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Anthropologist in the making with a fondness for photojournalism, tech & writing. Also a mime who fosters kittens & loves to volunteer.
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Scritti corsari
Saga, Volume 2
Lettere lutarane
Star Wars: Legacy, Vol. 7: Storms
Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Watchmen
Rethinking Psychiatry
The Difference Engine (Spectra special editions)
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
I gave it 3 stars on Amazon, but here I'm giving it only 2 because of the difference of meaning I give to the stars on GR. The fact is, I did not like it much. It was ok, for anyone who doesn't already know about 90% of what Pink says in this book (either by academic process or common-sense).For me, it was a bit boring to read. Just like when I was bored in English class because all my classmates were a bit slow on learning the proverbial ABC's and I was already conjugating them and juggling other tasks. That's how I felt while reading this. But I gotta hand it to Pink: he did his research (I even recognized some of his references from my Anthro classes); knows how to tell a story and present facts in an easy-reading way, and when to insert a punch line. I practice for quite some time some of the exercises he gives at the end of each section, but some of those were new to me and I may try them.
