Michael Brooks
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Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, he lets his understanding of the new media environment direct his analysis of the newly risen conservative rebels who have taken YouTube by storm. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent "renegades" including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein while also examining...
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They may have a public image as cool, logical, levelheaded types. But in reality, scientists will do pretty much anything-take drugs, follow mystical visions, lie, and even cheat-to make a discovery.
In Free Radicals, physicist and journalist Michael Brooks seamlessly weaves together true stories of the men and women who have revolutionized the scientific world, and offers a fast-paced and thrilling exploration of the real process behind discovery....
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Miracles Come in All Sizes contains a collection of poems on life, love, pain from the past, and dreams. Filled with inspiration, thoughts on failure in love, relationships, and self-improvement, Michael's poetry involves all to hope and believe, especially in miracles.
4) Remote It!: Winning With Freelancers-Build and Manage a Thriving Business in a Virtual World-Run a B
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Imagine how great it would be to cut costs and grow your business beyond your wildest expectations by "remoting it" with outstanding global freelance talent? Yes, you can eliminate the expense of maintaining an office and many other costs with this approach.
Think about the freedom this offers you and your workers, to be productive, efficient, and innovative from any location in the world. “Remote It!” by Michael Brooks describes how to achieve...
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Imagine how great it would be to cut costs and grow your business beyond your wildest expectations by "remoting it" with outstanding global freelance talent. Discover how you can eliminate the expense of maintaining an office and many other costs with this approach.
This fast-paced book explains how to:
-Lead an exceptional remote culture.
-Easily find and hire people with a wide range of different skill sets.
-Build a loyal workforce and conduct...
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The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science-and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Michael Brooks investigates the new wave of radical insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery. Brooks takes us to the extreme frontiers of what we understand about the world....
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Pantheon Books
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[2022]
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"For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every...
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Seventeen-year-old Misty Fairchild and her sister are hiking across the Texas Hill Country in what could be a delightful camping trip; but instead, it's a harrowing nightmare due to the fact that they just escaped a secret underground base where they've been held captive for the last five years. Oh, yeah, and her ex-boyfriend went psycho, joined the Brute Squad, and is now after them to drag them back to New Mexico. Eighteen-year-old Adam Rowan is...
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Many of us feel out of synch with our lives. We sleepwalk through experience, believing that one day-when all the conditions are just right and the stars align perfectly-we will achieve a peaceful state of mind. We spend our days wandering through the past, dwelling in fictional futures, or existing in alternating states of distraction and frustration. We're absent from our own lives-yet we wonder why we struggle to be at peace and find it so difficult...
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A week ago, Adam Rowan thought he understood life and his place in it. But after meeting Misty Fairchild in an exploding diner and becoming embroiled in her life-or-death struggle, everything is flipped on its head. His family is not who he thought they were, and now he has to deal with the fallout of Mentor's machinations. His home overrun with refugees from the New Mexico base, he's figuring out his new-found feelings for Misty and how to deal with...
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Scribe Publications
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2019.
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"A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes, and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook, like Jerome,...
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"The Gaslighting Epidemic Series: From Personal Betrayal to Societal Deceit" is a compelling two-in-one volume that brings together the critical insights of John D. Kody's "The Gaslighting Trap: Understanding and Overcoming Emotional Abuse" and Michael Brooks' "The Gaslighting of America: How the Elite, the Authorities and Mainstream Media Have Conspired to Deceive the People." This series stands as a testament to the pervasive nature of gaslighting,...
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Workman Publishing
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2014
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Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing!
It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo