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What I want more than anything:
Bose Noise-Reduction Headphones, but ones that cover your entire ear. That is, when you're wearing them, they don't put pressure on your ear, but only on your head around the ear. Not sure if they even make them this way.
Accents : A Manual for Actors by Robert Blumenfeld
I need the CD in working condition, however. I think it's out of print.
Pteris Tremula plant. Isn't it beautiful?
(From here down lists are roughly in the order that I want them.)
Laurie Anderson: Works from 1969 to 1983, by Ben Lifson, Janet Kardon, John Rockwell
Publisher: Institure of Contempory Art, University of Pennsylvania.
ISBN: 0-88454-033-2, LCCN: 83-082296 (very rare, hard to find. Try
powells.com
I've seen it available on
half.com as well.
United States Laurie Anderson HARDCOVER (I already have the
soft.. Don't know if it is available in hardback.)
The Best American Science Writing 2004
The Best American Science Writing 2005
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006
The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005
The Case Against Homework by Bennett and Kalish
The Homework Myth by Kohn
Prisoner of Trebekistan by Harris
The Artful Brain by Ramachandran
Seen/Unseen: Art, Science, and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope by Kemp
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor by Paulos
How To Talk To Anyone by Lowndes
The Art of Dramatic Writing by Egri
In Search Of The Light: Adventures of a Parapsychologist by Blackmore
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning by Brachman and Levesque
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Dweck
Zen and the Brain by James Austin
The Elm and the Expert by Fodor
Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century by Solso
Readings on Color - Vol. 1: the philosophy of color by Bryrne and Hilbert
Readings on Color - Vol. 2: The Science of Color by Bryrne and Hilbert
Thank You For Arguing by Heinrichs
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Abrahamson
The Happiness Hypothesis By Haidt
About Alphabets by Hermann Zapf
On Beyond Zebra! by Dr Suess
Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker
The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed by Rachter
Fantastic Alphabets by Larcher
Inversions by Scott Kim
Type Sign Symbol by Frutiger and Frutiger
Letter Forms and Lettering by Biggs
No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life by Heather Menzies
Wizard of the Crow by Wa'thiong'o
The Artful Mind by Mark Turner
Trouble With Poetry & Other Poems by Billy Collins
How To Survive A Robot Uprising by Wilson
The "God" Part of the Brain by Alper
Religions Explained by Boyer
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion Series) by Barrett
Design Methods (Architecture) by Jones
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Minding the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
by Gould
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Lightman
Self-Made Man by Vincent Norah
Intuition by Goodman
The Trouble With Testosterone by Sapolsky
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Sapolsky
A Primate's Memoir by Sapolsky
The Compleat Academic edited by Darley, Zanna, Roediger
Doing a Literature Review by Hart
The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language and Constrained Connectionism
by Regier
40 Years, 20 Million Ideas: The Toyota Suggestion System by Yasuda
Notebooks of the Mind by John-Steiner
Workplace by Design by Becker and Steele
Nonverbal Communications: The Unspoken Dialogue by Burgoon
Eurekas and Euphorias by Gratzer
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Braintenberg
Dynamic Memory by Schank
The Family Virtues Guide by Popov and Popov
The Fantastic Art of Beksinski by Beksinski
Why We Believe What We Believe by Newberg and Waldman
Why God Won't Go Away by Newberg
Satisfaction: Sensation Seeking, Novelty, and the Science of Finding True Fulfillment by Berns
It's All Too Much by Walsh
Made to Stick by Heath and Heath
False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear by Marc, MD Siegel (paperback preferred)
The Culture of Fear by Glassner
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong by Glassner
The Scientist As Rebel by Dyson (paperback preferred)
Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion by Tremlin and Lawson
Are We Spiritual Machines? Gilder, Kurzweil, Richards (Eds.)
Why We Love by Fisher
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Axiomatic by Greg Egan
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (softcover preferred)
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans
Darwinia by Wilson
The Lightning Thief by Riordan
Guilty Pleasures by Hamilton
Visuo-Spatial Working Memory by Logie
The Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Dawkins
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think by Grafen and Ridley (Eds.)
The God Delusion by Dawkins
Spatial Cognition by Olson and Bialystok
Art and Visual Perception : A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The
New Version, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged (Paperback)
by Rudolph Arnheim
Aesthetics and psychobiology by D. E Berlyne
The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art, and Art Education
edited by Frank H. Farley and Ronald W. Neperud
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (paperback
or used versions preferred)
Religion Explained Boyer (paperback, used preferred)
The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull
The Forest People by Colin Turnbull
The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin by
Keith Stanovich
Sentics by Manfred Clynes
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull by Roy
Richard Grinker (used preferred--it's like 45 cents!!)
