BARBARA OAKLEY

   

    Explorations in mind and place

Works

Pathological Altruism (Click here for more about this book)
“What a wonderful book! This is one of the few books in evolutionary biology I've read in the past ten years that taught me something completely new.”
—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University.

Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a codependent killer, or just give me a shot at loving you, Dear, and other reflections on helping that hurts (Click here for more about this book)
“Riveting and disturbing, an investigation into American-heartland pathos in which ‘guilt,’ ‘innocence,’ ‘victim,’ ‘perpetrator,’ come to seem almost hopelessly tangled. Barbara Oakley is to be commended for looking so hard and so closely at the motives, in some, that underlie acts of ‘kindness’ and ‘altruism’—suggesting that things are not always as they appear, and the phrase killed with kindness springs from the absolute bedrock of folk wisdom.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, professor of the arts at Princeton University;
recipient of the National Book Award for her novel them;
Pulitzer Prize nominee for the novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde

Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (Click here for more about this book)
“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 (Click here for more about this book)
"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 (Click here for more about this book)
“Always revealing, sometimes explosive, and often hilarious... a book any reader is sure to drink up.”
—Brian Arundel, National Fisherman

Herd Your Horses (Click here for more information)
A perennial best-seller that was selected as a top-100 game by Games Magazine.