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description: thought experiment devised by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger about quantum superposition of macroscopic states, e.g. between a live cat and a dead cat

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Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

by Paul Halpern  · 13 Apr 2015  · 282pp  · 89,436 words

, ext. 5000, or e-mail special.markets@perseusbooks.com. Designed by Pauline Brown Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halpern, Paul, 1961– Einstein’s dice and Schrödinger’s cat : how two great minds battled quantum randomness to create a unified theory of physics / Paul Halpern, PhD. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

by John Gribbin  · 1 Mar 2012  · 287pp  · 87,204 words

physics. But generations of physics students know him from the equation which bears his name, and countless non-physicists know him from the parable of Schrödinger’s cat. The whole point of that parable was to demonstrate the absurdity of quantum physics, and it could only have been dreamed up by a physicist

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

by Lee Smolin  · 31 Mar 2019  · 385pp  · 98,015 words

phenomena. Let us consider again people with two incompatible properties, political views and pet preference. Let’s suppose Anna and Beth share an apartment. They talk about getting a pet. Individually, Anna is a cat lover and so is Beth. The state of their couple is just the combination of these. Each

Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?

by John Kay  · 2 Sep 2015  · 478pp  · 126,416 words

and junk bonds ended in farce. In early 1990 the Campeau Corporation, which had used junk bonds to acquire many of the USA’s leading department stores – Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Jordan Marsh – defaulted on its debt mountain. Robert Campeau, a Canadian property speculator, had no qualifications to run these businesses, only

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

by Daniel C. Dennett  · 15 Jan 1995  · 846pp  · 232,630 words

has bedeviled quantum mechanics ever since. My student Turhan Canli first opened this door in his (undergraduate!) term paper for me on the problem of Schrödinger's cat, in which he developed the sketch of an alternative formulation of quantum physics in which time is quantized. If I ever master the physics (

The Manager’s Path

by Camille Fournier  · 7 Mar 2017

or the management hierarchy determines promotions directly, your direct manager will be essential in advocating for your promotion and getting it approved. 6 | THE MANAGER’S PATH In whatever way promotions happen, your manager should have an idea of whether you are qualified to be promoted. When you are interested in

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

by Secret Barrister  · 1 Jul 2018  · 372pp  · 116,005 words

so as a consequence of fearless, independent advocates and litigators relentlessly challenging the power-laden assumptions of the state in the service of their client’s cause: the barrister who exposes, through forensic cross-examination, the conspiracy of corrupt police officers fitting up their client; the solicitor who pursues the

Machine: A White Space Novel

by Elizabeth Bear  · 5 Oct 2020  · 537pp  · 146,610 words

. The figure stood and seemed to watch us approach. It—she?—did not move except for a curious little tilt of the head like a cat tracking prey up a wall. I wished I hadn’t thought of that particular comparison. I also wanted to roll my eyes violently at the

The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann

by Ananyo Bhattacharya  · 6 Oct 2021  · 476pp  · 121,460 words

seemed like the twenty-eight-year-old upstart was suggesting his book was the last word on quantum mechanics. Erwin Schrödinger disagreed. Three years after the publication of von Neumann’s book, Schrödinger discussed with Einstein the weaknesses in what would become known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Inspired by their

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili  · 14 Oct 2014  · 476pp  · 120,892 words

thermodynamics; so did the discovery of the double helix finally bring life entirely into the realm of classical science? Life’s curious grin In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire cat has a habit of disappearing, leaving only his grin, prompting Alice to remark that she has “often seen a

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

by Carl Zimmer  · 9 Mar 2021  · 392pp  · 109,945 words

Beyond Weird

by Philip Ball  · 22 Mar 2018  · 277pp  · 87,082 words

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life

by Paul Davies  · 31 Jan 2019  · 253pp  · 83,473 words

Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms

by Mark Spitznagel  · 9 Aug 2021  · 231pp  · 64,734 words

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

by Michio Kaku  · 5 Apr 2021  · 157pp  · 47,161 words

Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice

by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones  · 27 Apr 2020  · 419pp  · 102,488 words

From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time

by Sean M. Carroll  · 15 Jan 2010  · 634pp  · 185,116 words

Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

by Matthew Cobb  · 6 Jul 2015  · 608pp  · 150,324 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky  · 11 Mar 2015  · 1,737pp  · 491,616 words

The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

by William Poundstone  · 3 Jun 2019  · 283pp  · 81,376 words

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

by Sabine Hossenfelder  · 11 Jun 2018  · 340pp  · 91,416 words

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

by Jim Al-Khalili  · 22 Oct 2012  · 208pp  · 70,860 words

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely  · 27 Jun 2012  · 258pp  · 73,109 words

The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything

by John Gribbin  · 29 Nov 2009  · 185pp  · 55,639 words

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely  · 3 Apr 2013  · 898pp  · 266,274 words

Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper and Christophe Grand  · 15 Aug 2011  · 999pp  · 194,942 words

The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power

by Keith Barnham  · 7 May 2015  · 433pp  · 124,454 words

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  · 16 Oct 2017  · 398pp  · 105,032 words

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

by Simon Singh  · 29 Oct 2013  · 262pp  · 65,959 words

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

by Ozan Varol  · 13 Apr 2020  · 389pp  · 112,319 words

The Simulation Hypothesis

by Rizwan Virk  · 31 Mar 2019  · 315pp  · 89,861 words

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas  · 19 Oct 1999  · 509pp  · 92,141 words

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning

by Jeremy Lent  · 22 May 2017  · 789pp  · 207,744 words

Time Travel: A History

by James Gleick  · 26 Sep 2016  · 257pp  · 80,100 words

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

Science...For Her!

by Megan Amram  · 4 Nov 2014

When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

by Jim Holt  · 14 May 2018  · 436pp  · 127,642 words

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 10 Dec 2013  · 203pp  · 63,257 words

Halting State

by Charles Stross  · 9 Jul 2011  · 350pp  · 107,834 words

Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems

by Marianne Bellotti  · 17 Mar 2021  · 232pp  · 71,237 words

Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising

by Jim Jansen  · 25 Jul 2011  · 298pp  · 43,745 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil  · 31 Dec 1998  · 696pp  · 143,736 words

Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

by Brian Clegg  · 8 Dec 2015  · 315pp  · 92,151 words

Quarantine

by Greg Egan  · 13 Dec 1994  · 266pp  · 78,986 words

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig  · 12 Aug 2020  · 291pp  · 72,937 words

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

by Sally Adee  · 27 Feb 2023  · 329pp  · 101,233 words

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

by John Brockman  · 18 Jan 2011  · 379pp  · 109,612 words

Red Moon

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 22 Oct 2018  · 492pp  · 141,544 words

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins  · 12 Sep 2006  · 478pp  · 142,608 words

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

by Didier Sornette  · 18 Nov 2002  · 442pp  · 39,064 words

This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

by John Brockman  · 14 Feb 2012  · 416pp  · 106,582 words

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld  · 31 Mar 2011  · 239pp  · 56,531 words

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Jerry Kaplan  · 3 Aug 2015  · 237pp  · 64,411 words

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh  · 1 Jan 1999

The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

by Ron Jeffries  · 14 Aug 2015  · 444pp  · 118,393 words

Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

by Craig Lambert  · 30 Apr 2015  · 229pp  · 72,431 words

Unweaving the Rainbow

by Richard Dawkins  · 7 Aug 2011  · 339pp  · 112,979 words

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake  · 15 Jul 2019  · 409pp  · 112,055 words

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt  · 10 May 2021  · 291pp  · 80,068 words

Kiln People

by David Brin  · 15 Jan 2002  · 625pp  · 167,097 words

Collaborative Society

by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska  · 18 Feb 2020  · 187pp  · 50,083 words

The Quantum Magician

by Derek Künsken  · 1 Oct 2018  · 430pp  · 107,765 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

by Benjamin Breen  · 16 Jan 2024  · 384pp  · 118,573 words

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

by Johnjoe McFadden  · 27 Sep 2021

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler  · 29 May 2013  · 298pp  · 84,394 words

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by P. W. Singer  · 1 Jan 2010  · 797pp  · 227,399 words

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh  · 22 Sep 2025  · 255pp  · 80,203 words

Haskell Programming: From First Principles

by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki  · 1 Jan 2015  · 1,076pp  · 67,364 words

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

by Gail Honeyman  · 8 May 2017  · 335pp  · 100,331 words

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

by Ben Mezrich  · 20 May 2019  · 304pp  · 91,566 words

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

by Ian Sample  · 1 Jan 2010  · 310pp  · 89,838 words

The Fabric of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene  · 1 Jan 2003  · 695pp  · 219,110 words

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo  · 24 Aug 2009  · 1,396pp  · 245,647 words

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

by J. Craig Venter  · 16 Oct 2013  · 285pp  · 78,180 words

Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain Everything

by Tim James  · 26 Mar 2019  · 189pp  · 48,180 words

The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee  · 16 May 2016  · 824pp  · 218,333 words

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick  · 1 Jan 1992  · 795pp  · 215,529 words

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes  · 17 Sep 2012  · 1,437pp  · 384,709 words

The Strange Order of Things: The Biological Roots of Culture

by Antonio Damasio  · 6 Feb 2018  · 289pp  · 87,292 words

Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain

by Werner Loewenstein  · 29 Jan 2013  · 362pp  · 97,862 words

The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

by Robert Wright  · 1 Jan 1994  · 604pp  · 161,455 words

Collider

by Paul Halpern  · 3 Aug 2009  · 279pp  · 75,527 words

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

by Michael Strevens  · 12 Oct 2020

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick  · 1 Mar 2011  · 855pp  · 178,507 words

