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{{a|book review|}}In ''[[The End of History and the Last Man]]'' {{author|Francis Fukuyama}} argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democ ...

{{a|book review|}}{{Br|Consciousness Explained}}<br>{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>''Review first published September 28, 2004''<br> ...you are left with is the mechanical functions of the brain (unless, with {{author|Roger Penrose}}, you want to say “quantum mechanics did it!”), so you don’t ...

...y Of Things There Should Be Words For}}, by {{author|Douglas Adams}} and {{author|John Lloyd}}.</ref> one struck up by an [[rent-seeker|agent]] to appear bus ...

...the Drafting of Contractual Instruments]]'' — whose very title betrays its author as the sort of fellow whose idea of “style” is a waistcoat and pantaloons — ...

...rel]] fancier — who isn’t? — and he irritated the living ''piss'' out of {{author|Richard Dawkins}}. What’s not to like? Books include {{br|The Mismeasure of ...

...— and I mean a ''lot'' harder than draughts or [[chess]], that it is, in {{author|Daniel Susskind}}’s mind, compelling evidence that we will shortly be good ...

...perience called {{br|The Long Way}}, which is also to be memorialised in {{Author|Stewart Brand}}’s forthcoming {{Br|The Maintenance Race}}. ...

{{a|book review|}}{{br|The Mismeasure of Man}}<br>{{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}<br>''First published on 19 December 2008''<br> Some critics complain that in {{br|The Mismeasure of Man}} {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} attacks a straw man: craniometry is, after all, no more ...

:—{{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, {{br|Human, All Too Human}}}} ...

{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br> At first glance this proposition seems uncontroversial but, as {{author|Daniel Dennett}} makes clear, its implications are anything but: once you a ...

...The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next}} — {{author|Lee Smolin}} ...ll of the physical sciences. (Yet, and without apparent irony, biologist {{author|Richard Dawkins}} makes favourable reference to the “multiverse” theory in ...

{{a|book review|}}{{author|Bernard Moitessier}}, {{br|The Long Way: Alone Between the Sea and Sky}}, ( ...Deep Water'', both of which also cover Moitessier’s race in some detail. {{author|Stewart Brand|’s forthcoming {{br|The Maintenance Race}} also covers the ra ...

...ok review|}}{{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} is, in equal parts, enthralling and infuriating. He ...

...rdinaire {{author|Simon Sinek}} for the TED talk which introduced him to {{author|James P. Carse}}’s obscure but brilliant book {{br|Finite and Infinite Game ...gh Sinek’s wittering: if you just set Sinek’s book aside — it is one, in {{author|Dorothy Parker}}’s terms, to be ''thrown'' aside with great force — and imm ...

:: — {{author|Douglas Adams}}: {{hhgg}}. <br> ...

...entist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, science communicator, author, and professor. Wrote the novel on which the excellent film ''Contact'' was ...

{{author|Rory Sutherland}}’s ten rules, and how these translate into the [[JC]]’s me ...xpensive behaviour signals your commitment. This is somewhat redolent of {{Author|Robert Cialdini}}’s [[reciprocity]]. ...

...t]]”.</ref> in the [[Dewey decimal system]]. This is where you will find {{author|Charles Berlitz}}’ classic bonkers monograph {{br|The Bermuda Triangle}} — ...

:—{{author|Sidney Dekker}}, {{br|The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations}}}} *{{br|The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations}} — {{author|Sidney Dekker}} ...

:—{{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, {{br|Götzen-Dämmerung}}}} ...r|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}. ...