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This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works
This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

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The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012
The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012

From Buddhism to the relationship between creativity and dishonesty, by way of storytelling and habit.

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Some of Today’s Hottest Scientific Mysteries, Illustrated by Some of Today’s Coolest Artists
Some of Today’s Hottest Scientific Mysteries, Illustrated by Some of Today’s Coolest Artists

A beautiful celebration of the unknown at the intersection of art and science.

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John Updike on the Universe and Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
John Updike on the Universe and Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing

“The mystery of being is a permanent mystery, at least given the present state of the human brain.”

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What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers
What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers

“Philosophy is 99 per cent about critical reflection on anything you care to be interested in.”

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The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites
The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

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The Best Science Books of 2012
The Best Science Books of 2012

From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.

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A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake
A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake

“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”

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How 17 Equations Changed the World
How 17 Equations Changed the World

What Descartes has to do with C. P. Snow and the second law of thermodynamics.

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What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions
What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions

What songwriting has to do with string theory.

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