Iain McGilchrist

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (2009)

This is a phenomenal book, perhaps one of the best I've ever read. It is neither short nor an easy one. There are more than 500 pages of very dense text that could easily span above 800 in a bit more conventional typesetting... But the true challenge comes from the author; a true erudite, a moder...