Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 4 October 2010
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Fairytale
When he was a young boy, Adam Reid stumbled into an enchanted forest where a beautiful fairy showed him the image of a woman who was destined to be his beloved. Years later, the adult Adam had dismissed this childhood incident as a delusion until he opens his door to discover Brigit Malone, the woman of his destiny.
Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language Winner of the 2004 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Award Competition in the Psychology category
Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and asserts that animals are not capable of acquiring or using human language.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Audiobooks | 14 August 2007
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The God Delusion
read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. Initially posted 2007-05-15
Updated: 2007-05-14 (book fixed-missing pages added); added a link to BBC-4 TV Show 'Hard Talk" - Richard Dawkins.
