General Greatness - A Reading List

The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century” (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.<br />

On June 24, 1993, David Gelernter opened a package that exploded, blowing off most of his right hand and damaging his hearing, eyesight, and chest. Ironically, the perpetrator, the technology-phobic "mad genius" we know as the Unabomber, managed to punish one of the very few people who are deeply sk

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, a

<b>From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines</b><br /><br />Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. No

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human r

If Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone are so smart, why are their stocks long-term losers? <br /> We live in the age of big Media, with the celebrity moguls telling us that "content is king." But for all the excitement, glamour, drama, and publicity they produce, why can't these moguls and their com

<b>The author of <i>The Willpower Instinct</i> delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. </b><br /> <br />More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Sta