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  • Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

    by Roger Penrose ...
    In Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, renowned mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose presents a bold and thought-provoking exploration of the human mind. Building on ideas from his earlier work, Penrose challenges the widely held belief that consciousness is simply the result of computational processes in the brain.Drawing on mathematics, physics, and ... Read more

    $13.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Reality

    A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS**The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Emperor's New Mind

    Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine. Oxford ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

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  • Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Cycles of Time

    An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

    by Sir Roger Penrose ...
    What came before the Big Bang?How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end?In this remarkable book Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe.Cycles of Time contains a penetrating analysis of the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually increasing - and a thorough examination of the light-cone ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Space and Time (New in Paper)

    by Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the world's most famous ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • White Mars; or, The Mind Set Free

    A 21st-Century Utopia

    by Brian W. Aldiss, Roger Penrose ...
    A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction's most renowned authorsIn the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically ravaged home planet. But when the economy of EUPACUS—Earth's collective industrialized nations—collapses, ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Little Orange and the Engines of Creation

    by Roger Penrose ...
    The continuation of the adventures of Little Orange, as she and her friends attempt to locate the 7 Engines of Creation. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Orange at the End of the World

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Book three of the Little Orange trilogy. The world ends. You think that would be the end of everyone's problems. You'd think wrong. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hell to Pay

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Book two of the Life During Wartime series. The brutal street war waged between the underground and the Department of Social Mores rages on through the streets of Tucson, but someone - or something - else has become interested in the situation. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life During Wartime

    by Roger Penrose ...
    What happens when a police state gets so oppressive that the police themselves become targets? Justin and Kalera are homicide detectives trying to solve a grisly crime in the not-so-distant future, but fall afoul of the notorious Department of Social Mores. Before long, they find themselves on the wrong side of the law, hunted by secret police and their own fellow officers. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus