Editorial Review

One has good reason to be suspicious of a book that calls itself a "metaphorical memoir." If a metaphor substitutes one thing for another to which it's not ordinarily related, and a memoir relates the personal experiences of the author, then a metaphorical memoir would be... well, lying, if we're going to get technical about it. Or it could be Read more

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Brilliant prose from a trickster of a narrator
Slater insists that her book be characterized as a non-fiction memoir, despite that fact that she freely admits that her account of her epilepsy is factual, symbolic, real, and fantastical all at once.Slater herself isn't always sure which of her memories are true and which are vivid but invented.If the reader can let themselves free in this alternate reality, Slater's memoir makes for fascinating, touching, and chilling reading.She truly brings the reader inside her own confusions about how much of her disease is real and how much fabricated.The short length of the book allows Slater's literary trickery to work well.
Well done, but not quite enough feeling
Lauren Slater's tribute to postmodernism in her "metaphorical memoir" is an interesting exploration of the role of fact in what is true. Where we may tend to regard the objective facts of a situation to be the truth of it, Ms. Slater takes a much more subjective view. She asserts her point, explicitly and in a masterful way woven seemlessly throughout the text, that there may be a more truthful way to relate a situation, a character, an anecdote, than to simply relate the facts.
Another triumph for Slater.
Lauren Slater, Lying (Random House, 2000)
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Epileptics    6. Health    7. Slater, Lauren    8. Social Scientists & Psychologists    9. Specific Groups - Special Needs    10. Truthfulness and falsehood    11. United States    12. Women    13. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs   

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Simplifying Lacan
Like many, I have struggled with Lacan's "own" words in English translation, sensing ideas of importance that are lost because a) Lacan intentionally obfuscated his ideas to make the very points he wrote about, b) French linguistic play doesn't translate into English, & c) translators vary in quality, in part depending on their audience (e.g., cultural studies, which often misconstrues Lacan as a postmodernist).This book is a wonderful introduction, although I suspect it is of greatest value to someone like myself who has already attempted to fathom Schema L with frustration. Poorly written
I must disagree with the first reviewer of this book.I found this "Introducing..." installment to be unclear and unhelpful, unlike most in the series.The author hurls terminology at you with little, and sometimes no, explanation.Each page seems to introduce a new concept without building on the previous ones discussed.Perhaps this is a good overview or refresher for those already familiar with Lacan's work, but for the beginner, it is useless.

extremely well written introduction
When you need an introduction to Lacan, buy this and forget the rest. This book has at least three merits. First, the author is an orthodox lacanian psychoanalyst. This advantage could not be overstated. So many books titledso-called "Introduction to Lacan" are written by non-professional(e.g. professors of French, Cultural Studies or literary critic) with somedubious leanings and irredeemable confusions. Those books are ratherpersonal accounts than good introductions for beginner and of no use tounderstand one of the most difficult writers of all time. Darian Leader'sbook is different. This book was written by lacanian professional ratherthan self-appointed "interpreter" of Lacan and supervised byJacques-Alain Miller, the successor of Lacan. This fact makes the book themost faithful and reliable introduction to Lacan. Second, this bookexplains the clinical significance and origin of great Lacanian terms, e.g.repetition, sinthome, lalangue, so on. The result is that the approachmakes it easy to understand. This is why other books by non-psychiatristcould be by no means competitors. Third, this book is written byexceptionally clear language and aided by intelligent graphics. Clearity isnot a Lacanian virtue, but this book makes a immensely satisfyingexception. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Biography And Autobiography    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Psychoanalysis    5. Psychology    6. Social Scientists & Psychologists    7. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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The Lone Dissenter
While this book is a refresher from the cliches about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly Multiple Personality Disorder that "Sybil" and "The Three Faces of Eve" created, I was still sorely disappointed in this book.One thing that bothers me that there are people who view DID as an exotic condition and who go to great lengths to try to convince others they are hosts to other personalities.Instead of being exotic, it is a devastating condition that has cost people their jobs, families and in some cases their lives.Cases have been reported where one personality was out to kill another and as a result, the "host" or "core" personality was the casualty.
Profoundly moving
Most of us think of Multiple Personality Disorder in terms of 'Sybil,' or 'The Three Faces of Eve,'or that California serial killer who claimed the rest of him was innocent. To us, it's an exotic craziness that either doesn't exist or is sensationally unpredictable and dangerous. Insightful, surprisingly hard to put down
The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living With Multiple Personality Disorder, by Jane Phillips (pseudonym) is the first-person narrative of a woman who suffers multiple personality disorder -- more precisely dissociative identity disorder (DID) -- most of her life.Since the author does not have the typical chronological concept of time until, for the most part, the end of the narrative, the book is composed of snippets of recollections and experiences with each chapter encompassing a theme.Oddly, however, the book does nonetheless have a peculiar linear fabric to the recollections.Apparently, to some extent, the author also recognizes this toward the end of the book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Mental health    4. Multiple personality    5. Patients    6. Personality Disorders    7. Phillips, Jane    8. Psychology    9. Social Scientists & Psychologists    10. United States    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    12. Psychotherapy   

