Award winning writer Simon Winchester’s latest book is “Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic.” It explores how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.
It's the perennial question: Are we a product of how we were raised or is our identity hard wired by our genetic inheritance? These...
This week on The Book Show, Author Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing – and have done – with the billions...
Sister Helen Prejean is considered one of the nation’s foremost leaders in efforts to abolish the death penalty. In her new book, “River of...