Excellent list, Annette. You might find that these fit well with your
recommendations:
Gilovich, T., How we know what isn't so.
Dennett, D., Darwin's dangerous idea.
and shoot, I can't think of the other one I had in mind... Maybe it'll come
back to me.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
Here is the list I give my students.
You can get good summaries at www.amazon.com along with some pretty good
reviews. Many can be ordered tthere at a discount.
Stanovich, K., How to Think Straight About Psychology
This is a good general introduction to the concept that psychology
must
Jeff Ricker wrote:
> In no particular order, here are a few of the books waiting
> for me this summer.
I'm finishing off Lawrence Walsh's "Firewall: The Iran-Contra
Conspiracy and Cover-up", and starting Douglas Hofstadter's "Le Ton beau de
Marot" (about cognition, language and transla
Tipsters -
I've done these all as audiobooks:
The Mind's Sky - Timothy Ferris
The Best American Science Writing, 2000 - edited by James Glieck
Squandering Aimlessly - David Brancaccio
Zero - Charles Seife
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser (you'll never eat at McDonald's again.)
Flu - Gina Ko
Somebody wrote:
>Whatever happened to summer reading list recommendations?
>I guess someone finally saw the light and is no longer
>recommending this type of bourgeois (sp) activity.
Nope, your spelling is just fine. In fact, it suggests that, at some
point in your life, reading may not have be
