The Language of Living Matter

Bernd-Olaf Küppers

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted excl... Lees meer

Earth, Our Living Planet

Philippe Bertrand, Louis Legendre

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How t... Lees meer

The Nonlinear Universe

Alwyn C Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Written in Alwyn Scott's inimitable style, one that readers will find both lucid and accessible, this masterwork elucidates the explosion of activity ... Lees meer

The Beginning and the End

Clément Vidal

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it... Lees meer

Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering

Juan Manuel Durán

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book addresses key conceptual issues relating to the modern scientific and engineering use of computer simulations. It analyses a broad set of qu... Lees meer

How Small Social Systems Work

Yair Neuman

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how ... Lees meer

Wittgensteinian (Adj.)

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• "Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than... Lees meer

Singularity Hypotheses

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating t... Lees meer

The Emerging Physics of Consciousness

Tuszynski Jack

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Consciousness remains one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the ... Lees meer

Chemical Complexity

Alexander S Mikhailov, Gerhard Ertl

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical system... Lees meer

From Electrons to Elephants and Elections

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contribution... Lees meer

Computer Meets Theoretical Physics

Giovanni Battimelli, Giovanni Ciccotti, Pietro Greco

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened when t... Lees meer

From the Web to the Grid and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Born after World War II, large-scale experimental high-energy physics (HEP) has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator, detector and... Lees meer

Humans on Earth

Filipe Duarte Santos

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This is a wide-ranging and persuasive book written by an undisputed expert. Beginning with a broad history of the Universe, Earth, Life, and Man, it c... Lees meer

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information

Scott J Muller

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book gathers concepts of information across diverse fields: physics, electrical engineering and computational science. It surveys current theorie... Lees meer

The Unknown as an Engine for Science

Hans J Pirner

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understa... Lees meer

The Beginning and the End

Clément Vidal

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it... Lees meer

Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their ow... Lees meer

The Technological Singularity

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity. In infor... Lees meer

Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principl... Lees meer

Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars

Carrier

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is... Lees meer

Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering

Juan Manuel Durán

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This book addresses key conceptual issues relating to the modern scientific and engineering use of computer simulations. It analyses a broad set of qu... Lees meer

The Map and the Territory

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle... Lees meer

How Small Social Systems Work

Yair Neuman

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers Collection
• Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how ... Lees meer