is an irreconcilable war ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Physics of the Future

    How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

    by Michio Kaku ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century.“Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle**Space elevators. Internet-enabled ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology

    Diversity of Context, Thought, and Practice

    by Thomas Teo, Angelina Baydala, Richard T. G. Walsh ...
    In line with the British Psychological Society's recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural and social elements that influenced psychology's development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is both a human (i.e. psychoanalytic or phenomenological) and natural (i.e. cognitive) science, exploring ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Optimism Bias

    A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

    by Tali Sharot ...
    From a leading neuroscience researcher, an exploration of the neural basis of optimism, and how the brain simulates the future. How does the brain generate hope? How does it trick us into moving forward? What happens when it fails? How do the brains of optimists differ from those of pessimists? Psychologists have long been aware that most people tend to entertain an irrationally positive outlook ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD $11.99 CAD