Beyond

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a 1995 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome. In addition, Sacks studies his patients outside the hospital, often traveling considerable distances to interact with his subjects in their own environments.

This understanding of emotion has been around since Plato. But what if it is wrong? In How Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common-sense ideas about emotions are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date – and that we have been paying the price. Emotions aren't universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.

Based on the lives of three women, Jung Chang tells the eventful history of China: From the grandmother who served as a concubine, through the communist mother to the daughter in today's China, it is a story full of suffering, violence and courage.

Why do we perceive the world the way we do it? Two men have strongly shaped our geographical and physical worldview: Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauß. Measuring the World humorously tells the great story of these very different men.