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• Author(s): A. C. Grayling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralIdeas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundament...

• Author(s): Seymour A. Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyIn this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children...

• Author(s): Gilles Fauconnier | Mark Turner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, le...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): John R. Searle • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyDisillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most o...

• Author(s): Steven Pinker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative"If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." -- Jared Diamond In Words and R...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Mind & BodyWhat are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at...