Category: Reviews

On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 When did human history begin? Most general histories pick som...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 The latest book of essays on neuroscience by Oliver Sacks looks at ...

Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change, by Bruce Wexler, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006 This book explains human difficulties with change, inc...

The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin, by Keith Stanovich. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Stanovich, a cognitive scientist at th...

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, by Sharon Begley The Brain That Changes Itself...

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, by Peter Ward. Collins, 2007. Under a Green Sky...

The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries, by Shannon Moffett. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. This overview of the cu...

I began reading The Echo Maker, the latest novel by Richard Powers, with high hopes, but overall it was a disappointment. Powers is an intelligent writer of amb...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, by Carl Sagan. Penguin, 2006. Carl Sagan’s death in December 1996 at the ag...

The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius, by Nancy Andreasen. Penguin, 2006. Creativity is something of a mystery. Where do brilliant innovative ideas come fro...