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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
The Madhouse Effect
How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel
Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. The Madhouse Effect offers a clever lampoon of the fallacious claims and absurd arguments of climate-science deniers.
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2018 208 pages 53 illus.
2018 240 pages 105 illus.
$18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-17787-0
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
The Collapse of Western Civilization
David J. Helfand
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
A View from the Future
Scientific Habits of Mind
A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world. $22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-16873-1 $29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16872-4 2017 344 pages 53 illus.
In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so-called “carbon combustion complex” that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. $9.95 / £7.99 paper 978-0-231-16954-7 2014 104 pages 1 Illus.
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