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
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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


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