This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series)

New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins (2013)
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What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge ("The world's smartest website"—THE GUARDIAN), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work.

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