The Birth of Modernity      The Birth of Moder...      The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism Peter Gay W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 An Erudite Synthesis of the Enlightenment + Balanced and Erudite + Extremely Authoritative and Well-Done + Amazon's Waterloo! + excellent book!             Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett Simon & Schuster, 1996 Unintelligent design explained + Must read! + More a critique than anything else + Complex and Entertaining + like good medicine             Coming of Age in the Milky Way Timothy Ferris Harper Perennial, 2003 "Cosmic" + Coming of age in the milky way + Coming of Age in the Milky Way Rocks + Jerry's + Coming of Age in the Milky Way             Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life Mark Francis Cornell University Press, 2007 The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory, the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day, Spencer's works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in their importance to the development of disciplines as wide-ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy, and ...             The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Brilliant, ambitious, dense + Great view of how the past informs today's America + A grand peek into the intellectual community of the 19th century The Metaphysical Club is a brilliant, ambitious book - the chronicle of pragmatism's rise as a governing philosophy in the decades following the Civil War. But for all its virtues, I'm surprised this book won the Pulitzer Prize. This is pretty dense stuff. Despite Louis Menand's engaging writing ...             Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Francis Bacon Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 The Best Bacon in Paperback + Meet Brian Vickers, insane pedant I concur with Gulley Jimson about the number of unnecessarily annotated words. The space could have been put to better use: a larger topical index would have been welcome, and I sorely missed Bacon's own apophthegms. But I would emphasize the positive point Jimson makes and do so in capital ...             A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2007 Einstein's seminal works commented on by Stephen Hawking + Stephen Hawking on Einstein- The most highly celebrated and recognized scientist alive today, Stephen Hawking has assembled, in this volume, highlights of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific works, such as his Special Theory of Relativity (1905) and his General Theory of Relativity (1915). Also included are Einstein's ...             Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Jonathan I. Israel Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Fascinating Intellectual History + Fascinating + A slightly flawed masterpiece An utterly fascinating study of intellectual history in Europe, especially Holland, on either side of the turn of the eighteenth century. "Radical Enlightenment" refers to what were perceived as hard-line attacks on authoritarian, particularly religious ideas, specifically the ideas of divine ...             The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, Peter M. Harman Cambridge University Press, 2001 This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and world view. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes that shaped Maxwell's science: analogy and geometry, models and mechanical explanation, statistical representation and the limitations of dynamical reasoning, and the relation between physical theory and its ...             Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Feynman never got out of his box, because he never had one! + gift for someone else + The genius of curiosity... + The lighter side of a physicist             The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library) Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Books, 1977 A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche + Nietzsche makes it fun + good deal, + Portable and easy to read Nietzsche + An excellent selection from an excellent phisopher             Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy) Routledge, 2002 Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in the philosophy of science. Sections are: Science and Philosophy; Explanation; Causation and Laws; Scientific Theories and Conceptual Change; Scientific Realism; Testing and Confirmation of Theories; and Science in Context. Each section is prefaced by ...             Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings René Descartes Cambridge University Press, 1988 Descartes' Basic Writings This first volume in a two-volume set contains: (1) Rules for the Direction of our Native Intelligence, (2) Discourse on the Method, (3) Optics, (4) Meditations on First Philosophy (together with Objections and Replies), (5) Principles of Philosophy, (6) Comments on a Certain Broadsheet, and (7) ...             On The Shoulders Of Giants Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2003 A Promethean Bible + Now We Know why Geometry is Called the Queen of the Sciences + A Great Summary of Natural Philosophy "On the Shoulders of Giants" is a powerful book. It contains the seminal works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein (translated into English) and thus, is an exhaustive account of their Promethean quest to see beyond the veil of appearance and into the hidden laws of the ...             The Wittgenstein Reader (Blackwell Readers) Anthony Kenny Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 This popular selection of Wittgenstein’s key writings has now been updated to include new material relevant to recent debates about the philosopher. Follows the evolution of Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through to the Philosophical Investigations. Excerpts are arranged by topic and introduce readers to all the central concerns ...          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web we recommend Feynman never got out of his box, because he never had one! randomly chosen toys & games: Jr. Fire Fighter Suit with helmet, size 4/6 (black)