IB Diploma Programme: Books in the Library

Examines the symbiotic relationship between culture and language, discussing how each impacts the other, whether different languages can lead a speaker to have different thoughts, and related topics.

National Public Radio correspondent Eric Weiner, a "self-described mope," recounts his travels to ten countries, including India, Bhutan, and Iceland, in search of happiness, describing what he actually found there.

Examination of consciousness, how it evolved in human beings, insights into the mind, and how consciousness should be rethought.

Examines philosophical discussions of skepticism from throughout history and provides the author's observations on the structure of cognition and knowledge.

Discusses the mind-body problem in relation to computers to support Penrose's view that some facets of human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.

Discusses how people can gain the most career satisfaction with a balance between natural talent and personal passion, explores the conditions that enable and repress that possibility, and describes the careers of Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Meg Ryan, and others.

A discussion of the sociology of knowledge, arguing that knowledge involves--besides ideology--both subjective and objective reality in the form of false consciousness, propaganda, science, and art.

Argues that conceptual metaphor plays an important role in developing mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious.

An introduction to philosophy focuses on the questions of what it means to be human and how to react to the reality of death by exploring ancient Stoic, Christian, early modern and contemporary approaches as well as the views of Nietzsche.

The author shares stories of his work with neurological patients, providing case studies of people afflicted with neglect syndrome, temporal lobe epilepsy, amnesia, and other disorders; and discusses what his research reveals about the architecture of the human brain.