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An arresting, memorable tale, astonishingly well told. Room is the story of 5-year-old Jack,and his Ma, who live as captives of a man Jack knows only as "old Nick", a name he once heard on television for a scary man who appears only at nig...
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Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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| Why us? What made one particular ape evolve into what we now are? Hrdy convincingly argues that cooperative parenting is what set the stage. A baby with many carers needs to grasp critical social skills. Hrdy draws upon evidence from the usual suspec...more | |
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By now, Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things is a classic text on what we have learned to call user-friendly design. Twenty-first century readers will no doubt find it dated (see references to"computer mail"), but it is truly a must-r...
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This book purports to elucidate the meaning of Te (virtue/power) via an analysis of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. But it’s mostly just Hoff complaining about modern life, with little apparent structure or unifying theme. And he’s not very good at it: ...
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Yikes. I had hoped that Hoff would grow in the ten years after Tao of Pooh. He did: he grew batshit.
Hoff starts with a good-old-days rant about Man living in Harmony with Nature and Spirits and whatnot before a Great Separation which caused deserts...more |
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Pooh is my role model. I reread Milne's books every year or two, and always get something new out of them. So I had really hoped to enjoy Tao of Pooh... but I didn't. I still love the idea of this book, just not this particular implementation.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Advertisers and politicians know this stuff. We should know it too.
Kahneman documents the almost paradoxical differences between our "automatic" thinking (à la Gladwell's "Blink") and our "rational" (prefrontal cortex) selves. How the automatic sys...more |
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| Better than I had expected. Rather hamfisted, and the main character is totally a Mary Sue... but I found myself enjoying the story and the characters. Larsson had a strong sense of justice and moral outrage, and dammit it's just fun to watch some üb...more | |
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