Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury. Her most recent book is Can’t Remember What I Forgot: Your Memory, Your Mind, Your Future. (January 2012)
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
January 12, 2012
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
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Over the High-Tech Rainbow
November 24, 2011
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Mind Control & the Internet
June 23, 2011
World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet
by Michael Chorost
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
by Jaron Lanier
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She Woke Them Up
April 28, 2011
Twin: A Memoir
by Allen Shawn
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How Do We Know What We Know?
January 13, 2011
The Mind’s Eye
by Oliver Sacks
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Brotherhood
August 19, 2010
Restrepo a film by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
War
by Sebastian Junger
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The iPad Revolution
June 10, 2010
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Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence
November 19, 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus, with Karl Weber
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Making It
May 28, 2009
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
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The War We Don’t Want to See
December 18, 2008
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007
edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz, with a foreword by Bob Woodruff
Generation Kill
a miniseries written and produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the book by Evan Wright
Baghdad ER a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
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Are You Happy?
April 3, 2008
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
by Tal Ben-Shahar
Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
by Eric G. Wilson
What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings
by Jerome Kagan
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At the Gandhi Café
February 15, 2007
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
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They Were in New York
December 21, 2006
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Thanks for the Memory
October 5, 2006
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by Eric R. Kandel
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
by Katrina Firlik
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The Moment of Truth?
April 28, 2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older
by Elkhonon Goldberg
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City Folks
May 13, 2004
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
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Evangelists for Kids
May 29, 2003
Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children
by Ann Hulbert
Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America
by Peter N. Stearns
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser
A Mind at a Time
by Mel Levine, M.D.
The Myth of Laziness
by Mel Levine, M.D.
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Heart of Darkness
September 26, 2002
The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Portrait of an Epidemic
by David Shenk
The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young
by Gary Small, M.D.
A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
by John J. Ratey, M.D.
The Aging Brain
by Lawrence Whalley
Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s
by Thomas DeBaggio
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Back to Life in Texas
December 2, 1999
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
by Larry McMurtry
Duane’s Depressed
by Larry McMurtry
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Fresh Air Blues
September 24, 1998
Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
by Charles. Siebert
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
by Robert Sullivan
Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
by Marie Winn
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The Awful Truth
September 25, 1997
The Story of Junk: A Novel by Linda Yablonsky
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
Eve’s Apple by Jonathan Rosen
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Do the Right Thing
October 8, 1992
Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell
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There’s No Place Like Home
March 5, 1992
Alva Myrdal: A Daughter’s Memoir by Sissela Bok
Childhood by Jan Myrdal, translated by Christine Swanson
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The Fight Over Teen-age Abortion
March 29, 1990
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The Rise of the Homeless
February 16, 1989
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol
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Portrait of the Artist
June 30, 1988
Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan
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Over the High-Tech Rainbow
October 24, 2011
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Reading in the Cloud
June 10, 2011
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What the iPad Can’t Do
June 8, 2010
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Lost in the Virtual Pile-On
December 11, 2009
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Loans to the Poorest: Where Does the Money Really Go?
November 12, 2009
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The Micro Miracle?
November 11, 2009