Editorial Review

Edgar Cayce was one of the most humble and influential people of hisday, a man whose outstanding psychic abilities appeared to heal hundreds ofpatients. The F.B.I. and even master magician Henry Houdini couldn't debunk orexplain Cayce's amazing gifts. Biographer Sidney D. Kirkpatrick has no interestin probing the question of whether Cayce had legitimate psychic powers. Ratherhe presents an evenhanded story about the life of this American prophet, using amyriad of sources, including transcripts of his trances as well as Cayce'spersonal letters and papers. (Kirkpatrick is the only author to be grantedunrestricted access.)Read more

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Much more detailed biography than There Is A River
This is a superb updated biography.The first reviewer in this list says it all.I would like to add that anyone interested in Edgar Cayce's early life in Hopkinsville, Kentucky prior to moving to Virginia Beach would really enjoy the the Edgar Cayce Hometown Seminar.It is coordinated by Donna Stone at the Pennyroyal Museum at 9th & Main Streets in Hopkinsville and is held there annually on the weekend of March 18th, Edgar Cayce's birthday. I just returned from this year's seminar.A couple of Edgar Cayce's counsins (D.D. Cayceand William T. Turner, Christian County Historic Society) conduct the historic sightseeing tour, which stops at all the places mentioned in Kirkpatrick's book:the one-room schoolhouse, which has been lovingly restored to the way it looked when he was a student; the church he attended, the pond where Edgar's grandfather drowned while riding with Edgar on a horse, Ketchum's office where Edgar gave many readings, and all the houses in which he lived while in Kentucky (the house where he slept on his book; the house where he gave a reading on himself when he couldn't speak, etc.) and finally the cemetery where Edgar Cayce is buried.There is also a play of his early life given by verytalented local actors at the Alhambra Theater, where Cayce used to court his future wife.This was a very exciting experience.The closest airport is Nashville, Tennessee and is about an hour's drive from Hopkinsville.The local Best Western motel has arranged a discounted rate for seminar attendees.

A Wonderful Bio and Great Work Exploring the Human Mind
Knowing the mental limits of sentient beings is an undertaking for which man has just begun to scratch the surface.With advancements in fields such as mental healing, ESP, and certain segments of homeopathic medicine, we are beginning to see that the human mind is capable of much more than the average person gives themselves credit for.Perhaps the most notable and prolific explorer of the human mind and its capabilities was a poor tobacco farmer named Edgar Cayce.In this excellent biography of Cayce, the author explores Cayce's life from early on until his death in 1945.With in the pages, Kirkpatrick describes many of the amazing incidents attributed to Cayce.For example, healing innumerable patients deemed terminal by doctors of the time, to discovering oil, solving crimes, and perhaps advising two American presidents on political policy.Refreshingly, Kirkpatrick doesn't proselytize the "Word" of Cayce but rather describes the man, and leaves the reader to discover where the line between truth and imagination is drawn.However, with the evidence that Kirkpatrick provides, it is difficult to renounce Cayce as a major shaper of psychology, philosophy and other avenues of the mind.

