An engrossing social commentary on 19th Century. It is a story of Adam Bede, a carpenter, falls in love with skittish and arrogant Hetty Sorrel. She is seduced by the reckless squire, Arthur Donnithorne. Their imprudence and pride lead them to murder and vengeance. It captivates the reader with its incredible plot, powerful characterization, and an amazing language. A page-turner!

It is an engrossing commentary on 19th Century social life. It is a story of Adam Bede, a carpenter who falls in love with skittish and arrogant Hetty Sorrel. She is seduced by the reckless squire, Arthur Donnithorne. Their imprudence and pride lead them to murder and vengeance. It captivates the reader with its incredible plot, powerful characterization, and an amazing language. A page-turner!

An engrossing social commentary on 19th Century. It is a story of Adam Bede, a carpenter, falls in love with skittish and arrogant Hetty Sorrel. She is seduced by the reckless squire, Arthur Donnithorne. Their imprudence and pride lead them to murder and vengeance. It captivates the reader with its incredible plot, powerful characterization, and an amazing language. A page-turner!

Many scientists look at the universe and conclude we are here by chance. The astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich looks at the same evidence—and the fact that the universe is comprehensible to our minds—and sees it as proof for the intentions of a Creator-God. The more rigorous science becomes, the more clearly God’s handiwork can be understood.

How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life. Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy to argue that mind and life are more continuous than has previously been accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind. Where there is life, Thompson argues, there is mind: life and mind share common principles of self-organization, and the self-organizing features of mind are an enriched version of the self-organizing features of life. Rather than trying to close the explanatory gap, Thompson marshals philosophical and scientific analyses to bring unprecedented insight to the nature of life and consciousness. This synthesis of phenomenology and biology helps make Mind in Life a vital and long-awaited addition to his landmark volume The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (coauthored with Eleanor Rosch and Francisco Varela). Endlessly interesting and accessible, Mind in Life is a groundbreaking addition to the fields of the theory of the mind, life science, and phenomenology.