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Howard Burton
In-depth conversations with eminent physicists offering unique perspectives into the world of frontline research.
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Five award-winning, carefully-edited conversations with 5 word-leading biologists.
Five in-depth conversations with eminent historians: David Cannadine, Michael Gordin, Margaret Jacob, Teofilo Ruiz, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: David Bellos, Michael Berry, Nick Couldry, Denis McQuail, Carol Padden.
Five carefully-edited conversations offering behind-the-scenes insights into the world of neuroscience featuring 5 leading neuroscientists.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: Patricia Churchland, James R. Brown, Alfred Mele, Charles Foster, Scott Soames.
Five wide-ranging conversations offering unique insights into the world of social psychology featuring 4 social psychologists and a top tennis player.
Five award-winning, carefully-edited conversations on the history of ideas with 4 leading intellectual historians and a bestselling author.
How did America reach its present state of striking dysfunctionality, and what can be done about it? Howard Burton offers his unique perspective on the raging culture war in the…
An insightful and provocative observation of the inner workings of UNESCO by the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Howard Burton describes his early experiences of moving with his family to a medieval hilltop village called Le Pouget in Languedoc after his years of running Perimeter Institute in Canada.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading physicists: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert, Tony Leggett, David Politzer, Paul Steinhardt.
Five wide-ranging conversations with eminent historians: Linda Colley, John Elliott, Richard Janko, Maria Mavroudi, Jay Rubenstein.
Five wide-ranging conversations with eminent historians: David Armitage, Karl Gerth, Jennifer M. Hecht, Margaret MacMillan, Matthew Stewart.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: Nita Farahany, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Julian Roberts, Elizabeth Loftus, Elyn Saks.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading philosophers: Susan Wolf, Brian Epstein, Onora O'Neill, Susan James, Hasana Sharp
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading physicists: Freeman Dyson, Jenny Nelson, Claudia de Rham, Lee Smolin, Jill Tarter.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: Mark Bevir, John Dunn, Jacques Bertrand, Michael Frazer, Josiah Ober.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: Diana Deutsch, Chris Frith, Stephen Hinshaw, Stephen Kosslyn, Jonathan Schooler.
Five wide-ranging conversations with leading scholars: Ellen Bialystok, Victor Ferreira, Uta Frith, Gregory Hickok, Martin Monti.
Five wide-ranging conversations with renowned experts: Nile Green, Miri Rubin, David Hollinger, Eleanor Nesbitt, David J. Goldberg.
Five wide-ranging conversations with celebrated researchers: Joanna Haigh, Andy Hoffman, Edie Widder, Charles Sheppard.
Five wide-ranging conversations with top experts: Frans de Waal, Ian Stewart, Mark Maslin, Joseph Curtin & Fred Gitelman.
Inspired by Lewis Thomas, Howard Burton takes us on a thought-provoking tour of a wide range of key societal issues, from biology to politics to contemporary morality.
A five-part compendium featuring leading experts in a wide range of disciplines from primatology to acoustics.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge astrophysics and cosmology written for scholars, students and general readers.
A five-part compendium featuring leading researchers providing fully accessible, inspiring insights into their work and their academic journeys.
A five-part book set featuring leading historians in different fields of history.
A five-part compendium featuring eminent historians providing fully accessible, inspiring insights into their work and their academic journeys.
This compendium includes the following 5 complete books featuring emiment historians David Armitage, Karl Gerth, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Margaret MacMillan and Matthew Stewart providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic…
A five-part compendium featuring celebrated researchers providing fully accessible, inspiring insights into their work and their academic journeys.
A five-part compendium featuring leading legal scholars providing fully accessible, inspiring insights into their work and their personal academic journeys.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into front-line research of leading neuroscientists written for scholars, students and general readers.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research of leading philosophers written for general readers, students and scholars.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research of leading physicists written for general readers, students and scholars.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research of leading political scientists written for general readers, students and scholars.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research of leading psychologists written.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research of leading psychologists.
A five-part compendium providing fully accessible insights into the research into different religions.
A 5-part compendium featuring in-depth conversations with world-renowned psychologists and a professional tennis-player.
Insightful and playful reflections on a wide range of chess-related issues which Howard Burton encountered while being a "tourist" in the chess world during the production of his 4-part docuseries…
Founding Director Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada.
In-depth conversations with 4 leading researchers in atmospheric physics, sustainability, marine biology, coral reefs and more.