I Do Not Bear A Message: I Am The Message
Sidney R. Kirkpatrick's Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet methodically considers the facts in the life of a man whose story may be the best documented Fortean case study in modern history.Kirkpatrick writes well, and has clearly immersed himself in his subject. Read more

Subjects:  1. 1877-1945    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Cayce, Edgar,    7. New Age    8. New Age Movement    9. Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy)    10. Parapsychology - General    11. Psychics    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. United States    14. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Marxism = slavery
I will save you from having to buy this book. In a nutshell, here's socialism, Communism, Marxism, and the rest:
It Ain't Doonesbury
Good to see this worthy little work back on the shelves. Sure, it's easy to ridicule a popularizied version of any weighty academic subject, especially one making use of cartoon humor. But the true measure should be how well the central ideas are rendered. In that key respect, Rius's primer serves very well as an introduction to the sociology of Marxism, less well to the economics (the determinist, breakdown element is severely underplayed), while the philosophical aspects are dealt with manfully, but are likely too complex for even the best efforts. The work's special virtue lies in dealing with those aspects of Marx's thought most appealing to a general readership: exploitation, surplus value, property relations, class struggle... in short, those aspects that impinge most directly on daily life. Prospective readers can gain real insight into thepower of Marx's thought through these more prosaic topics.
a good read
Interesting book. If you want to read about Marx in a digestible form, definitely read this book. It's really funny too. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism    5. Social Scientists & Psychologists    6. Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists   

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This book took me out on the water with the author!
I couldn't put this book down!I was there with every storm, every breathless moment of this incredible journey!I was exhausted when I finished this page-turner strictly from the adventure standpoint, but the emotional journey which parallels the physical is equally compelling and I found the author's honesty to be refreshing and comforting.This is a beautiful book to read and re-read when your own life's journey makes you wonder if you're on the right path and it makes a wonderful gift as well!

big thoughts on a big lake
Linnea's book is one of only a handful of kayaking books really worth dipping into. Her prose and purpose are conveyed perfectly to the reader. Both kayakers and students of water will enjoy this work. Only Chris Duff's book comes close to matching it for creating lingering memories. Both works figure strongly in my book which reviews outdoor water recreation - Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water. Linnea writes with passion and enjoys getting wet and immersing herself in Lake Superior's coasts. As Thoreau wrote " That part of you that is wettest is fullest of life" (quoted from Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement With Water; Green Frigate Books, 2003).

Spirtual: Yes; Kayaking: Maybe
I picked up this book expecting it to be a book about not only a woman finding herself and understanding the place where she was in her life better but also a book about kayaking around Lake Superior (a trip I'm about to embark on next spring).I was not disappointed by the Spiritual nature of the book (even if it was a bit too New Agey for me) but I was disappointed by the lack of good kayaking stories (other than the obligatory toughness of the trip type stories).I was also surprised by how "unexpectedly harsh" the author found Lake Superior and the lack of real knowledge of the lake she possessed (especially since she lived on the shores of the lake in Duluth, MN).Anyone preparing to make this trip should have been better prepared for the fickleness of Lake Superior and anyone who actually lives on the lake should have known this wasn't going to be your summer camp paddling trip.Like many other reviewers, I did find her whinning a bit much at times.BUT overall I found this book enjoyable, touching at many points and made me anxious to start my trip at Sault Ste. Marie in June. (Picky-Nicky note here: This town is called "The Soo" by us native Michiganders and not "The Sioux" as the author spells it in the book..it is a local shortening of Sault Ste. Marie pronounced "Soo Saint Marie", not named after the Indian tribe) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canoeists    5. Canoes and canoeing    6. Essays & Travelogues    7. Religion    8. Sea kayaking    9. Social Scientists & Psychologists    10. Spirituality - General    11. Superior, Lake    12. United States    13. Biography & Autobiography / Women   

