BARBARA OAKLEY

   

    Explorations in mind and place

Articles

Writing Raw's 7 Questions with Barbara Oakley, June, 2009.

"Writing Compelling Nonfiction," Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, Volume 8, Number 2, July-December 2009.

"What a Tangled Web We Weave," The Scientist, April 10th, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Living the Scientific Life, March 27th, 2009, and The Scienceblogs Book Club, April 1st, 2009.

"The Mind of a Thief: How to Protect Yourself While Traveling" article by Jason Policastro based on an interview with Barbara Oakley, Traveller's Notebook, February 21, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Metapsychology Online Reviews, January 20th, 2009.


Video review of Evil Genes on Joanne Manaster's Joanne Loves Science blog, January 10th, 2009.

Review of Evil Genes on Neurotopia, a blog "chock full of glial goodness." December 4th, 2008.

Review of Evil Genes on the blog Gene Expression. December 3rd, 2008.

Review of Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology by Mark Riley in the Journal of Biological Engineering, November 25th, 2008.

"Interview with Barbara Oakley: Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, by Professor Anil Aggrawal, September 19th, 2008.

"A Prototypical Modern-Day, Stable Sinister System: Texas Southern University," excerpt from Evil Genes in Rick Reis's Tomorrow's Professor Blog, September 16th, 2008.

"A Genetic Basis for Evil?" Review of Evil Genes by Professor Anil Aggrawal (Editor-in-Chief), Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews, September 20th, 2008. "...I was quite impr­essed by the book, and would like to keep the book in my library for ever. Very good thought provoking read..."

"An Interview with Barbara Oakley: Evil Genes," by Michael F. Shaughnessy, EdNews, September 8, 2008.

Review of Evil Genes in The Book Stall, August, 2008. (59.3KB)
Review of Evil Genes in Crime Times: Linking Brain Dysfunction to Disordered/​Criminal/​Psychopathic Behavior, Friday, April 18, 2008.

"A World Afflicted with Blind Spots," op-ed by Barbara Oakley in The Chicago Tribune. (14.2KB)
"The Killer in the Lecture Hall, "op-ed by Barbara Oakley in The New York Times, April 19, 2007.

"The Devil Inside" article by Barbara Oakley in The Times Higher Education Supplement. (228.6KB)
Psychology Today review of Evil Genes (1.4MB)
Rebuttal by Barbara Oakley in the online American Scientist, February 12, 2008, to the review of Evil Genes by Robert J. Richards (see below) (28.5KB)
Review of Evil Genes by Robert J. Richards, "Bad Seeds" in The American Scientist, March/​April 2008. See rebuttal above.

"Barbara Oakley's Evil Genes explores how successfully sinister people succeed," review of Evil Genes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (22.6KB)
"Evil Genes the code for malignant narcissist," review of Evil Genes in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. (34.3KB)
"Do you know someone who is truly evil?" review of Evil Genes in the Dayton Daily News. (32.1KB)
"Born to Be Bad" brief review in the Chicago Sun-Times. (196.0KB)
"See no evil, hear no evil," article about evil in the Boulder Daily Camera that discusses Evil Genes. (23.1KB)
"Evil genes made me do it," EurekAlert! (42.7KB)
Reviews of Evil Genes from "Med School Chats." (838.8KB)
"Evil Genes: Barbara Oakley delves into the science behind bad behavior," review from The Dallas Morning News (22.6KB)

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend
“A fascinating scientific and personal exploration of the roots of evil, filled with human insight and telling detail.”
—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University
Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Eds. Guruprasad Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, and Luis Kun
"I am very impressed with the enormous dedication and skill that created this major, highly-original contribution. I know of nothing like it."
—Dr. Bruce Alberts, President Emeritus of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Co-chair of the InterAcademy Council.
Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler
“Always revealing, sometimes explosive, and often hilarious... a book any reader is sure to drink up.”
--Brian Arundel, National Fisherman
Board Game
Herd Your Horses
A perennial best-seller that was selected as a top-100 game by Games Magazine.

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