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Upon release 12 Books That Changed the World received criticism from reviewers who noted that several items in the list were not considered books. [4] Others also criticized the list as focusing on works put out by white British men, as well as the length of the list. [5] [6] Miles Kingston noted that the list was absent of any foreign texts. [7]
Peterson went on a world tour to promote the book, receiving much attention following an interview with Channel 4 News. [2] [3] The book is written in a more accessible style than his previous academic book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999). [9] A sequel, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, was published in March 2021. [10]
But upon the book's reissue in paperback in 1982, Linda Ray Pratt, writing in The Boston Phoenix, declared that the book "ought to be an anachronism": "The Captive Mind makes a narrow and simplistic argument that tends to see all writers who followed a path different from Milosz’s as acting out of literary ambition and all communists as ...
[11] [12] In a March 2015 interview by Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, Gates said that he would "highly recommend" Superintelligence. [13] According to the New Yorker, philosophers Peter Singer and Derek Parfit "received it as a work of importance". [4] Sam Altman wrote in 2015 that the book is the best thing he has ever read on AI risks. [14]
The Passion of the Western Mind became a bestseller, selling over 200,000 copies by 2006. [7] It "became a staple in some college curriculums". [8] It gave Tarnas' work international respect [9] and was hailed as an important work by Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, John E. Mack, Stanley Krippner, Georg Feuerstein, David Steindl-Rast, John Sculley, Robert A. McDermott, Jeffrey ...
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is a non-fiction book about brains, both human and artificial, by the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.First published in hardcover on November 13, 2012 by Viking Press [1] it became a New York Times Best Seller. [2]
Norway's Karsten Warholm needed a world record to beat Rai Bejamin in the men's 400m hurdles.