This Christmas you have a variety of holiday books to choose from and all are certain to bring a little Christmas joy to you or that tyke in your life who likes a good bedtime story. Julia Livshin collected 16 classic tales to include in her book, Classic Christmas Stories: Sixteen Timeless Yuletide Tales. The stories include well-known and loved tales such as O. Henry's "The … [Read more...]
Trust your gut, value your intuition
Part of the research behind Malcolm Gladwell's remarkable best-seller, Blink, was done by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Now, Gerd Gigerenzer provides an engaging explanation of the science behind it in his new book, Gut Feelings. Gigerenzer illustrates how the key concept centers on rules of thumb and how such rules serve us well in the analytical … [Read more...]
What the world would be like without people?
Just 200 years ago man saw himself as an agent of improvement on the earth, making it bloom and grow. But, today, a flurry of new books suggest that man sees himself as the earth's problem, not the solution. In this latest entry into the human apocalypse genre, journalist Alan Weisman asks the question: What would happen to the earth, if we were suddenly gone? Weisman … [Read more...]