January Book Reviews Roundup

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
by Stanislas Dehaene. Viking Adult, 2014

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
by Max Tegmark. Knopf, 2014

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014


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Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
by Amanda Gefter. Bantam, 2014

Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
by David Sedlak. Yale University Press, 2014

Scientific American Magazine Vol 310 Issue 1This article was published with the title “January Book Reviews Roundup” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 310 No. 1 ()
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