Book Review: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love, Levine & Heller Nonfiction: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love, by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller Despite its subtitle, Attached is in […]
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Nonfiction: Books to Grow & Learn
In this category, Books for Growing & Learning, you will find nonfiction and resources in topics such as cooking and crafts as well as science and current events. This section is for readers to feed both the mind and body with ideas and activities for thoughtful contemplation or personal development.
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Book Review: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, Alan Lightman
Book Review: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, Alan Lightman Nonfiction Science: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, Alan Lightman Theoretical physicist. Novelist. Professor of both science and humanities. These are the biographical bona fides of Alan Lightman, author of National Book Award Finalist novel “Einstein’s Dreams.” But the author of Searching […]
The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke
Book Review: The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Lucy Cooke Nonfiction Science: The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Lucy Cooke Lucy Cooke’s engaging book The Truth About Animals is one of those delightful books […]
Book Review: Tulipomania, Mike Dash
Book Review: Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, Mike Dash Nonfiction History: Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, Mike Dash What could be more “spring” than the tulip? Sprouting up through the snows of March and April, the […]
Book Review: The Myth of Race, Robert Wald Sussman
Book Review: The Myth of Race, Robert Wald Sussman The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Robert Wald Sussman In “The Myth of Race,” Robert Wald Sussman traces the history of racist philosophy through America. This was a very troubling and challenging book. Racism is hard to eradicate. Scientific evidence […]
Book Review: What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, Adam Becker
Book Review: What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, Adam Becker A basic thought experiment from the early days of quantum theory has meandered into the mainstream. As usually happens with these sorts of transfers into the common understanding, it is only partially understood and that part is more […]
Book Review: Nudge, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Nonfiction: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein I’ll admit, I was hoping to read Nudge and get much smarter about making decisions. That is not exactly what the book delivers. […]
Book Review: Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, Scott Kelly
Book Review: Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, Scott Kelly Nonfiction Memoir: Many people were surprised to read that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA had changed during his year in space. Among the surprised was Scott Kelly himself, who tweeted, “What? My DNA changed by 7%! Who knew? I just learned […]
Book Review: Political Tribes, Amy Chua
Book Review: Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, Amy Chua Nonfiction: Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, Amy Chua Tribalism is a form of macro-group identification that runs much deeper in the human psyche than we may realize. Humans are hard-wired to belong. Group identification starts in […]