Books reviewed by Matthew Belmonte


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new titles for 1999

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line, by Thomas F Gieryn
Of Flies, Mice and Men, by François Jacob
A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome, by Howard Kushner

new titles for 1998

Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul, by Jonathan Lear
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture, by Frank R Wilson

new titles for 1997

How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker
The Island of the Colorblind, by Oliver Sacks
Judith's Pavilion, by Marc Flitter

new titles for 1996

The Emotional Brain, by Joe LeDoux

new titles for 1995

Thinking in Pictures, And Other Reports from My Life with Autism, by Temple Grandin

new titles for 1994

Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind, by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin
Brainmakers: How Scientists Are Moving Beyond Computers to Create a Rival to the Human Brain, by David H Freedman
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life, by Claus Emmeche, translated by Steven Sampson
The Myth of Irrationality: The Science of the Mind from Plato to Star Trek, by John McCrone
When the Clock Struck Zero: Science's Unfathomable Universe, by John G Taylor
Overcoming Math Anxiety, by Sheila Tobias
Mathopedia: The Omni Guide to Math for Everyone, by Edmund Ferrell
The Only Math Book You'll Ever Need, by Stanley Kogelman and Barbara R Heller
Receptors, by Richard Restak
The Astonishing Hypothesis, by Francis Crick