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new book – ‘The Big Questions’ by Steven E. Landsburg by My Mind on Books on Oct 30, 2009The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics by Steven E. Landsburg (Free Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: In the wake of his enormously popular books Th...

‘Fall of Sleep’ by Jean-Luc Nancy by My Mind on Books on Oct 28, 2009Found via the Book Bench at the New Yorker: Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Charlotte Mandell (Fordham University Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a use...

new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’ by My Mind on Books on Oct 25, 2009The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind by John S. Allen (Harvard University Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for insta...

new from Malcolm Gladwell – ‘What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures’ by My Mind on Books on Oct 22, 2009What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, a collection of his New Yorker articles (Little, Brown, 2009). (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: What is the difference between choking and panicking? W...

new “Case for Books” by Robert Darnton by My Mind on Books on Oct 21, 2009The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by historian Robert Darnton (PublicAffairs, 2009). (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological...

new book – ‘The Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom’ by My Mind on Books on Oct 17, 2009Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius (New Harbinger, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had br...

new book – ‘Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things’ by My Mind on Books on Oct 16, 2009Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things by Ann Taves (Princeton University Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: The essence of religion was once wid...