Halfway through the year, almost, and there have already been some seriously good books published that will appear on a lot of top-ten lists in December. Some of those books are below, but there also a lot of books below no one will have heard of about side of their respective fields, books from academic … Read more
Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (2013), and in this article for The New Republic she takes a look back at 50 years since the publication of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written by Joanne Greenberg. One of the issues raised about the book since it … Read more
From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog comes this interesting assortment of links on all things atheism and faith. One of the highlights is a Julian Baggini review (in The Guardian) of Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer. Another interesting link is from Steven Douglas Smith (University of San Diego School of Law), Is God … Read more
Ed Berge has been reviewing the new book from Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, over at his Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum. All of the individual posts from that thread have been organized into a lengthy article that was posted at Integral World. … Read more
Disturbing to hear all of this out loud, usually these thoughts about how unjust the Amerikan legal system is are only in my head. Matt Taibbi’s new book is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (2014). Here is the publisher’s blurb for the book: Over the last two decades, America … Read more
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). His previous books include The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (2009) and The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, … Read more
Bruce Hood is the author of The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity (2012). His new book is The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction, and he was at The RSA in England recently to talk about the new book. Bruce Hood on the Domesticated Brain 7th May 2014 Listen to the audio (full … Read more
A long and interesting interview with Steven Pinker from the Harvard Gazette. Pinker is the author of a lot of really, really thick books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2012), The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on the Thomas Piketty phenomenon, Can Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Inspire Real Change? It was a popular post. So here is more, since there seems to be no shortage of media coverage of the man and his book and the right-wing hysteria he has … Read more
This week’s episode of the Shrink Rap Radio podcast features Pat Ogden, the founder behind Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Her first, landmark book is Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (2006). Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, is due out in spring, 2014 Shrink Rap Radio #399 – Trauma and … Read more