Some books

Wed, 04/14/2010 - 22:05 — Geert

I like to read. I can't imagine life without books. I have been reading ever since elementary school and I still remember some of the first books I borrowed from the local library.

Nowadays I seldom visit the library, I buy most of my books. That way they are always available, ready when I need them, to browse randomly, to look something up or occasionally reread some of them.

Here are some books I recommend, because I think they can add to your understanding of life, the world, mankind.

'Collapse' and 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jarred Diamond
'After the Ice', 'The Singing Neanderthals' and 'The Prehistory of the Mind' by Steven Mithen
'How the Mind works' and of course 'The Blank Slate' by Steven Pinker
'The Ancestor's Tale' by Richard Dawkins
'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin
'The Malay Archipelago' by Alfred Russel Wallace
'Out of Eden' by Stephen Oppenheimer
'The Incredible Human Journey' by Alice Roberts
'Evolution' by Donald Prothero

There you go. You might want to start reading these books and stop bickering about websites.

Probably I will think of more books later, so come back to check this list from time to time.

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Thu, 04/22/2010 - 18:36 — Eliisa

One book more

I have been reading very interesting book about our shadow writen by James Hollis: "Why Good People Do Bad Things". There are so many things in each of us we simply can`t see. So we see those things in the other human being.

"How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal story, our societal history so bloody, so repetitive, so injurious to self and others, so self-defeating? This book operates from a central thesis that is relatively unknown to the general public but is a truism for depth psychology, namely, that the human psyche is not a single, unitary, or unified thing, as the ego wants us to believe. It is diverse, multiplicitous, and divided... always divided."

Thu, 04/22/2010 - 20:26 — Geert