Neuroscience is a vast body of reasearch which looks into how our brain works and how it relates to what we do and who we are. In the last decade and more, a lot of funding has been poured into this and there has been quite impressive progress in the field. Now even some “big” [...]

I would like to recommend two outstanding inspirational books:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. This book is very engaging and it will be hard to put it down once you start it. It is actually a dialogue between a person and a very wise monkey. The monkey actually makes a cultural analysis of our world and goes [...]