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More than just a memoir of a prize-winner - and important to any aspiring scientist
In 1996 author Peter Doherty found himself receiving the Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine from the king of Sweden - an unlikely event for a boy who grew up in an Australian working neighborhood where his schoolmates ended up working in the local slaughterhouse. His journey from Australia, his evolving interest in immunology, and his eventual award-winning work are revealed in a memoir which surveys the life of a research scientist, discussing how scientific projects are selected, funded and organized. This approach makes this more than just a memoir of a prize-winner - and important to any aspiring scientist.
good reading
It is not a How-To book to get the Super Prize, it is a journey of a Nobel Prize winner from his childhood to manage to get a nobel prize.
A Life in Science, its Rewards, Failings, and the Future
This book is part memoir, part autobiography, part philosophy, and part several other things, and the result is a delightful read. The title needs to be taken just a bit in jest as no body can tell you how to win the big one. In science that's the Nobel, in sports its the Superbowl or World Series, in acting a Tony or Emmy.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. General    6. History    7. Immunologists    8. Nobel Prizes    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Research    11. Scientists - General    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. T-cells    14. United States    15. General Theory of Computing    16. Science / Biology   

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a deep drink from an unusual well.
A biography of Heinz Kohut who was at the center of the 20th century American psychoanalytic movement. After the Nazis took over Vienna he fled to Chicago, where he spent the rest of his life & is now remembered as the founder of "self psychology."Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Kohut, Heinz    6. Medical - General    7. Movements - Psychoanalysis    8. Psychoanalysts    9. Social Scientists & Psychologists    10. United States    11. Biography: general    12. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

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Freud Was An Innovator Before His Time...
May 6 was the 150th birth anniversary of Sigmung Freud; he died in London in 1939.His theories have been changed along the way by other psychologists, but they remain the basis for therapy.He believed that past conflicts cause current emotional problems, the trauma of being born was actually at the root of neurotic anxiety, and that childhood experiences are the crucible of character.He delved into the science of recollection and reflection.Some of his beliefs have been tossed aside as so much feminist bunk, but had he still been alive, he would have agreed that history will never end because it is made by human beings.
Excellent Work
Disagree with two of the reviewers below:Gay is not unbearly biased in favor of Freud, book is not too much for casual dabblers in the subject.
Very complete biography
This biography on Sigmund Freud proves to be a total integration of all aspects of Freud's life. Everything from his psycho-analysis works to his family life, Jewish background to the political climate that surrounded his life were all integrated in this book in one massive volume. The book proves to be well written and relatively objective in outlook as the author maintain an even kneel toward his subject. I found the book to be quite informative and full of interesting insights on Freud's motives and actions.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1856-1939    2. Austria    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Freud, Sigmund,    7. Historical - General    8. History    9. Psychoanalysis    10. Psychoanalysts    11. Social Scientists & Psychologists    12. Non-Classifiable   

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Read this one
There are two recent books that touch on this subject. Ms. Pringle's and Christpher Hale's "Himmler's Crusade". Hale's book is about the expedition to Tibet, which also occupies a large part of this book. Even so, go with this one. Ms. Pringle is an excellent researcher and writes very well. She avoids veering off and making mistakes about military affairs, a major weakness in Hale's book. In addition, this book goes beyond the Tibet expedition (a fascinating subject) and takes up additional matters regarding the group set up by the SS to examine racial-biological-political issues. If you have an interest in Himmler or the SS, you won't be sorry you read this book.

