Perhaps this is more in the area of sensation and perception, but I
thought Diane Ackerman's _Natural History of the Senses_ was a great
read and had a lot of good information. And although I vehemently
disagree with parts of it, I'd also recommend _The Language Instinct_ by
Pinker; I used it as one of the texts for a psycholinguistics class I
taught a few years back.

(Aside:  Has anyone managed to work in _The Botany of Desire_ into a
course yet?  Motivation and emotion-related, perhaps?  Such a great
book, so concise and compelling, surely someone can use it somewhere...)

I'm interested to see what others recommend...it certainly is a tempting
idea to ditch the usual expensive, bland textbook!

-- Dr. Michelle Miller
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86001-5106
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 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mdm29/

NAU Department of Psychology:
 http://www.nau.edu/~psych/naupsy.html


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