In this lively book, John Macnamara shows how a number of important thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge. He discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive psychology, focusing on central themes that he believes have strongly influenced modern psychology. This is not a neutral historical survey, but a vehicle for Macnamara's compelling and provocative arguments on the relevance and worth of certain aspects of psychological and philosophical thought. The historical figures discussed are quite varied—from Plato to Thomas Jefferson to Sigmund Freud—and include numerous Christian philosophers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. The book assumes no previous background in the subject matter; Macnamara often simplifies abstract concepts via homespun examples (many using his beloved dog, Freddie). This is a quirky, engaging book, as well as the last work by a highly influential figure in cognitive psychology.

Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a multidimensional, unconventional look at McLuhan's life and ideas in the context of the information age. An evocative, imaginative, and visually exciting mosaic of aphorisms and images, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror presents McLuhan's own words - short prose, aphorisms, interviews, letters, and dialogues - alongside reminiscences about him by today's most renowned cultural critics.

Looking Through the Rearview Mirror includes selections from the writings of the Autobiography Workshop members who live in Dana Point, California and its environs. Under the inspiration of The Reverend Paul Lachlan Peck, these pieces have been chosen by their writers as samplings of the autobiographical narratives written over the past few years, since the organization of the group. Most members have attained their senior citizen status, having lived up to seven or more decades in the Twentieth Century. Why did we write this book? It is because we have lived through some great experiences that best typify the Twentieth Century; and our lives bear recording. At an average age of 75 years, the book represents about 1500 years of human living, with all its anxieties, turmoil, joys, humor, devastating incidents, and so much more. We have experienced war and peace, unemployment and employment, poverty and wealth, health and sickness, joy and sorrow, and the whole range of human emotions that go with them. What's most interesting is that each one approached solutions to this human life in unique ways, not one the same as another.

“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? If there is anti-matter, can there be anti-people? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Saluting the brilliant but unsung female mathematician Emmy Noether as well as other giants of physics, Goldberg answers these questions and more, exuberantly demonstrating that symmetry is the big idea—and the key to what lies ahead.

From the Warren Commission Report to Operation Chaos to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, many major events of the last half of the 20th century are encompassed in the explosive memoirs of Turner, a bestselling investigative journalist and a former ten-year agent of the FBI.

A Journey of Spiritual Growth Looking back at the events of our lives, we can choose to see only the bad things that have occured. That was Nancy Weems' way of thinking until someone challenged it and caused her to appreciate all that God had done through her life. In Looking Through the Rearview Mirror, Weems begins with chronicling her years of growing up in the Miami of the 1960s. After the tragic deaths of her brother at a young age and then her cousin when she was 16, Weems began committing to paper the experiences she had and the lessons she learned. Culled from these writings and written from a mature perspective, this book shares the highlights of a journey spent walking with God. We may not be able to undo our past, but we can learn from it if we look through the rearview mirror of life. College students have raved about Looking Through the Rearview Mirror with comments such as, "The book is like having a conversation. It's so refreshing. It was written to people who need to be reminded that there is a God who loves them just as they are and that He is in control." and "I could identify with your thoughts and conclusions."

"Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely. . . ". So begins the second autobiography of Mortimer Adler, the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among other things, he discusses the enormously controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World and his involvement with the Aspen Institute.