Real-Life Nazis out of Indiana Jones Movies
Heather Pringle has done the world a service by producing awell-written account of the "science" produced by scholars working for the SS.The book is fascinating.Like all good history, it contains lessons for the modern world: 1. It is dangerous to mix politics and science, and 2. Even "smart" people can convince themselves of almost anything, especially if it will win them credit with powerful people.Unfortunately, as one looks around the world, the same willingness to ignore facts for the sake of ideology is still rampant.I wish more people would read Ms. Pringle's book.

The master plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
To say that the plan was part of the purpose of the Nazi extermination is wrong.This effort was a scholarly one, designed to provide historical proof that would more importantly, correct the current false teaching of history and give a true account of history going back to the proper starting point, much earlier than the 3-4,000 BC given today to 55,000 BC and add the proper issues to history that would answer all that is misundertood and unknown of Earth's true history.Some do not want this to happen.
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Biography    4. Eugenics    5. Europe - Germany    6. Germany    7. History    8. History: World    9. Holocaust    10. Jewish Holocaust    11. Military - World War II    12. National socialism and intellectuals    13. Nazis    14. Social Scientists & Psychologists    15. World War II - Europe    16. Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists   

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Archetypal splitting
This is an amazing collection of letters which depict the relationship of two of the greatest psychologists of all time.Naturally, there are people who interpret this relationship in different ways, especially as a very specific situation, peculiar to the development of psychology or otherwise.I think otherwise.Life is rarely linear--it's usually Normally Distributed.Things tend to go in cycles, not straight lines.The relationship between Freud the mentor & Jung the mentee is just not that unusual.In fact, it parallels that of every child (especially males stereotypically seeking independence).There comes a time to leave the nest & for the mentee to strike out on his own--just as there is a time for a new paradigm (per Thomas Kuhn's classic, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions").This is precisely what occurred between Freud & Jung.It's almost archetypal.There's even something of a parallel between Jung & Father Victor White in Jung's "Letters."This book has some interesting quotes from each of the two psychologists:
A fight of Titans for primacy in the field of Psychanalisys.
This is a sad book to read. In fact, one would not expect that such a type of bad development would occur between the two most important figures of psychoanalisys. It is as if Marx and Engels had broken their friendship for life and began to fight for fame and glory in front of everybody. The spoil was huge: nothing more than the primacy for fame and glory in the first steps of psychanalisys. Read more

Subjects:  1. (Carl Gustav),    2. 1856-1939    3. 1875-1961    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Correspondence    6. Europe    7. Freud, Sigmund,    8. Jung, C. G    9. Jung, C. G.    10. Letters    11. Movements - Psychoanalysis    12. Psychoanalysts    13. Psychology    14. Social Scientists & Psychologists    15. Biography & Autobiography    16. European History    17. Freud, Sigmund    18. History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science    19. Mind, Body, Spirit    20. Psychiatry    21. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    22. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

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An excellent book!!!
It helps me to understand and have compassion for people with disability and illness. Going into the health profession field, this a great book for anyone to understand family members, friends, or anyone who have disability.An excellent book and I would recommend it for anyone, not just students in anthropology.

Hearing the Body
Bob became paraplegiac at a late age, after having enjoyed a long, brilliant career as a professor at Columbia and an anthropologist who, with his anthropologist wife Yolanda, lived among Amazonian Indians and Saharan camel nomads. He was too clever to be overwhelmed with self-pity. This book was written from the perspective that he loved most: what you'd think is true is probably just the opposite. We expect paralyzed people to get better, like other "sick" patients, but the problem is, they don't: they're damaged selves. Hey--just like everybody else. We all have to come to terms with life's damages and our isolation and loneliness as we attempt to cope with it. Who would ever have thought it possible--we can all learn something compelling about our normal selves, viewing life from the wheelchair! Ironically (and this is the kind of twist that styles Murphy's ideas) the disabled are a mirror for the rest of us: "The paralytic is, quite literally, a prisoner of the flesh, but most humans are convicts of sorts. We live within walls of our own making, staring out at life through bars thrown up by culture and annealed by our fears. . . .[that] induces a mental paralysis, a stilling of thought." Murphy has never sold his soul to an illusion: he speaks candidly as a participant observer of his own encounter with symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and transformation. Always the fox, he transcends the smoke screen that our cultural prejudices force upon us, and hears his own body and its message with astounding clarity and patience. This is a book that students read eagerly, in both anthropology and sociology classes, because its message is provocative, and its ethnography is true. It teaches us all to listen to the sound of our own struggles with personal identity and mortality, and to smile with the knowledge that we are not alone.

