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The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates
de Bloom, Howard
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 161614551X
- ISBN 13
- 9781616145514
- Librería
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 161614551X . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, erasure marks and trace of wite-out on front free endpaper.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 708 pages; "God’s war crimes, Aristotle’s sneaky tricks, Einstein’s pajamas, information theory’s blind spot, Stephen Wolfram’s new kind of science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything, as you’re about to see. How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a creator? How does the cosmos create?" .
Sinopsis
Howard Bloom has been called "the Darwin, Newton, Einstein, and Freud of the twenty-first century" and "the next Stephen Hawking." He is the author of The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("impressive, stimulating, and tremendously enjoyable"—James Fallows, national correspondent, the Atlantic Monthly ); Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"—the New Yorker ); and The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"—the Washington Post ). A recent visiting scholar at New York University, Bloom is the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, founder of the Space Development Steering Committee (a group that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell), and a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society. In addition, his scientific articles have appeared in PhysicaPlus, New Ideas in Psychology , and Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology and on arXiv.org. He has appeared on Good Morning America , the CBS Morning News, CBS News Nightwatch , CNN, the BBC, and over one hundred other media outlets.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21561
- Título
- The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates
- Autor
- Bloom, Howard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 161614551X
- ISBN 13
- 9781616145514
- Editorial
- Prometheus Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Amherst, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2012
- Palabras clave
- 161614551X, Creation, Science
- Catálogos del vendedor
- SCIENCE;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
Sobre Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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