Tag: books
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Language. Civilization. Silence. Re-death.
Sixty years ago, renowned Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner published one of the most important books ever written about language. Verbal Behavior offered a comprehensive account of our unique capacity for symbolic communication, arguing forcefully over nearly 500 pages that it was learned rather than innate. The culmination of years of work, it was certainly…
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Death and life in books…
Ngrams analysis of words used in books throughout the ages provide interesting insights of the way people think in various ages. In the past the use rates of the words ‘life’ and ‘death’ were similar and their patterns followed each other in fluctuations over the year. However lately and especially after the French Revolution and…
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The secret of the Dark Flower
The book entitled “The secret of the Golden Flower” is an oriental alchemistic work which gained much reputation after Carl Jung commented on it and interpreted its content through his deep knowledge of the occult, alchemy and psychology. The book is essentially a guide to meditation and it is written in very simple language –…
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Good books. Bad books. Hidden truth...
Good books are sold to fewer people than the best selling books-for-the-masses and are, thus, more easily sold out. [e.g. "Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method" from Henry Bauer] (1) OR they are so hard-to-sell that they are extremely expensive to buy [e.g. "Types, Tableaus, and Gödel’s God" from Gödel]. (2)…
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Burning (throwing) books...
The new way of "burning" books: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now libraries just... throw them away by the thousands with the "economic cost" excuse. In one way or another, each era finds a way to discard what seems irrelevant...
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