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- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Throughout history, humans have shown an incredible talent for destruction as well as creation. Aggression has driven us to great heights and brutal lows.
- Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe and beyond—that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness.
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives.
- A History of Economic Thought
As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.
- Quantum Entanglement
An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
- The Laws of Human Nature
Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
- Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
- Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
- The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids
After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
- The Art of War
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life.