This Will Make You Smarter and over 1.5 million other books are available for Amazon Kindle . Learn more

Trade in Yours
For a £0.85 Gift Card
Trade in
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Colour:
Image not available

 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book
Start reading This Will Make You Smarter on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking [Paperback]

David Brooks (Foreword), John Brockman (Editor)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition £6.55   -- --
Hardcover £9.59   -- --
Paperback £6.89   -- --
Paperback, 14 Feb 2012 --   -- --
Unknown Binding --   -- --
Audio Download, Unabridged £16.27 or Free with Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial
Books Trade-In
Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. Learn more.

Book Description

Publication Date: 14 Feb 2012

Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better.

Includes contributions from:

Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, Lee Smolin, Matt Ridley, Mark Henderson, David Rowan, Sir Martin Rees, Craig Venter, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier and David Brooks . . . among others.

With his organisation Edge.org, the literary agent and all-purpose intellectual impresario John Brockman has brought together the most influential thinkers of our age. Every year he sets them a question, this year that question was:

What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?

Their answers are collected in this book and explore philosophy, psychology, economics, and other disciplines - and all share one aim: to provide the most reliable ways of gaining knowledge about anything, whether it be human behaviour, corporate behaviour, the fate of the planet, or the future of the universe.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product details

  • Paperback: 415 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (14 Feb 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062109391
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062109392
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 586,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Review

"The world's smartest website... Edge is a salon for the world's finest minds" (Guardian)

"Imagine inviting some of the world's top thinkers round to your place and asking them to tell you one thing that would make you smarter. No need to imagine: John Brockman has done it, by getting 150 of the planet's smartest minds to offer a neat insight each" (BBC Focus magazine) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Book Description

New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Thinking DOES make you cleverer 18 Mar 2013
By Bakaralph
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It does what it says on the front cover - it makes you a little bit smarter. But, I feel, the essays by prominent scientists and philosophers were too short for these people to develop their arguments fully. More depth is required. Nevertheless, it did make me think more fully of humankind's position in the universe. Now, if only all SUN readers would read this book...
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars good book 13 Mar 2013
By K. M. TAGGART
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a very enlightening read and comes highly recommended to improve over all knowledge on a range of subject matters
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It does what it says on the cover! 25 Dec 2012
By Charles MacKinnon
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is one of the most interesting collections of short thought pieces I have come across in years; every word is thought provoking and makes you look at the world in a different way. It is also a wonderful book to have at my bedside, as i can read one or two articles, and then lie in bed and thin about them as I fall to sleep; and i wake up smarter!
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?   Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars A concept I don't fully embrace
I've mixed feelings: rationally I like the idea, emotionally it didn't work with me. Though many of the individual contributions work well others don't, may be because they are too... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Miguel Ribeiro
4.0 out of 5 stars Erudition 101
Packed full of wonderful and brief contributions that illuminate and enlighten across a broad range of scientific principles. It makes you think and challenges your assumptions. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Bhanu Dhir
5.0 out of 5 stars Dip in over coffee and be nourished
As with all such Brockman books the pithy statements can give a variety of viewpoints to extend one's limited vision. Valuable for the spare mont.
Published 1 month ago by john hiller
5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers (almost) what it says on the tin
Definitely a great summary of important scientific, sociological and philosophical knowledge, condensed into very short summaries. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Charles Lowe
5.0 out of 5 stars Here are dozens of perspectives on what are, for most people, new...
Many of those who purchase and then begin to read this book will learn, for the first time, about Edge.org, a website offering an abundance of resources. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Robert Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars Here are dozens of perspectives on what are, for most people, new...
Many of those who purchase and then begin to read this book will learn, for the first time, about Edge.org, a website offering an abundance of resources. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Robert Morris
2.0 out of 5 stars Old ideas repeated within the same book
If you have not kept up with modern science over the last 20 years this book might teach you something new. So a good introduction with lots of short chapters. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ransen Owen
4.0 out of 5 stars Plenty to think about here
This is a really good book. Lots of thoughtful essays by all kinds of people - and several of them run counter to one another, giving even more food for thought: is Argument 1 more... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lyon
5.0 out of 5 stars This will make you smarter
An interesting title and one that I was quick to want to look at. With science being a subject that in schools especially, is in somewhat decline in terms of interest or long term... Read more
Published 12 months ago by n
5.0 out of 5 stars Birthday present
I bought this item for my Daughter's birthday, she had it on her Amazon wish list so I know it was what she wanted, she loves it.
Published 13 months ago by Patricia Shepherd
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

    Your Shopping Basket is empty.

    Give it purpose -- fill it with books, DVDs, clothes, electronics and more.

    If you already have an account, sign in.

    There's a problem previewing your shopping basket at the moment.

    Check your Internet connection and go to your cart, or try again.

    View Shopping Basket (0 items)

      Customer Discussions

      This product's forum
      Discussion Replies Latest Post
      No discussions yet

      Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
      Start a new discussion
      Topic:
      First post:
      Prompts for sign-in
       

      Search Customer Discussions
      Search all Amazon discussions
         

      Listmania!

      Create a Listmania! list

      Look for similar items by category

      Feedback