{"product_id":"the-last-unknowns-deep-elegant-profound-unanswered-questions-about-the-universe-the-mind-the-future-of-civilization-and-the-meaning-9780062897947","title":"The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover the universe's last unknowns--here are the unanswered questions that obsess \"the world's finest minds\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a little book of profound questions (\u003cem\u003eonly\u003c\/em\u003e questions!)--unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. 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GRAYLING - Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e- anthropologist MARY CATHERINE BATESON - \u003cem\u003eEmotional Intelligence\u003c\/em\u003e author DANIEL GOLEMAN\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e- Harvard genticist GEORGE CHURCH\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e- \u003cem\u003eBlueprint\u003c\/em\u003e author NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e- Stanford political scientist MARGARET LEVI - economist ALAN S. 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