my mind on books

Here are some of the anticipated new releases for the rest of August:

8/4 – What Language Is: And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be by John McWhorter (Gotham), (amazon.co.uk – 4 Aug)

8/4 – A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi (Penguin), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 4 Aug)

8/5 – The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized by Owen Flanagan (MIT Press), (amazon.co.uk – 21 Oct)

8/9 – On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) by Jonnie Hughes (Free Press), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 9 Aug.)

8/9 – The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest by Yochai Benkler (Crown Business), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 9 Aug)

8/10 – Jokes and the Linguistic Mind by Debra Aarons (Routledge), (amazon.co.uk – 21 Sep)

8/12 – Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World by Gerald Vision (MIT Press), (amazon.co.uk – 30 Sep)

8/15 – Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind by Jesse Prinz (W.W Norton), (amazon.co.uk – 26 Jan 2012)

8/15 – The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis by David Henderson and Terence Horgan (Oxford University Press, USA), (amazon.co.uk)

8/15 – Evolution: The Human Story by Alice Roberts (DK Publishing), (amazon.co.uk – 1 Sep)

8/16 – The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness, ed. by John Brockman (Harper Perennial) – (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 16 Aug)

8/16 – Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology ed. by John Brockman (Harper Perennial), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk)

8/18 – Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson (Viking), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 18 Aug)

8/23 – Who Am I?: And If So, How Many? by Richard David Precht, tr. by Shelley Frisch (Spiegel & Grau), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk)

8/28 – States of Consciousness: Experimental Insights into Meditation, Waking, Sleep and Dreams (The Frontiers Collection), ed. by Dean Cvetkovic, Irena Cosic (Springer), (amazon.co.uk – 31 July)

8/30 – The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker (Bloomsbury Press), (amazon.co.uk – 30 Aug)

8/31 – So Much, So Fast, So Little Time: Coming to Terms with Rapid Change and Its Consequences by Michael St Clair (Praeger), (amazon.co.uk – 31 Aug)

8/31 – Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L. Locke (Cambridge University Press), (amazon.co.uk – 31 Aug)

For September and beyond, scroll through the full calendar here.