Primer of visual literacy by Donis A. Dondis
Storyboards: Motion in Art by Mark Simon
Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
by David W. Galenson
Imaginary Magnitude by Stanislaw Lem (paperback used preferred)
The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
by Robert L. Solso (softcover and/or used is fine)
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. (used
preferred) This book on writing comes highly recommended.
The Art of Making DAnces By Doris Humphrey (used
preferred). Recommended to be by a dance professor as being a good
intro to the semiotics of dance.
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by
William J. Higginson
When Religion Becomes Evil : Five Warning Signs by
Charles Kimball
Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning by Mary
Midgley
The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
The Art of Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace by
Jonathan Bresman
Creative Evolutionary Systems (With CD-ROM) (The Morgan Kaufmann
Series in Artificial Intelligence) by David W. Corne, Peter
J. Bentley
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft : Ritual Magic in Contemporary
England by T. M. Luhrmann . Book about why
people believe in witchcraft.
The Mathematician's Mind by Jacques Hadamard
The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in the Age of Plenty by
David Myers
How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
by Roger Corman
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy by Gerald Dworkin et al.
Culture and Subjective Well-Being by Ed Diener and Eunook M. Suh
Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize
Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
by Martin Seligman
The Progress Paradox : How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook
The "God" Part of the Brain
by Matthew Alper (paperback used preferred)
Animal Sense by Diane Ackerman
Ring by Koji Suzuki (paperback and/or used preferred)
Looking into Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Pictorial
Space by Heiko Hecht (Editor), Robert Schwartz (Editor),
Margaret Atherton (Editor) (used softcover preferred)
The Problem of the Soul by Owen Flanagan (paperback used
preferred)
Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't
by D. Jason Slone (paperback used preferred)
Life and Def by Russel Simmons and Nelson George (paperback used preferred)
Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes (paperback and/or used preferred)
The Child's Representation of a Pictorial World by Claire
Golomb. (Used copy preferred)
Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty
by Nancy Etcoff (paperback used preferred)
The Origins of Music by Nils L. Wallin (Editor), Bj?rn Merker (Editor), Steven Brown (Editor)
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
by Helen Fisher (paperback used preferred)
A Hip Hop Story by Heru Ptah, an Oswego alumnus. (paperback used preferred)
Good Faeries Bad Faeries by Brian Froud
The Structure of Appearance by Nelson Goodman
The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
Theater Games for Rehearsal : A Director's
Handbook by Viola Spolin
Improvisation for the Theater : A Handbook of Teaching and
Directing Techniques (Drama and Performance Studies), 3rd Edition
by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills (Editor)
Jesus was Way Cool by John S. Hall
Rehearsal Management for Directors by David Alberts
Audition by Michael Shurtleff, Bob Fosse
Fundamentals of Play Directing by Alexander Dean, Lawrence
Carra (Contributor) (very expensive-- please get it used!)
The StageWriter's handbook
The Mating Mind : How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
by Geoffrey Miller (paperback used preferred)
Creative Evolutionary Systems by Corne and Bentley (paperback and/or used preferred)
Islands In the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
by Martin Sanchez Jankowski
An Actor Prepares by Constantine Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Konstantin Stanislavsky
Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art by Samuel H. Butcher, J. Gassner (Designer)
A Sense of Direction by William Ball
Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club
Culture by Frank Owen (I'd actually prefer the softcover
version when it comes out.
Visions: How science will revolutionize the 21st century by Michio Kaku
Advice to a Young Scientist by Peter Medawar
A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire, Vol 1) by George R. R. Martin
The Creative Process by Turner
Eiland by Stephan van Dinther and Tobias Schalken
The Art of Memory by Francis A. Yates (for story of Simonides of
Ceros the poet)
The Coming by Joe Halderman (paperback version preferred)
Architectures for Intelligence by Kurt VanLehn
Robot by Hans Moravec
Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative
Perspective by Claire Golomb (used is fine)
Understanding Music with AI
Starfish by Peter Watts
The Evolution of Mind by Denise Dellarosa Cummins
Edward De Bono's Cort Thinking : Book 1 : Breadth by Edward De Bono
The Future of the Cognitive Revolution edited by
David Johnson and Christina Erneling
Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop
Culture
edited by William Eric Perkins
Mount Dragon by Preston, Douglas ISBN: 1561006866
Slaves of the Machine By Rawlins
Performance : Live Art Since 1960
by Roselee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson
Yes, we have no neutrons by A. K. Dewdney
Hal's Legacy edited by Stork
Insanely Twisted Rabbits By Michel Gagne
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Recommended by Alison.
Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson
The Science of the Mind edited by Solso and Massaro(Oxford U press)
The Adapted Mind edxited by Barkow, Cosmides and Tooby (Oxford
U press)
Beyond the Chinese Face by Michael Bond (Oxford U press)
The Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
Machinery of the Mind by George Johnson
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
At the Water's Edge by Carl Zimmer
Watch My Back by Geoff Thompson. (about martial arts)