
021/2025
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Rob Goodman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919530-a-mind-at-play
A Mind of Its Own Cordelia Fine, 2013
How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Shows the science behind the amazing ways your brain tricks you in everyday life. This work features stories and revealing psychology. It also includes chapters such as: The Immoral Brain, and The Weak-Willed Brain. 'A fascinating, funny, disconcerting and lucid book.'
The Dream of Reality: Heinz Von Foerster's Constructivism, Second Edition by Lynn Segal, 2001
What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, no objectivity at all, only our belief in them? What if our consciousness itself is an unconscious invention, constructed out of logic and language?
The Migraine Brain by Elaine McArdle, 2009
Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
A comprehensive book that explains how to cope with migraines by an esteemed neurologist.
You know that your migraine isn't just a headache. But you may not know that migraine actually is a neurological disease.
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau, 2023
An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified.
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Happy release day to Lydia Kang and PSEUDOSCIENCE
If you'd enjoy clever nonfiction written by a practicing medical doctor, check out this book and it's companion QUACKERY #books #amreading #nonfiction
https://bookshop.org/p/books/pseudoscience-an-amusing-history-of-our-enduring-love-for-crackpot-ideas-nate-pedersen/21529288
Daily #SmallPress #book: We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books): The history of how Black Chicagoans have led pop culture in America for decades.
https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-culture-products-9781641608305.php?page_id=21
Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe, 2024
Edited by Alexei A. Sharov & George E. Mikhailovsky
Pathways to the Origin and Evolition of Meanings in the Universe
The book explains why meaning is a part of the universe populated by life, and how organisms generate meanings and then use them for creative transformation of the environment and themselves.
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Interview with Nadia Odunayo on building #Goodreads alternative #StoryGraph with 3.8M active users
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/16/goodreads-amazon-nadia-odunayo-the-storygraph
Capsule Review Archive – Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-some-fruits-of-solitude-by-william-penn
2025 book thirteen: Mike Davis: City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals.
Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her...
Review of "He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters" by Schuyler Bailar
Read on my blog:
https://stardustrohrig.com/2025/02/17/he-she-they-review/
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