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        Fire, Ice, and Physics

        Fire, Ice, and Physics

        Fire, Ice, and Physics

        The Science of Game of Thrones

        by Rebecca C. Thompson

        Foreword by Sean Carroll

        ISBN: 9780262539616

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 10, 2020

        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

        Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

        Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

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

        ISBN: 9780262036856

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 12, 2018

        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

        The Beauty of Numbers in Nature

        The Beauty of Numbers in Nature

        Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World

        by Ian Stewart

        ISBN: 9780262534284

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        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

        Social Neuroscience

        Social Neuroscience

        People Thinking about Thinking People

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

        ISBN: 9780262517270

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 13, 2012

        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

        Psychiatry in the Scientific Image

        Psychiatry in the Scientific Image

        by Dominic Murphy

        ISBN: 9780262517447

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 13, 2012

        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

        The Nature of Difference

        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

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 23, 2009

        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

        The Complementary Nature

        The Complementary Nature

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

        ISBN: 9780262612227

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 25, 2008

        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

        The Harmonic 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

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 27, 2006

        Pain

        Pain

        Pain

        New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study

        Edited by Murat Aydede

        ISBN: 9780262511889

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 23, 2005

        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 is...
        Evolution and Culture

        Evolution and Culture

        Evolution and Culture

        A Fyssen Foundation Symposium

        Edited by Stephen C. Levinson and Pierre Jaisson

        ISBN: 9780262621977

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2005

        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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