Ginny Smith & Melanie Challenger
Book Shambles
Two science authors on the show today, both with new books that look at different ways of what makes us human. First up it’s Shambles regular, Ginny Smith chatting to Robin and Josie about her new book Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals, which is out today! And then they chat with Melanie Challenger about her new release, How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb
Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
Psycho-Logical by Dean Burnett
The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw
A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran
The Trouble with Being Born by Emil Cioran
Metamorphosis by Franz Kakfa
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Soul of the White Ant by Eugène Marais
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by Anders Fager
The Repeater Book of the Occult
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