Peter Gelfan
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Found Objects
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2013
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Hurling Words into Darkness: A Book Doctor's Dose of Brain Science for Writers
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2021
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Monkey Temple: A novel
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Hurling Words Into Darkness: A Book Doctor's Dose of Brain Science for Writers
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Monkey Temple
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This is the most important and, if I may risk using this term, potentially the most paradigm-shifting book I’ve read in years. Anyone at all interested in a sociological view of history and the current state of the world should read it. A caveat: it i ...more |
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A very interesting and informative history of the evolution of mammals from their early forerunners, which predated dinosaurs, up to our present time. What a journey that was, and still is. The author, a fossil hunter and professor, manages to intert ...more | |
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Especially in these times of extreme dogmatism to the right and left, and of angry political disagreements hyper-amplified by social media, this book is both important and useful. It isn’t about how to win a debate, convince someone that your ideas a ...more | |
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This book consists of a series of standalone nontechnical scientific essays that explore the borderlines between what’s clearly alive, what might be, and what isn’t. The maybe-life substances and creatures (or non-creatures) are weird and fascinating ...more | |
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This book sums up the current state of physics as regards the makeup and workings of the universe we appear to be living in. The final and perhaps apparently unnecessary clause of my first sentence is what makes this book different from other books o ...more | |
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This book provides what it promises: a well-researched analysis of grit, and guidance as to how to get it and/or instill it in others. It’s well written in conversational English: easy reading yet precise in meaning. A weakness of the book, which she ...more |
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This book looks like and often reads like a textbook, complete with exercises at the end of chapters. But like its subject matter, it has some twists and paradoxes. To begin with, the topic itself has a paradoxical definition: critical thinking is th ...more | |
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A very informative and useful book. The author makes the almost inscrutable immune system hazily understandable to those who haven’t been to med school—and that’s a huge step forward. The book takes in the whole system, not just one or two trendy com ...more | |
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The last line of the book well sums up its gist: “We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.” This exhilarating, iconoclastic work doesn’t so much proclaim a new version of humanity’s prehistoric development but rather shows that what we hav ...more | |
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The last line of the book well sums up its gist: “We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.” This exhilarating, iconoclastic work doesn’t so much proclaim a new version of humanity’s prehistoric development but rather shows that what we hav ...more | |