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Offers twenty lessons drawn from the rise and fall of authoritarian dictatorships in the twentieth century for dealing with threats to democracy, ethics, and social norms now.
This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Copyright ...
Nobel laureate Erwin SchrOdinger's What is Life' is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved...
"This is a tough one to review. I was interested in reading a renowned physicist's take on life; that is, on organisms rather than on inanimate objects. He presents a well-ordered argument in a somewhat conversational way, because the title essay ..."
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