Book Reviews January 2009

The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse Vintage, 1943 ISBN: 009928362X The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is the story of a society where the various kinds of academic study - in particular mathematics, music and history - have been absorbed into the playing of a particularly complicated game. Continued..

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Sophie's Story Vince Smith Portrait, 2003 ISBN: 0749950218 In 1990 a baby chimp, Sophie, was abandoned by her mother at Chester Zoo. Vince Smith was a zookeeper at the zoo, and he and his wife offered to care for Sophie at his home. Sophie's Story: Raising a Chimp in the Family tells of how this turned out. Continued..

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The World is Flat Thomas Friedman Penguin, 2005 ISBN: 0141022728 With the adoption of new technology by countries such as China and India, the competitors for your job won't just be down the road - they may well live half way round the world. In The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century Thomas Friedman looks at how this change has taken place, and what you should do about it. Continued..

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Seeing Red Nicholas Humphrey Harvard University Press, 2006 ISBN: 0674021797 The nature of consciousness - what precisely is the 'redness' that we experience when looking at a red object - is one of the 'hard' problems of philosophy. In Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness Nicholas Humphrey offers some new insights into the question. Continued..

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Nature's Child John Lister-Kaye Abacus, 2004 ISBN: 0349117608 When John Lister-Kaye's daughter Hermione started to take an interest in the natural world, he decided to encourage this interest as much as possible. In Nature's Child he tells their story. Continued..

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