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Damasio, A July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
In an important, gracefully written exploration of the neurochemical basis of mind, neurologist Damasio rejects the Cartesian notion of the human mind as a thinking organ more or less separate...
Crick, F July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Crick (co-discoverer with James Watson of DNA’s double helix structure) here takes readers to the forefront of modern brain research. Geared to serious lay readers...
Dershowitz, A July 27, 2007. #
From Booklist
This author, if it needs explaining, is a renowned lawyer and Harvard law professor, author of several best-selling books, and an abiding advocate and defender of personal rights and freedoms. Although he...
Cialdini, R.B July 27, 2007. #
Amazon.com
Arguably the best book ever on what is increasingly becoming the science of persuasion. Whether you’re a mere consumer or someone weaving the web of persuasion to urge others to buy or vote for your product,...
Shanks, N July 27, 2007. #
From Booklist
University professor Shanks is an impassioned defender of evolution. He is animated by the progress he believes evolution’s critics are making in injecting creationism into American society, particularly...
Chalmers, D.J July 27, 2007. #
From Library Journal
Chalmers (philosophy, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz) analyzes the mind-body problem in terms of that elusive relationship between the physical brain and conscious events. Focusing on subjective...
Broks, P. July 27, 2007. #
Book Description
A finalist for The Guardian First Book Award, Into the Silent Land is a stunning look into how the human brain constructs a “self,” or the essence of who we are as individuals. A neuropsychologist with...
Russell, B July 27, 2007. #
From Amazon
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself—questions about man’s place in the universe...
Boyer, P July 27, 2007. #
Washington Post Book World : A splendid, rigorously documented treatise, as up to date as the morning newspaper…No book provides more comprehensive information about the awesome degree to which Biblical literalism and...
Bok, S. July 27, 2007. #
A thoughtful addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.
Block, N., O. Flanagan, and G. Güzeldere July 27, 2007. #
Amazon.com
Almost everyone agrees that we possess consciousness, but as this book demonstrates, that’s where the agreement ends. What can we say about the mind without fear of contradiction? Not much, and that’s how...
Berman, P July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
Berman puts his leftist credentials (he’s a member of the editorial board of Dissent) on the line by critiquing the left while presenting a liberal rationale for the war on terror, joining a...
Blakemore, C. and S. Jennett (Eds.) July 27, 2007. #
From Library Journal
Another in the “Oxford Companion” series (it was preceded in the sciences by companions to the mind in 1987 and to medicine in 1986), this is a beautifully produced tome comprising over 1000...
Jacoby, S July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
Is America really one nation under God? Not according to Pulitzer Prize–finalist Jacoby (Wild Justice, etc.), who argues that it is America’s secularist “freethinkers” who formed the bedrock upon...
Becker, E July 27, 2007. #
New York Times Book Review
...a brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure…
The Chicago Sun-Times
It is hard to overestimate the importance of this book;...
Bauby, J.D July 27, 2007. #
Amazon.com
We’ve all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing—a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir,...
Gorenberg, G July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
Although Gorenberg, an Israeli journalist, does not specifically address the recent violence at Temple Mount/Al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, anyone who seeks to understand the root of the...
Ainslie, G July 27, 2007. #
Book Description
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than...
Dennett, D July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a scientific, rational...
Hitchens, C July 27, 2007. #
From Publishers Weekly
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political...
Dawkins, R July 27, 2007. #
From Scientific American
Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions...
Manchester, W July 1, 2007. #
Amazon.com
It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that “in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the...
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