Disibility means reliance on others
Ten years ago since the American Disabilities Act went into effect, the disabled still feel that they are isolated from the real world.Former professor of anthropology at Columbia University Robert F. Murphy examinesfrom his personal perspective the life of a disabled person in a worldwhere he was independent and zealous of life. The reader will discover whatit is like for a disabled person to battle besides the inability to carryout everyday function we take for granted.The Body Silent is unlike otherbooks written by the disable.The Body Silent is an excellent book full ofprose and not journal entries of how fortunate the non-disabled really are.This book (recommended to me by anthropologist Dr. James Trostle) willchange your perspective and outlook on how it is like to grow up again andlearning how to walk, one step at a time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Cancer (Psychosocial Aspects)    3. General    4. Handicapped    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Services For The Physically Challenged    8. Social Scientists & Psychologists    9. Specific Groups - Special Needs    10. Disability: social aspects    11. Family & Health   

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Darwin forever under a cloud....
After reading a review in NY review of books of Shermer's book I snapped out of my previous opinion and decided to revise my previous review here. Distracted by the issues raised in A. Brackman's book, A Delicate Arrangement, 'rebutted' by Shermer, I wavered wrongly in my original view at what appears now as a clever whitewash of Darwin. In the shadow no longer
Alfred Russel Wallace seems to rate hardly more than a footnote in the history of the theory of evolution.Like most who have studied this subject, I knew of Wallace's mutual discovery of the theory and evidence in support of it. I knew too of Darwin's generous introduction of the man as a co-discoverer, and even of the theory that that introduction might have been more premeditated and less generous that it appears.In some of my reading I had even learned of Wallace's "defection" to spiritualism.However, where Darwin's life is everywhere paraphrased and his thoughts on the subject of evolution almost subject to canonization, Wallace's life and thoughts seemed just to have "fallen out" of the picture.Michael Shermer's book, In Darwin's Shadow, The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace, provides a more detailed look at Wallace the man and scientist.It also looks at the subject of how history and biography reflects the psychology of their time-in some ways, he does so unintentionally. Interesting biography
A nice story of the scientist who came to a similar conclusion about natural history as his elder and more famous colleague, Darwin.I enjoyed reading about Wallace's background (quite different than Darwin's), his world travels, and the ways in which his theories differed from Darwin's.The author uses multivariate analysis on personality traits to attempt to explain some of these differences; I'm not fully convinced of the validity of that (for every statistical rule there are exceptions, and as Mark Twain colorfully observed, "there are lies ..."), but it's an interesting possibility. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1823-1913    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. England    7. Natural Selection    8. Naturalists    9. Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists    10. Scientists    11. Scientists - General    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. Wallace, Alfred Russel,    14. Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology    15. Biography: general    16. Evolution    17. History of science    18. Life Sciences | History & Philosophy of Biology    19. United Kingdom, Great Britain    20. c 1800 to c 1900   

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Outsider
It does not follow that a good student becomes a good teacher and/or a good researcher.The author's thesis was based upon ancient, defunct communities.Seeking to do field work, he casts about for an appropriate subject. Friends and fellow academics tend to remember nothing but the good times.Ethnographic adventures are productive of a license to be a bore.Anthropology has the reek of sanctity and divine irrelevance.