Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical symbolism. This book follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic in an easy-to-follow and friendly manner.

Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Totem Books.

Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide

Why did countries engage in a nuclear arms race? how do we make decisions when we don’t have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation possible? Game theory is the study of how we make a decision when the outcome of our moves depends on the decisions of someone else. Icon.

. But it’s not just about predicting your opponent’s next play in a game of chess; conflict and cooperation lie at the heart of game theory, which is useful for understanding behaviour in everything from our social lives to business, global politics to evolutionary theory. In introducing game theory, economists ivan and tuvana pastine explore this fascinating area, we sometimes cooperate, which looks beneath the surface of human behavior calling upon psychology, when faced with a decision, political science and sociology to explain why, evolutionary biology, sometimes clash, and sometimes act in a way that seems completely random.

Stylishly brought to life by regular guardian illustrator Tom Humberstone, the book takes readers on a tour of the key ideas and thinkers, and puts you into a series of games that provide a new perspective on the world we live in.

Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide to Science's Most Puzzling Discovery

Quantum theory is one of science's most thrilling, challenging and even mysterious areas. Icon. Scientists such as planck, einstein, bohr, heisenberg and Schrödinger uncovered bizarre paradoxes in the early 20th century that seemed to destroy the fundamental assumptions of 'classical physics' - the basic laws we are taught in school.

Notoriously difficult, explained here with patience, quantum theory is nonetheless an amazing and inspiring intellectual adventure, wit and clarity. Totem Books.

Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide

Totem Books. It examines and explains the key arguments and ideas of all the significant philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrida. Icon Books. Some of questions include: what is the nature of reality? what are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain about anything at all? Introducing Philosophy is a comprehensive and enjoyable graphic guide to philosophical thinking.

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Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide

Totem Books. Using computers, it can make precise models of physical structures - from ferns to galaxies. Icon Books. Icon. Fractal geometry is a new language. Once you speak it, you can describe the shape of cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house. It's about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world - the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealized forms of Euclidean geometry.

Icon Books. Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world - animal, vegetable and mineral. We see fractals everywhere; indeed we are fractal! Fractal Geometry is an extension of classical geometry.

Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide

Icon. This title offers an enjoyable, surprise-filled tour through a subject that is both fascinating and crucial to understanding our world. Fisher. She even tells how knowledge of statistics can prolong one's life, as it did for evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, given eight months to live after a cancer diagnoses in 1982 - and he lived until 2002.

For the media, 'horrifying', occasionally, statistics are routinely 'damning', or, 'encouraging'. Icon Books. Exploring the history, to the censuses of romans and the greeks, eileen Magnello - accompanied by Bill Mayblin's intelligent graphic illustration - traces the rise of statistics from the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Chinese, philosophy and practical use of statistics, mathematics, and the modern emergence of the term itself in Europe.

. From the medicine we take, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, the treatments we receive, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. Totem Books. Totem Books. Yet, for all their ubiquity, most of us really don't know what to make of statistics.

She explores the 'vital statistics' of, in particular, William Farr, and the mathematical statistics of Karl Pearson and R. A.

Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide

Totem Books. Icon. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexity, the new unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules. This is an accessible introduction to an astonishing and controversial theory that could dramatically change our view of the natural world and our place in a turbulent universe.

Icon Books. Introducing chaos" explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. Icon Books. Totem Books.

Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide

Totem Books. Icon Books. Icon Books. Totem Books. Totem Books. Icon. Introducing time traces the history of time from augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the static time of Einstein, full circle, the conventional time of Poincaré, and then back, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity.

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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Totem Books. Icon Books. Icon. Totem Books. Icon Books. Experiment. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise the appeal to ignorance. And lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result the argument from consequences.

Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions. Totem Books. A flawless compendium of flaws. Alice roberts, with furry animals!have you read or stumbled into one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, writer, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic really old-school, PhD, and presenter of The Incredible Human JourneyThe antidote to fuzzy thinking, anatomist, a la Aristotle.

Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who adorably commit every logical faux pas.

Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, free markets and possible ecological disaster, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, Plato, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, including Socrates, Hobbes and Kant, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, how do we define "rights", Aristotle, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

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Introducing Relativity: A Graphic Guide

Totem Books. Icon Books. Icon Books. Icon Books. This is a superlative, fascinating graphic account of Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, "Introducing Relativity" plots a visually accessible course through the thought experiments that have given shape to contemporary physics.

Einstein's legacy is reviewed in the most advanced frontiers of physics today - black holes, gravitational waves, the accelerating universe and string theory. Icon Books. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionize our view of the universe.

. Totem Books. Totem Books. Experiment. Scientists from newton to hawking add their unique contributions to this story, as we encounter Einstein's astounding vision of gravity as the curvature of space-time and arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful field equations. Icon.