Sunday, November 20, 2011

Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid's Window (2001)

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This blog is, in part, an effort to connect dots --- particularly among the books that have come off my Bookshelf. A number of dots connecte...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)

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The year is 1719 . The scene is London, England. King George I, recently arrived from Germany, sits on the throne of England. Unlike the Fre...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind (Rev. 2010)

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Five postings in 2011 on books and subjects related to the mind and brain, and I was consciously aware of that fact and a desire to move on ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain (2011)

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My original expectations for this book never materialized, but still there was much learned . From my cursory examination in the bookstore, ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Daniel Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory (2001)

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I started this blog, in small part, because I could not always recall when I read a book and what I got out of it. I thought about making no...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

William Shakespeare, King Lear (1607)

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The most powerful of human senses is vision. For this reason, it is perhaps not surprising that that some of the most powerful stories of th...
Monday, August 15, 2011

James Gleick, The Information (2011)

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If there is one book that touches so many of the posts in this blog, it is James Gleick 's The Information. Covering much of the territ...