Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2013 - February 2013
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
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The science of evil: on empathy and the origins of cruelty By Baron-Cohen, Simon Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 100 Call Number: 152.41 BAR A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil. |
NEW RELEASE By Kandel, Eric R. Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 100 Call Number: 154.2 KAN A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art. |
NEW RELEASE By Horstman, Judith Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 100 Call Number: 155.3 HOR "A fascinating look at how the brain controls our relationships and romances. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and most men and women readers today have learned that the brain is Grand Central Station for our most erotic associations, memories, and secret desires. The latest research shows that the popular myth is true: Sexual orientation and identity is hard-wired, the result of our neurological predisposition, not a choice or result of socialization. We instinctively crave connection and relationship as an essential part of our well-being, self-esteem, and pleasure. The process of achieving and recovering from orgasm ignites the same pleasure centers in the brain as exercise, music, religion, food, alcohol, and drugs. Sexual desire can be triggered by a thought, a smell, a touch, or the sight of an object of desire. These sensorium are located at different parts of the brain, and can be activated indefinitely into our senior years. Filled with little known and fascinating information about the brain. The third Scientific American book in the series about the brain. The core science and latest research is drawn from the prestigious Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines"-- |
Scapegoat: a history of blaming other people By Campbell, Charlie Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 100 Call Number: 158.2 CAM Traces the history of blaming others, exposes the anger and irrationality of it, and reveals man's capacity to cast blame. |
By James, William Publishing Date: c1987 Classification: 100 Call Number: 191 JAM |
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