The Bookshelf
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Roberto Saviano, Beauty and The Inferno (2012)
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In All The Names , Jose Saramago tells the story of a civil servant in an unnamed city of an unnamed country charged with maintaining the b...
Monday, August 12, 2013
George Saunders, Tenth of December (2013)
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I rarely read a short story. I respect that writing a good short story can be as challenging, if not more challenging in many respects as w...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Michael Gazzaniga, Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain (2011)
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What do we want to be free from? That is the question that drives Michael Gazzaniga's inquiry about free will and the science of the b...
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven, The Archaeology of Mind, Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (2012)
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At its most fundamental level, the neurosensory system of every animal, including humans, is a physiological system related to monitoring ou...
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution (2012)
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A recurring theme running through the posts on this blog is the recognition of a unit of information as the fundamental units of physical n...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)
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Edward O. Wilson's research on eusociality led him to identify the nest as a common attribute among the eusocial species. Although no...
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