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  • The Emergence of Life

    From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

    by Pier Luigi Luisi ...
    Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the philosophical aspects of science, including the epistemic features of modern synthetic biology, and also providing an updated view of the autopoiesis ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    by Pier Luigi Luisi, Fritjof Capra ...
    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Mind and Life

    Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

    by Pier Luigi Luisi ...
    Series series Columbia Series in Science and Religion
    Scientists, philosophers and Buddhist scholars discuss the nature of reality in a book that goes inside a Mind and Life Institute conference.For over a decade, members of the Mind and Life Institute have gathered to discuss questions that are both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind and Life

    Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

    by Pier Luisi ...
    Series series Columbia Series in Science and Religion
    For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers-members of the Mind and Life Institute-have met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings, the themes discussed were both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Calm Flashes of the Mind: A Novel

    by Pier Luigi Luisi ...
    The mechanism in which asignificant images arise (those images that suddenly appear in one’s mind, with no direct connection to the present moment) is the field being researched by Marcel, a neuroscience researcher and staunch rationalist who lives and works in a Zurich, influenced by Jungian psychology.This is where he meets Anna, a musician, with whom he finally appears to have a vibrant and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chemical Synthetic Biology

    Edited by Pier Luigi Luisi, Cristiano Chiarabelli ...
    Chemistry plays a very important role in the emerging field of synthetic biology. In particular, chemical synthetic biology is concerned with the synthesis of chemical structures, such as proteins, that do not exist in nature. With contributions from leading international experts, Chemical Synthetic Biology shows how chemistry underpins synthetic biology. The book is an essential guide to this ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • The Minimal Cell

    The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality

    Edited by Pier Luigi Luisi, Pasquale Stano ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In the last ten years there has been a considerable increase of interest on the notion of the minimal cell. With this term we usually mean a cell-like structure containing the minimal and sufficient number of components to be defined as alive, or at least capable of displaying some of the fundamental functions of a living cell. In fact, when we look at extant living cells we realize that thousands ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Improbability Principle

    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

    by David J. Hand ...
    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Antifragile

    Things That Gain from Disorder

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 3 - Incerto
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Thinking

    The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 6 - Best of Edge Series
    Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fastand Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumblingon Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteriesof rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond.Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's s... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD