Saturday, February 6, 2010

Harold A. Ellis, Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy (1988)

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Bernard Mandeville ( January 31 post ) and Henri Boulainvilliers may not have known of each other, but they were contemporaries, separated b...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of The Bees (1723)

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I first learned of Mandeville when reading Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment , a history of the 17 th century ideas that largely...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Gwyneth Cravens, Power To Save The World (2007)

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Three years ago, I heard a presentation by the head of the Nuclear Energy Institute about the history and then-current status of the nuclear...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Richard Powers, Generosity (2009)

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Two years ago, I read a wonderfully conceived novel by Richard Powers entitled The Echo Maker . Introducing his readers to some of the marve...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson, The Superorganism (2008)

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Human ( September 27 post ) , Mirroring People ( September 18 post ) , and The First Word ( August 31 post ) all stress the social nature ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Michael Gazzaniga, Human (2008)

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In the September 18th post , I concluded that a grander treatment of the subject of mirror neurons should be forthcoming someday, a volume t...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Marco Iacoboni, Mirroring People (2008)

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This important volume might have been titled The Feeling of What Happens (To Other People), but the neurology community would have immediate...