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Fire, Ice, and Physics

The Science of Game of Thrones

by Rebecca C. Thompson

Foreword by Sean Carroll

ISBN: 9780262539616

Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.

Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

Edited by Snait B. Gissis, Ehud Lamm and Ayelet Shavit

ISBN: 9780262036856

Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.

The Beauty of Numbers in Nature

Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World

by Ian Stewart

ISBN: 9780262534284

From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them.

Social Neuroscience

People Thinking about Thinking People

Edited by John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser and Cynthia L. Pickett

ISBN: 9780262517270

Studies in the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing by psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists, using methods that range from brain imaging techniques to comparative analyses.

Psychiatry in the Scientific Image

by Dominic Murphy

ISBN: 9780262517447

An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.

The Nature of Difference

Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

Edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig

ISBN: 9780262582759

A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.

The Complementary Nature

by J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrom

ISBN: 9780262612227

Why do we divide our world into contraries? Why do we perceive and interpret so many of life's contraries as mutually exclusive, either/or dichotomies such as individual~collective, self~other, body~mind,...

The Harmonic Mind

From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume I: Cognitive Architecture Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications

by Paul Smolensky and Géraldine Legendre

ISBN: 9780262195287

Pain

New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study

Edited by Murat Aydede

ISBN: 9780262511889

What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences. To see an object...

Evolution and Culture

A Fyssen Foundation Symposium

Edited by Stephen C. Levinson and Pierre Jaisson

ISBN: 9780262621977

Biological and cultural processes have evolved together, in a symbiotic spiral; they are now indissolubly linked, with human survival unlikely without such culturally produced aids as clothing, cooked...

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