A Philosopher Looks at Science

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  21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.
  
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  Chomsky On Anarchism

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  Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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  Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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  Childhood’s End

  The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. W…

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  Free Will

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  The Gathering Storm

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  A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

  The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arac…

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  The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

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  Left Is Not Woke

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  Bird by Bird

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  "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. …

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