Isbn: 9780679411925 - Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (26 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. *HARDBACK, stated First Edition in good to vg condition. Black boards with black quarterbinding and gilt lettering on front board and spine. Minor handling and shelfwear to boards. Pictorial dj in good condition. Slight rubbing to dj, otherwise in good condition. Previous owners name "Syers" on ffep,ltop, fore and bottom pages of book. Decorative map of The Kingdom of the Tewa pages preceding the title page. Book clean and tight. Half the original cost.…

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dark grey & black ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. 3 page corner turndowns, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). large b&w map at front~ "the kingdom of the Tewa". decorative title pg. 379p.+author bio note & colophon. acknowl. notes. biblio. index. physics. cosmology. metaphysics. philosophy. history of science. quantum electrodynamics. murray gell~mann. niels bohr. einstein. atomic bomb project. anasazi. ~Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see imposed by the prisms of our nervous system, a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? Do the patterns found by science hold some claim to universal truth, or would a visitor from another galaxy find them as quaint and culturally determined, as built on faith, as the world's religions? In this stunningly original book, set among the mountains and canyonlands of northern New Mexico, George Johnson explores the human hunger for pattern, the innate drive to find (or impose) order in our capricious world. In this land of strange juxtapositions where magic and science, religion and reason, constantly bump up against each other, Johnson introduces us to an amazing diversity of people who see the world through varied lenses, who find vastly different pictures in the night sky. Just north of Santa Fe, the Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso sits at the bottom of the plateau on which stands the laboratory city of Los Alamos. While the people of San Ildefonso carry out secret ceremonies in their kivas and dance to the rhythms of the seasons, the physicists of Los Alamos struggle with some of the most complex ideas of quantum theory, particle physics, and a new science called the physics of information, which seeks to understand the very source of pattern and order in the world. Los Alamos and San Ildefonso are just two pieces in this jigsaw puzzle of world views. In the dizzying heights of the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountains, the faithful flock to an old Catholic church for samples of holy soil said to cure all ills. Descending from this land of miracles to the foothills around Santa Fe, we visit a revolutionary think tank called the Santa Fe Institute. Here scientists are focusing their research on questions that seem to hover within the penumbra between science and religion: How, from the random jostling of molecules, did life arise and evolve to the point where it can contemplate its own beginnings? Are we accidents of the universe~miracles~or is there a reason for us to be here? By examining some of the most radical new theories of physics and biology emanating from the laboratories of northern New Mexico and comparing them to the intricate belief systems of the Tewa Indians, a Catholic sect called the Penitentes, and other inhabitants of this land, Johnson casts the scientific enterprise in a startling new light. The result is an intellectual adventure story of the highest order, a journey to the far reaches of the scientific frontier where the human soul struggles to make sense of life's deepest mysteries.…

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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 379 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468929.

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 379 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Clifford Brycelea (Jacket Painting); Calvin Chu (Jacket Design) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 379pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Light bumping to the corners else fine in fine dustwrapper with light bumping to the extremities.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. An unblemished first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition housed in a scuffed and edgeworn Very Good+ dust-jacket; This book is about the author's journey from being a fundamentalist Christian to being a scientist and how that has influenced his views on religion. He discusses how science and faith can work together to find order in the universe.; 8vo; 379 pages.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name inked on FEP. Some dogeared pages throughout. Foxing on top text block edge.; 379 pages.