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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel (view source)
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With its unfailing enthusiasm expressing palpable joy of doing science combined with a cultured wisdom of somebody who achieved a pinnacle in his profession and happiness in personal life, Eric Kandel's book provides an insight into the mind of the scientist, and a very good introduction to the science he's been practising while including a background picture stretching from 30's Vienna to modern US academia. Highly recommended.
John Brockman edited [[What is Your Dangerous Idea?]] is an extremely stimulating collection of essays bridging the science and art divide in the creating of what's been known as The Third Culture. Richard Dawkins' [[A Devil's Chaplain]] gives another intimate insight into an outstanding scientist's mind while presenting some content of his science. And Steven Pinker's [[The Language Instinct]] shows how study of language has contributed to the developments of cognitive science. Finally, though not reviewed by TheBookBag, [[''Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!]] '' is the most entertaining if occasionally vaguely disturbing autobiography of a scientist I have ever encountered.
Our thanks to the publishers for sending this book to The Bookbag.
You might also appreciate [[The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz]].
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