Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
10 best books like Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind (Dorothy L. Cheney): The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Hallucinations, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, The Optimist's Daughter, Diaspora
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0394574753 |
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on...
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0307957241 |
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
| Author | Joseph E. LeDoux |
| ISBN | 0684836599 |
"You're reading that for *fun*?" "Yup."
Okay so it wasn't really "fun", reading this book, and god knows it took me nearly the entire summer to finish it, but here are some crazy tidbits about our emotional brain:
You know how sometimes you wished you could will yourself to feel a certain...
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
| Author | Neil Shubin |
| ISBN | 0375424474 |
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
| Author | Stephen Brusatte |
| ISBN | 0062490451 |
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
| Author | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| ISBN | 0374227764 |
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 3453161815 |
By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.
The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three: fleshers — true Homo sapiens;...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926051 |
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...
| Author | Mark P. Witton |
| ISBN | 0691150613 |
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest...
