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  • Life in the Pits
    Nicholas P. T. Maxwell
    In the fall of 1985, a young, somewhat insecure, surgical resident, trans-planted from England via medical school at McGill University in Montreal, began his second year of his surgery training. He had chosen to cut his teeth in a fast-paced, bloody war zone: Detroit Receiving Hospital’s emergency trauma center. Now a busy general, vascular and minimally invasive surgeon in a p...
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    15,50 €

  • WORLD CRISIS - AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, THE
    MAXWELL NICHOLAS / Nicholas Maxwell
    Science and technology have made the modern world possible, but also created all the global problems that threaten our future: the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, mass extinction of species, environmental degradation, overpopulation, lethal modern war, and the menace of nuclear weapons. Nicholas Maxwell, world-renowned philosopher of science and author of 14 books, argue...
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    31,74 €

  • Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment
    Nicholas Maxwell
    Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think...
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    63,85 €

  • Science and Enlightenment
    Nicholas Maxwell
    This book argues that two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves and other living things as a part of it; and learning how to become civilized. The author proposes that with the creation of modern science in the 17th century, the first problem was essentially solved.  But the second problem has still not been ...
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    67,08 €

  • The Comprehensibility of the Universe
    Nicholas Maxwell
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    66,39 €