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Some readers may be familiar with areas of cryptozoology, where the writer searches for animals whose existence has not been verified by science, but fewer readers are likely to be familiar with crytogeography, and this is the first such example that i am familiar with, a geography of. B ack when i was deployed in 2011, i read a fascinating passage in how the mind works by harvard psychologist steven pinker. But the book is just so damned strange that it has accumulated a. This book lists the world s 100 weirdest museums in order of quirkiness, encompassing such delights as the museum of witchcraft in cornwall, a museum in kentucky that houses 800 ventriloquists dolls, the museum of bad art in massachusetts, the paris sewer museum, the french fry museum in bruges, the museum of contraception and abortion in. How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Everyones talking about it author neil gaiman is even tweeting about it, posting a link and suggesting his followers. Jason furman, former economic advisor for president barack obama, professor at harvard kennedy school.
How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous is a 2020 evolutionary psychology book by joseph henrich. These are some of the strangest, most mysterious books ever written. Aug 20, 2008 for a long time i thought the weirdest book in the world was robert sheckleys mindswap, in which a retiring college professor does a holiday mind swap with a colleague on mars, only to find. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free and will get the latest books notifications. Here are the 59 weirdest places across the world that are a mustvisit. Weirdest world records in new guinness world records book.
I mean you think its weird and no one else will like it, but you dont care. Not weird as in you think its weird that you like it when your tastes are normally. He had already amassed the largest library in london, but it was the anonymous book of soyga to which he devoted his most attention. New fiction, nonfiction books and travel guides available from daunt. Whales that look like unicorns, lizards that squirt jets of blood from their eyes, naked rats that can sprint backwards. So whether theres something just a little different about the story, or the book is fullon bizarre, here are 100 wonderful weird books i have read and highly recommend. It was the 60s and life was getting weird and i was bored. The book presents a wealth of evidence that cultural. Dec 17, 20 first published in 1981, the codex seraphinianus by luigi serafini is a window into a strange world. Sep 22, 2020 the cultural evolution of psychology is the dark matter that flows behind the scenes throughout history. Sep 08, 2020 anthropologist joseph henrich has a new book out, the weirdest people in the world.
Publishers weekly a sweeping and magisterial book, likely to become as foundational to cultural psychology as the weird acronym henrich and his colleagues coined a decade ago. Sep 08, 2020 in many ways, the weirdest people in the world is a sequel to henrichs 2016 book the secret of our success, in which he argues that the distinctly human ability to create, transmit, and acquire evolved cultural systems is the major reason for our success as a species. It is, on the one hand, an acronym for western, educated, in a little parable that david foster wallace tells in his famous commencement speech, two young fish ask each other, what the hell is water. The narrator has a pleasant enough voice and enunciates clearly hence two.
Codex seraphinianus by italian artist luigi serafini is a window on a bizarre fantasy world complete with its own unique unreadable alphabet and numerous illustrations that borrow from the modern age but veer into the extremely unusual. Some features are not just unique but can also seem weird to our human minds. The weirdest world title holders in the guinness book of world records in 20. The 9 strangest books of all time for readers unafraid of taking. The bulk of the book consists of data from many disciplines other than history, including anthropology and crosscultural psychology, to which he and colleagues have made significant contributions. A while ago, we listed 10 ultra weird science fiction books that youve never read. Aug 17, 2020 i know it is weird, in fact, very bizarre. In the weirdest people in the world, joseph henrich draws on cuttingedge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more.
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