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright  · 28 Dec 2010

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin  · 18 Dec 2007  · 1,041pp  · 317,136 words

The Scientist as Rebel

by Freeman Dyson  · 1 Jan 2006  · 332pp  · 109,213 words

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

by Marcus Du Sautoy  · 18 May 2016

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick  · 18 Oct 2011  · 396pp  · 112,748 words

Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street

by Jackson Lears

The World According to Physics

by Jim Al-Khalili  · 10 Mar 2020  · 198pp  · 57,703 words

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

by Martin J. Rees  · 14 Oct 2018  · 193pp  · 51,445 words

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

by Steven Strogatz  · 31 Mar 2019  · 407pp  · 116,726 words

Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

by James Suzman  · 2 Sep 2020  · 909pp  · 130,170 words

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

by Emanuel Derman  · 13 Oct 2011  · 240pp  · 60,660 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante  · 9 Sep 2019

Prime Obsession:: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

by John Derbyshire  · 14 Apr 2003

Remix

by John Courtenay Grimwood  · 15 Nov 2001

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

by Christopher Hitchens  · 14 Jun 2007  · 740pp  · 236,681 words

Open: The Story of Human Progress

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Sep 2020  · 505pp  · 138,917 words

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

by J. Doyne Farmer  · 24 Apr 2024  · 406pp  · 114,438 words

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

by William Poundstone  · 4 Jan 2012  · 260pp  · 77,007 words

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

by Timothy Ferris  · 30 Jun 1988  · 661pp  · 169,298 words

The Transhumanist Reader

by Max More and Natasha Vita-More  · 4 Mar 2013  · 798pp  · 240,182 words

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

by Michio Kaku  · 15 Mar 2011  · 523pp  · 148,929 words

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

by Brian Klaas  · 23 Jan 2024  · 250pp  · 96,870 words

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson  · 5 May 2003  · 654pp  · 204,260 words

The End of Illness

by David B. Agus  · 15 Oct 2012  · 433pp  · 106,048 words

Stock Market Wizards: Interviews With America's Top Stock Traders

by Jack D. Schwager  · 1 Jan 2001

Double Helix

by James D. Watson and Gunther S. Stent  · 1 Jan 1968  · 134pp  · 43,617 words

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

by David Wootton  · 7 Dec 2015  · 1,197pp  · 304,245 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

by Paul J. Nahin  · 27 Oct 2012  · 229pp  · 67,599 words

Lint

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by John Moe  · 4 May 2020  · 264pp  · 89,323 words

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by Bernardo Kastrup  · 28 May 2015  · 244pp  · 73,966 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

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by Gabrielle Bluestone  · 5 Apr 2021  · 329pp  · 100,162 words

Turing's Cathedral

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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

by Ken Jennings  · 19 Sep 2011  · 367pp  · 99,765 words

The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

by Aja Raden  · 10 May 2021  · 291pp  · 85,822 words

The Dream of the Iron Dragon

by Robert Kroese  · 6 Dec 2017  · 459pp  · 128,458 words

Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

by Ben Mezrich  · 6 Nov 2023  · 279pp  · 85,453 words

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver  · 31 Aug 2012  · 829pp  · 186,976 words

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by Brian Portnoy and Joshua Brown  · 17 Nov 2020  · 149pp  · 43,747 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

Felaheen

by Jon Courtenay Grimwood  · 1 Jan 2003  · 407pp  · 107,343 words

Accelerando

by Stross, Charles  · 22 Jan 2005  · 489pp  · 148,885 words

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by Steven Weinberg  · 17 Feb 2015  · 532pp  · 133,143 words

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

by Emanuel Derman  · 1 Jan 2004  · 313pp  · 101,403 words

The Music of the Primes

by Marcus Du Sautoy  · 26 Apr 2004  · 434pp  · 135,226 words

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by Jo Marchant  · 15 Jan 2020  · 544pp  · 134,483 words

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by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne  · 16 May 2011  · 561pp  · 120,899 words

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by Geoffrey West  · 15 May 2017  · 578pp  · 168,350 words

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by Sam Harris  · 5 Oct 2010  · 412pp  · 115,266 words

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by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

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by Richard P. Feynman and Jeffrey Robbins  · 1 Jan 1999  · 261pp  · 86,261 words

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by David Christian  · 21 May 2018  · 334pp  · 100,201 words

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

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by Jonathan Strahan  · 28 Dec 2010  · 360pp  · 101,636 words

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by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

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by Stephen Hawking  · 16 Aug 2011  · 186pp  · 64,267 words

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