Includes index.Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama. For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now …
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians…
An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account o…
"A global history of cannabis that offers a broad, multicontinental examination of the roots and effects of cannabis policy and legalization efforts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments-from his childhood as a precocious math and science whiz to his experiences as a female st…
"Between the Tracks will analyze works by composers and researchers who have been under-examined in standard electronic music history books"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments. Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban fl?neur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With Walter Benjamin Reimagined , Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With det…
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"The authors examine the implications of AI for the future of life and work, and how this might change the structure and environment of high school education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.