The latest selections are below. But you might also like to check out the special selections for science fiction, food and neuroscience.
Kill
As Few Patients As Possible
by Oscar London
The
Blood of Strangers
by Frank Huyler
A
History of Britain
by Simon Schama
10
X 10
by Haig Beck, et al
A comprehensive view of contemporary architecture, presenting the work of 100 exceptional international architects. It provides an opportunity to see a diverse, inspirational collection of recent work, selected by 10 of the world's best informed architectural critics.
What
Really Works
by Susan Clark
Change
Your Life with Accelerated Visualization
by Harold Kampf, Colin Wilson (Introduction)
Be
Your Own Life Coach
by Fiona Harrold
SuperTeaching
: Master Strategies for Building Student Success
by Eric P. Jensen
Father
Ted: the Complete Scripts
by Graham Linehan, Graham Mathews, Arthur Mathews
The
100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
by David Niven PhD
The
Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
by Joshua Piven, David Borgenict
The
Notebooks of Lazarus Long
by Robert A. Heinlein, D. F. Vassallo (Illustrator)
New Thinking for the New Millennium by Edward de Bono
The Biology of Success by Arnot
Who
Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change
In Your Work and In Your Life
The Best of
Frasier by Christopher Lloyd
The Best of Frasier is a compilation of 15 complete scripts from the first five series of the Emmy Award-winning show. From the pilot episode, "The Good Son", to the out-and-out farce of "The Matchmaker" and "The Ski Lodge" and the delightful parody "Last Tango in Seattle", each script is a work of comic genius that has established this show as one of the most consistently well-written and well-acted sit-coms on television.
Who Wrote the Book of Life? by Lily E. Kay
The Art of "Gormenghast" by Estelle Daniel, Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Stephen Fry
Betting on the Muse : Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski
Beowulf book by Seamus Heaney (Translator)
Or you may prefer the audiocassette (as I do):
Beowulf
audiocassette set
Seamus Heaney (Narrator)
The audiocassette (2 tape set) is very reasonably priced and has the advantage that it's read by the translator, who has an appropriate Celtic accent. He has lived and breathed the story during the time working on this prize-winning translation... and his reading reflects the deep thought he has put into the project. Strangely, the lyrical Irish accent also begins to bring to mind connotations of 20th century Irish problems, which adds an extra dimension to this millenial story. The audiocassette set is not the absolutely complete text, but at 2¼ hours it's a pretty big chunk and covers most of the highlights, including the famous Grendel story.
Computers and Internet - Web Design in a
Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst
The Giant Leap by Adrian Berry
Headline Paperback
Immortality : How Science Is Extending Your Life Span and Changing the World by Ben Bova
Avon Books Paperback
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells by Ben Bova
Writer's Digest Books Hardcover
Lady Lazarus by Maren Hancunt
Questing Beast Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive
scientists,
does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 bestseller, The
Language Instinct.
He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel,
and pursue
characteristically human callings in the arts, religion and philosophy. And he does this
with the wit
and verve that earned The
Language Instinct worldwide critical acclaim.
This book is about the human brain, though not directly about neurons and hormones; that
is because
the mind is not the brain, but what the brain does. Pinker's account is based on two
powerful ideas:
that mental activity is a form of computation, and that the neural computer that gives
rise to our
human nature was shaped by natural selection.
Pinker explains the mind by 'reverse-engineering' it - working out what natural selection
designed it to accomplish in the environment in which it evolved. The mind is a system of
'organs of computation', an information-processing device that evolved to allow our
ancestors
to understand and overcome objects, animals, plants, and each other.
Guided by these insights, Pinker challenges a variety of fashionable ideas about ourselves
and our behaviour: that passionate emotions are irrational; that parents are responsible
for
the personalities of their children; that creativity springs from the unconscious; that
art
and religion are expressions of our higher spiritual yearnings and that nature is good and
modern society corrupting.
How the Mind Works presents a grand synthesis of the most satisfying explanations of
mental life
that have been proposed in cognitive science and evolutionary biology, with insights from
disciplines
ranging from neuroscience to economics and social psychology.
A contribution to today's most exciting science, this is a fascinating, provocative and
thoroughly
entertaining book. It is one of a small number of books which deal with the often
counter-intuitive
conclusions of cutting edge cognitive science, while still being accessible to an
educated, non-specialist reader.
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press ISBN 0-713-991305
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Last update: 03 October 2004
