W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the... More about Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2008. Trade Paperback. The definitive firsthand account of the groundbreaking research of Philip Zimbardo--the basis for the award-winning film The Stanford Prison Experiment Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things... More about The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
All Points Books, June 2019. Hardcover. Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr... More about I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous...
Dover Publications, June 1953. Trade Paperback. Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more. More about Language and Myth
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains... More about Neuroplasticity (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Harpercollins, January 1987. Trade Paperback. More about The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all... More about Death and Life of Great American Cities
Duke University Press, April 2008. Trade Paperback. The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public"... More about The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
