Fall 1995 Volume 4, Number 4

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman. (Bantam Books, NY, 1995. 352 pp., $23.95). Goleman draws on his decade of New York Times science reporting to explore insights from recent research in psychology and neuroscience and to argue that the brain's cognitive and emotional structures work together to produce thinking. He proposes that purely rational intelligence leads less surely to a successful life than balanced interaction between intellect and emotion.

NEUROSCIENCE, MEMORY AND LANGUAGE (Decade of the Brain, Volume I), edited by Richard D. Broadwell. (Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1995. 147 pp.). For the Decade of the Brain (1990-99), the Library of Congress and the National Institute of Mental Health launched a series of semi-annual symposia on the brain. This book is comprised of papers presented by several of the nation's top researchers at the first three symposia, held in 1991 and 1992. Order by phone (with Visa or MasterCard) from the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 202-707-0204. $26, plus $5 shipping and handling.

THE NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES by Konrad Lorenz. (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. 384 pp., $35) This "Russian Manuscript" was written 50 years ago on paper sacks and scraps in a Russian prison camp by Lorenz, founder of the study of comparative animal behavior. Lorenz later received a Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine and became the first director of the Max Planck Institutes for Marine Biology and Behavioral Physiology. The Russian Manuscript was lost for nearly three decades. It was found in an attic in 1991, two years after his death. In it, Lorenz wrote, "The route to an understanding of humans leads just as surely through an understanding of animals as the evolutionary pathway of humans has led through animal precursors."