The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012 | Brain Pickings.
After the best science books, art books, and design books of 2012, the season’s subjective selection of best-of reading lists continues with the most stimulating philosophy, psychology, and creativity books published this year. (Catch up on last year’s roundup here.)
The Best Science Books of 2012 | Brain Pickings.
It’s that time of year again, the time for those highly subjective, grossly non-exhaustive, yet inevitable and invariably fun best-of reading lists. To kick off the season, here are, in no particular order, my ten favorite science books of 2012. (Catch up on last year’s reading list here.)
How to Read Like a Writer | Brain Pickings.
In Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (public library), Francine Prose sets out to explore “how writers learn to do something that cannot be taught” and lays out a roadmap to learning the art of writing not through some prescriptive, didactic methodology but by absorbing, digesting, and appropriating the very qualities that make great literature great — from Flannery O’Connor’s mastery of detail to George Eliot’s exquisite character development to Philip Roth’s magical sentence structure.
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity | Brain Pickings.
Are we really just a collection of “splinters and mosaics”?
