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Nancy E. Shaffer has been an experimental psychologist, a philosopher, and a software developer. She taught history and philosophy of science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Her philosophical work has appeared in the journal Philosophy of Science and her pop-culture philosophy website, All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series.

Her first novel, Dis/inhbition, turns a state university lab into an emotional crucible for exploring the complex relationship between a young neuroscientist and her mentor. Nancy is currently working on the first novel of a science fiction series, Aethersphere.

She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona. ...more

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Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber by Jamie Gehring
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Not what I expected. I listened to the audiobook version, which is read by the author. She has a sweet, feminine voice that is jarring at first simply because you get used to procedural books about crime and criminals read by voice actors taking on the gravitas of the law enforcement, legal, or psychology p

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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
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