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The Road - Cormac McCarthy 23 Replies
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Books about Music (I want to read) 3 Replies
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Orwell Diaries 2 Replies
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What is the man?
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Harry Potter in French 2 Replies
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Stephen Dedalus or Leopold Bloom? 5 Replies
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Comment by peter thoegersen 53 minutes ago - Vonnegut and Bukowski. Faulkner (no college degree). Solzhenitsyn. Greeks. Blake. Amit Goswami (too far out for most) Germans. Knut Hamsun. Books on quantum mechanics. Buddhism. The Holographic Universe? The Tao of Physics! Alan Watts!!!!! Burroughs...so many.
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Comment by peter thoegersen 1 hour ago
- Who likes Wally Berry's Structural Functions in music? He seems to be reinventing the wheel, but at least tried to address texture and rhythm.
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Comment by peter thoegersen 1 hour ago
- If youre caught reading then youre not composing and trying to be world famous.
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Comment by David Rubenstein on December 4, 2009 at 8:55pm - Looks like an awe-inspiring book.
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Comment by John "Sparky" Prokop on December 4, 2009 at 3:37pm -
And now a word about a fabulous new book:
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Comment by adam kondor on November 24, 2009 at 12:40pm -
a raft of new research in humans suggests that oxytocin underlies the twin emotional pillars of civilized life, our capacity to feel empathy and trust.
Natalie Angier in the NYT
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Comment by adam kondor on November 23, 2009 at 8:25am
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so, empathy at its extremes:
"On July 5th, a twenty-two-year-old C.L.T. member named Britnee Brown, who has been with the company for a little more than a year, took a call that was a record five hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-one seconds long, from a woman on the East Coast interested in Masai Barefoot Technology shoes"
Be humble!
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Comment by adam kondor on November 22, 2009 at 11:43am
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What I am recommending is empathy itself.
This is his latest book and he made his name by all his earlier publications so of course there is value to reading his previous books.
I love the fact that he is still an evolutionist/Darwinist!
(also love the fact that he was born in the Dutch city of Hertogenbosch)
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Comment by David Rubenstein on November 22, 2009 at 11:13am
- So Adam, are you recommending this book "The Age of Empathy"? It has received some very good reviews on Amazon. The author has written a number of books on this subject. Is this book the best of them? Should I just read this one book, or is there value to reading his previous books, too?
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Comment by adam kondor on November 22, 2009 at 10:10am
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