Juhans 2008 Reading List: Design Business and Growing my Brain
Explore Juhan's 2008 reading list featuring standout books on design, business, and personal growth. Dive into insightful picks like Steven Pinker's *The Stuff of Thought* and Susan Jacoby's *The Age of American Unreason* to expand your mind.
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.
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The Forest for the Trees
by Betsy Lerner
Successful editor and agent Betsy Lerner offers advice to aspiring and accomplished authors based on six writer personality types and provides guidance through the process of getting published.
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The Stuff of Thought
by Steven Pinker
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. "Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty." --The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
