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This is an intriguing and comprehensive look at how complexity arise from deep simplicity, which span subjects as diverse as astronomy, chemistry, economics, geography, biology. A truly enjoyable read, the author attempts to explain the simple rules in Universe and its road to chaos and complexity with easily understandable language. However, I do think you need a certain science background (at least up to high school level) to truly enjoy the theories presented in the book.

The illustrations are crucial to support the concepts, although I do wish there are a few more to make the point.

Dr. Jameison wrote a this exuberant energy with her trademark style - relentless, charming, eloquent. She discussed a wide example of people with the exuberant temparment, including Theodoor Roosevelt, John Muir, and countless scientist. It's the zest of life of these people that make them pursue their work. She also discussed the fine line between exuberant and manic, which allude to why some manic-depressive people enjoy the manic phrase of this disease. However well-written, I stopped half-way the book because her examples have become quite repetitive and there is only so much you can discuss on a positive state. Nevertheless, it's a good read and I'll recommend it.

The author provides an eloquent weavinng of the history of the McLean hospital and its elite mental disorder patients. McLean is the Ivy-League of mental health hospital, with patients including John Nash, Ray Charles, Robert Lowell, James Taylor. As one joke said, a true Bostonian now is one that has been to McLean and has an uncle at Beacon hill. McLean also boasts its own school for the disturbed children. Also I sometimes find the chapter a bit disorganized, the author did make a good effort in telling the tale of McLean hospital, which is also a history of modern psychiatry.

In genreal a fascinating read to the different aspects of Human Mind. A more thorough exploration of what our mind can do than ''How the Mind Works''. The first two chapter is a bit hard for those without a biology/psychology background as it goes through the basics of brain biology, neurons and synapsis. However, after eschewing through the first 2 chapters, you'll find it helpful to see what the author refer to in later chapters when he discusses about mood, love, intelligience, etc. After reading this book, I'm more interestsed in seeing the BBC documentary ''The Human Mind''

This is not a bad book about bipolar disorder, mixing clinical description and biography. However, I found it a little bit disjunted when the author switch from one to the next. It seems to loose the flow of the narrative. Yet, if you want to know how a misdiagnosis can influence someone's recovery, I would recommend this book. For a better bipolar narrative, I would reccomend ''An Unquiet Mind''

Highly recommended! It's a good read if you want to know more about bipolar disorder, or if you want some good English literature. This autobiography is very poignant, especially considering that the author herself, a bipolar patient, is also a clinical therapist. This is a great story about how she struggled her illness and eventually triumph over it. She also writes with such prose that makes it very captivating. My favourite bipolar book so far!