So Smart But...: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility ...
Author: Allen N. Weiner Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1 EAN: 9780787985745 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0787985740 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2006-10-16 [... more]
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Modern Classics Interpreting Dreams
From Amazon.com: Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that [... more]
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Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of ...
on science, simplicity, and the quest for truth...: Dan Falk's Universe on a T-Shirt is an informative and entertaining tour of mainstream science-from Democritus to string theory-guided by a single, reining principle: that science is the pursuit of an [... more]
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Penguin Lives Simone Weil
From Amazon.com: Writing with her customary grace and acuity, Francine du Plessix Gray, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated At Home with the Marquis de Sade, examines an equally extreme character at the opposite end of the moral spectrum in Simone [... more]
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Best of Annal Improbable Research
From Amazon.com: "Science is too human, too much fun, and too important not to laugh at it." The Annals of Improbable Research (and its predecessor, the Journal of Irreproducible Results) has been making fun of science and scientists for [... more]
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The Ultimate Resource 2
From Amazon.com: Julian L. Simon is the world's greatest contrarian. The Ultimate Resource 2--an update, not a sequel, despite the title--skewers the sacred cows of environmentalism, population control, and Paul Ehrlich. In the contest between resource [... more]
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Universe On A T Shirt
on science, simplicity, and the quest for truth...: Dan Falk's Universe on a T-Shirt is an informative and entertaining tour of mainstream science-from Democritus to string theory-guided by a single, reining principle: that science is the pursuit of an [... more]
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Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and ...
From Amazon.com: With neuroscience steadily replacing psychology, philosophy, and even religion as a model of self-understanding, it's time we take a look back at the history and meaning of this curious branch of research. Washington University historian [... more]
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Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Not the Best Thing since Sliced Bread: This is a nice little interesting book, but I can't agree with the effusive praise it's garnered. Brown does have some useful things to say, and his analysis is more balanced than that of many commentators on the [... more]
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The Power of Minds at Work: Organizational Intelligence ...
Recommended for \oAspiring\c Leaders: Employers are plagued by a dearth of leadership. Too many companies are populated by people who can't think for themselves and, worse, by people who can think but don't. Today, when brainpower is so critical to an [... more]
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The Book of Prefaces
From Amazon.com: The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." There is the author's attempt to [... more]
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The White Separatist Movement in the United States: ...
Finally a non-bias look at white pride: It's really refreshing to read a book that doesn't reinforce the stereotype that pro-white groups/individuals are inbred, backwoods, barefoot rednecks that wear stupid costumes. (...) I couldn't put this book down. [... more]
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