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Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since Darwin and *The Descent of Man*, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in *Catching Fire*, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our ...
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Whether itÔÇÖs in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive┬ùbut deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alie...
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Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, OffitÔÇöwho drew antivaccinist fire for Autism's False ProphetsÔÇöpresents a smart...
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SUMMARY: Explaining the intricacies of warp speed and showing the difference between a holodeck and a hologram, an easy-to-understand introduction to the arcane world of physics from a renowned physicist uses Star Trek to build and frame his discu...
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Paul Harris, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
ÔÇ£Simon Baron-Cohen displays once again his ability to bring science to bear on troubling and controversial issu...
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String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Sp...
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Consciousness, mind, brain, self: the relations among these four entities are explored by German cognitive scientist and theoretical philosopher Metzinger, who argues that, in fact, there is no such thing as a self....
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"Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call ""symbols."" The most central and complex symbol is the one you cal...
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Warren, a law professor at Harvard (The Fragile Middle Class) and her daughter Tyagi, a former McKinsey consultant, have joined forces here to argue here that the two-parent middle-class working family is on the ...
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Americans call the Second World War ┬ôThe Good War.ÔÇØ But before it even began, AmericaÔÇÖs wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens┬ùand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally d...
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One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat W...
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Nearly 50 years after Betty Friedan transformed the lives of American housewives, Coontz (Marriage, a History, 2005) offers a biography of FriedanÔÇÖs seminal book, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Coupling meticulous research with fi...
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Joseph J. Ellis, author of *First Family: Abigail and John Adams*
ÔÇ£Brookhiser brings his succinct style to bear on the only founder more elusive than Jefferson.┬á The result is a distinctive portrait...
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Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history....
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Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of...
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Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analy...
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The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics—these are the foundations of Western civilization. ...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, Genera...
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Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the *Times Literary Supplement*, *Anarchy, State and Utopia* remains one of the most theoretically trenchant an...
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In this fifth edition of *Basic Economics*, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they expla...
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About this book:In 1993, as a 23-year-old correspondent covering the wars in the Balkans, I was initially comforted by the roar of NATO planes flying overhead. President Clinton and other western leaders had sent the planes to monitor the Bosnian ...
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The process of "self-organization" reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals and seashells, but, as Len Fisher shows, it is also evident in living organisms, from fish to ants to human beings. Understanding the "swarm intelligence" inhere...
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