The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language By John H. McWhorter (Oxford, 208 pages, $19.95)…
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our PastsBy Charles Fernyhough(Harper, 320…
Writing The Principles of Mathematics in the spring of 1901, Bertrand Russell got stuck on a simple problem in the…
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at NightEdited by John Brockman(Harper Perennial, 500 pages, $15.99)…
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity By Pedro G. Ferreira (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…
Hard Road HomeBy Ye Fu(Ragged Banner Press, 176 pages, $17) Taking humanity at large, perhaps the greatest service any person…
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and ParentingBy Alfie Kohn(Da Capo, 280 pages, $25.99)…
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and PredictionEdited by John Brockman(Harper Perennial, 432 pages, $10.90) Before mass media came…
Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political DifferencesBy John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John A. Alford (Routledge,…