On Suicide

Durkheim Emile

The landmark investigation into suicide and society--now in a new translation   mile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups tha...

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Lee Smolin

From Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics, a daring new vision of the universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that will illuminate our future.   Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of our world--atoms, radiation, elementa...