psychology

Book Reviews

• John Bowlby: The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds; A Secure Base
• Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis: A Cooperative Species
  Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
• J. Gavin Bremner, Theodore D. Wachs: The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development
  - basic research in cognitive psychology
• Po Bronson, Ashley MerryMan: Nurture Shock
  Why Everything We Think About Raising Our Children is Wrong
• Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth: How Monkeys See the World**
  Inside the Mind of Another Species
• Alison Clarke-Stewart, Virginia D. Allhusen: What We Know About Childcare
  - a survey of research into childcare in the United States
• Perry R. Cook: Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound
  An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
• Frans B. M. de Waal, Peter L. Tyack: Animal Social Complexity*
  Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies
• Daniel C. Dennett: Consciousness Explained*
  - assorted bogeymen are summarily dispatched
• Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
• Paul L. Harris: Trusting What You're Told
  How Children Learn from Others
• Marc D. Hauser: The Evolution of Communication*
  - neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
• Michael J. A. Howe: Genius Explained
  - environment, personality, and hard work
• Andreas Kapardis: Psychology and Law
  - witnesses, juries, sentencing, detecting deception, policing, ...
• Richard Lewontin, et al.: Not In Our Genes
  Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
• Larry May, et al.: Mind and Morals
  Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
• David Shenk: The Genius in All of Us
  Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong
• Dorothy Tennov: Love and Limerence
  The Experience of Being in Love
• Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid
  The Story and Science of the Reading Brain