my mind on books

Here are some of the books coming up in 2012 (to be added to the “Calendar of upcoming releases”):

2012

Jan

1/2/12 – The Primate Mind: Built to Connect with Other Minds ed by Frans de Waal and Pier Francesco Ferrari (Harvard University Press), (amazon.co.uk – 30 Dec 2011)

1/27/12 – Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals by Paul M. Churchland (MIT Press), (amazon.co.uk – 27 Jan)

Feb

2/27/12 – Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel (W.W. Norton), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 15 Apr)

2/28/12 – The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere (Columbia University Press), (amazon.co,.uk – 1 Feb)

Mar

3/1/12 – The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live–and How You Can Change Them by Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley (Hudson Street Press), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 1 Mar)

3/20/12 Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk – 20 Mar)

Apr

4/2/12 – The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven (W.W. Norton), (amazon.co.uk – 29 May)

4/3/12 – Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (Basic Books)

4/10/12 – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk)

July
7/1/12 – The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity by Bruce Hood (Oxford University Press, USA), (amazon.co.uk – 19 Apr)