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March 23
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin
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read in February, 2008
Stew said:
"If you love music or even are interested in dance, how we communicate, how chuildren respond in the womb, and a myriad of related topics, you will likely be fascinated by this book which (to greatly simplify it) attempts to explain how we respond t...more
If you love music or even are interested in dance, how we communicate, how chuildren respond in the womb, and a myriad of related topics, you will likely be fascinated by this book which (to greatly simplify it) attempts to explain how we respond to music, why it is so important to socities for so long, etc. Levitin relates music to language, movement, opioid rushes, and even sex and "mating displays" . Levitin is brilliant--not only in his knowledge (which stretches over a large number of subjects--which he manages to inter-relate) but also in his ability to make some very complicated concepts accessible (by and large) to the average reader. He discusses music in terms of almost every conceivable type of artist--and seems to know the Stones' stuff as intimately as classical, or Santana. This is a DENSELY packed book--I appreciated it more by reading only a few pages at a time. But it is an absolutely original book, which will open your eyes (and ears) to something so fundamental and critical to our lives (music), but that most of us have never been able to get our arms around, no less put into words. A brilliant work....less
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October 31
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The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution (Hardcover)
by Tim Severin
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recommended for: people interested in exotic travel, naturalism
read in September, 2007
Stew said:
"Interesting "re-creation" of Alfred Russel Wallace's 1850's voyages to remote Eastern Indonesia. Interest limited to those who like exotic travel, adventure travel, exotic birds and animals, natural history
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Plaisir D'Amour: An Erotic Memoir of Paris in the 1920s (Hardcover)
by Anne-Marie Villefranche
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