A series of essays that read like an ode to science. Good poetry makes you feel your way to understanding, and these essays let you understand by feeling and just gives enough to whet you curiosity on the topic and give you further ideas for further listening.This book would make a great first scien...
bookshelves: essays, gr-library, nonfiction, published-2013, environmental-issues, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014, sciences, psychology, under-500-ratings, next, abandoned, skim-through Read on February 24, 2013 Arrogant title, let see what it delivers! 1. EVOLUTION BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTI...
Essentially a compilation of short articles by eminent scientists & academics about their favourite deep & elegant theories. There's a lot of ground covered from physics to sociology, so there's probably something of interest for everyone.
The book gave me more reasons why humans are different from anything else known in the universe and how we got that way.I've been looking for a book like this one which takes all the anomalies and traumas that have happened to individuals and weaves them all together in a coherent story about how ou...
A concise version of Ramachandran's "Phantoms in the Brain." This book is almost exactly the same. Read the other book for a more in-depth analysis of Ramachandran's neurological theories and studies. Also, this book is exactly the same as "A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness." I don't know why all ...
Mr. V.S. Ramachandran in this book quite misleadingly tells one more about what the brain is NOT than what it is - perfect. Sort of like a soup with way too much salt; the author promised us this soup of what must have been a conclusive hypothesis of what he knows, which he does about a select few ...
This book of collected essays asks the question, "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Many people, from Richard Dawkins to Brian Eno to professors you've never heard of (but are amazingly cool), contribute their ideas and theories.The essays are lovingly ordered so that ...
I had to read this for a psychology decision-making class, but this book has nothing to do with decision-making (I blame my teacher for that one). The book has five different chapters and lots of notes, taking a crack at different concepts of human consciousness. Each chapter addresses a different t...
I had to read this for a psychology decision-making class, but this book has nothing to do with decision-making (I blame my teacher for that one). The book has five different chapters and lots of notes, taking a crack at different concepts of human consciousness. Each chapter addresses a different t...
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