For those who might be interested in the brain, how about: David Bainbridge (2008). Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain, Harvard University Press.
Swanson, K. (1999). I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury, Rising Star Press. DiClaudio, D. (2005). The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have, Bloomsbury. (no. It is just interesting.) :) Sacks, O. (2007). Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Knopf. Wolf, M. (2007). Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper. Lehrer, J. (2007). Proust was a neuroscientist, Houghton Mifflin. Taylor, J. (2006). My stroke of insight, Lulu.com. Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker Sutherland, A. (2008). What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers. Excerpt from the NPR website: "In 2006, the most e-mailed story in The New York Times was an op-ed about one woman's attempt to get her husband to pick up his dirty laundry using the same techniques employed by animal trainers." Hear the Talk of the Nation interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87892614&ft=1&f=1032 Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Ariely is a behavioral economist, Excerpt from the NPR website: "'Our willingness to pay, it turns out, is not just a function of the utility of the pleasure that we expect to get from [the item], it's also influenced by all kinds of irrelevant factors that change our psychology but not our economic reasoning,' Ariely says." Hear the All Things Considered interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19231906&ft=1&f=1032 -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/ -- APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology http://teachpsych.org/ Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology Associate Director Project Syllabus http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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