This was a pretty interesting book. The first part did not grab me. I trudged through thinking that I just had to read it for book club, but the the second part opened up for me. The second part went into the history of new ways of communicating from writing to the blackberry and what differen...
I had to read this for school last year and I was surprised. I'm glad to see this being incorporated into regular English school curriculum. It was a different summer read because it wasn't fiction, instead, straight quotes from philosophers and further discussion of each separate viewpoint/idea ...
I found this book to be extremely enchanting and filled with magnificent insight. There were times when it was hard to read because it put me in an uncomfortable place about my view of the world, but only the best books will make you step back to question the life you are leading. I would absolut...
Damasio, “How the Brain Creates the Mind,” in Best of the Brain from Scientific American, ed. Floyd E. Bloom (New York: Dana Press, 2007), pp. 58–67. “It all depends”: William James, “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,” On Some of Life’s Ideals (New York: Henry Holt, 1912), p. 37.13 William ...