Category: Reviews

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya This book is framed as one philosopher’s search for answers to midlife’s unease. I think it says as...

Teach Yourself to Meditate in 10 Simple Lessons: Discover Relaxation and Clarity of Mind in Just Minutes a Day, by Eric Harrison This is far and away the most a...

Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows, seemed to me to be something of a missing manual for human thinking. Even though we live in a world of com...

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live, by Marlene Zuk The myth of the golden age dies hard. People who espouse a Paleo l...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams, documentary film by Werner Herzog, 2010 This documentary is almost certainly as close as you will ever get to exploring the Chauvet Ca...

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by Cordelia Fine I enjoy seeing images and reading descriptions of how people pe...

Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions, by Eric Maisel and Ann Maisel. Eric Maisel is a psychotherapist and a well-known creativity coach, wi...

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, by Daniel Nettle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 I have to confess that I’ve felt an irrational attach...

iBrain: Surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind, by Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. If you are looking for a good b...

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling New York: Basic Books, 2008 Until a couple of years ago, I lived in an apartment complex on the IU campus....