Reading Awesomeness
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This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your iPad/iPhone ( purchase ), Kindle ( purchase ), Nook ( purchase ) or other devices . It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. To learn how to load books to your Kindle using the links below, please watch this video . This other video explains how to upload epub files to a Nook. Calibre (free software) also offers a handy way to load ebooks to e-readers.
by Maria Popova What Freud has to do with auditory cheesecake, European opera and world peace. Last year, Horizon’s fascinating documentary on how music works was one of our most-liked pickings of 2010. But perhaps even more fascinating than the subject of how music works is the question of why it makes us feel the way it does. Today, we try to answer it with seven essential books that bridge music, emotion and cognition, peeling away at that tender intersection of where your brain ends and your soul begins. We love the work of neuroscientist and prolific author Oliver Sacks , whose latest book, The Mind’s Eye , was one of our favorite brain books last year.
