reading notes

by Daniel Gilbert ISBN: 9781400077427 Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard, has written an engaging and offbeat examination of our perception of happiness — or more accurately, how we misperceive it. Think you know how happy an event will make you? You’re probably wrong. At least, that is what Gilbert believes, and he builds a [...]

by Andrew Kaufman ISBN: 1552451305 Let’s get this out of the way first: Batman and Superman aren’t in this book. No Wonder Woman or Spiderman — no superheroes you’ve ever heard of before. Which might explain why you wouldn’t have realized superheroes are everywhere, living among regular folk like Tom. This is a story about [...]