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Science with Street Value - A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track - cover

Science with Street Value - A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track

Theodore Modis

Publisher: ibidem

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Summary

In his groundbreaking book Predictions, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena.  Now he pushes his physics-applied-to-life approach further to show that some fundamental truths cast into scientific laws are ubiquitous and enter our lives in subtle ways that we may not be aware of.  In a kind of twenty-first century version of Plato's Dialogues he offers new insights on life's many possibilities and ambiguities everywhere from managing business and personal relationships to finding purpose in one's existence. 

This book will titillate the mind of all science-friendly readers.
Available since: 10/20/2020.
Print length: 240 pages.

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