Search - List of Books by John Brockman
John Brockman (born 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields.
- "Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time." [1]
- "Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody." [2]
- (1969) By the Late John Brockman
- (1988) Doing Science: The Reality Club
- (1995) Beyond the Scientific Revolution ISBN 0684823446
- (1996) Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite
- (1996) How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind (edited by John Brockman and Katinka Matson), Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0688149512
- (2002) Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century ISBN 0375713425
- (2003) The New Humanists: Science at the Edge ISBN 0-7607-4529-3
- (2004) Curious minds : how a child becomes a scientist (edited by John Brockman), New York : Pantheon Books. ISBN 0375422919
- (2006) Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8
- (2006) Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement ISBN 0-307-27722-4
- (2007) Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable ISBN 0061214957
- (2007) Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better ISBN 0061436933
- (2009) Ideas That Will Shape the Future (with Patrick Bateson, Oliver Morton , Stephen Schneider, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, K. Eric Drexler, among others) ISBN 978-0061899676
Total Books: 47