I ♥ kusoma

Alan Weisman
2007-2008
St. Martin’s Press

– A fascinating eco-thriller … Gripping

The simple but irresistible premise of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us - what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared - lit up imaginations even as it ignited controversy around the world.

Weisman's "thought experiment" examines what would happen in both the immediate and distant future to the land, the animals, the oceans, our cities, our art, and all manner of things we take for granted if we were no longer here. Would the seas again teem with fish? Would our concrete jungles crumble...

Daniel J. Levitin, 2006, 320 pages

Why human beings make and enjoy muziki is, in Levitin’s telling, a delicious story. In this unprecedented meeting of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between muziki – its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it – and the human brain.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that muziki is nothing zaidi than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that muziki is fundamental to our species, perhaps even zaidi so than language. ‘This Is Your Brain On Music’ is an ear-opening,...

Daniel Goleman, 2006, 334 pages

Goleman in his groundbreaking book reveals that neural linkages between humans influence the brain and the body. These invisible bridges give us the ability to change people's moods, emotions, and health - as these people can do to us. Relationships not only shape emotional states and general psychological experience, but also the very physiological matter that makes our body. Our interactions with people influences our immune system, circulation, hormones, and breathing for example.

Social Intelligence expands from the one-person psychology within an individual...

Anne Robillard (the new Tolkien)
2002-2009
Original title: Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude

The Knights of zumaridi, zamaradi is a book series in the heroic-fantasy style, translated from French, written kwa the Québécoise Anne Robillard. The series numbers twelve books. Since their release, the vitabu have become maarufu inside Quebec kwa the Éditions De Mortagne[1], selling up to one million copies. The first book has since been translated in English [2] and Polish. The book has also been edited in France, kwa the Éditions Michel Lafon. The first two vitabu have sold 15000 copies there since June 2007.[3]

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