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‘Every Brain Needs Music’
Scott McLemee considers music and the neurons that love it.
Getting ‘Unwired’
Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.
‘LGBT Inclusion in American Life’
Scott McLemee reviews LGBT Inclusion in American Life by Susan Burgess.
Couch, Clinic, Scanner
Scott McLemee reviews David Hellerstein’s The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories From Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind.
An Encouraging Nature
Scott McLemee rounds up upcoming university press titles focused on science, medicine and the natural world.
A Studied Ignorance
Scott McLemee reviews Peter Burke’s Ignorance: A Global History.
Evergreen With Envy
Scott McLemee reviews Robert A. Schneider’s The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion.
Of Hobbitology
Scott McLemee interviews author Robert T. Tally Jr. on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion.