Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2007)

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A debate has raged over the past fifteen years as to whether music is an adaptation, a trait that emerged as a result of an evolutionary pro...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools (2011)

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The subtitle of Robert Trivers ' tome to his nearly lifelong obsession with deceit is The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Li...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000)

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I am not a music scholar. I enjoy listening to music, and I enjoy playing music. But I have never taken the time to study music as much as I...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Jose Saramago, Cain (2011)

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The story of Cain in Genesis is brief: No more than 30 or so sentences over 25 verses. Cain, the first child of Adam and Eve, is born and h...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks reports about a significant development in medical research that occurred during the 1950s and continue...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (2010)

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While I am not uninformed or without experience on the subject of this book --- Jewish identity --- I am probably not qualified to address i...
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...