Great books you read in 2009?
tokenadult: My favorite read in early 2009 was What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovichhttp://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...which is full of helpful information on developing the kind of cognition missed by IQ tests that constitutes rationality, very important information for parents, educators, and business leaders.2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species, has been a banner year for new books on evolutionary biology. Some of my favorites includeWhy Evolution is True by Jerry Coynehttp://www.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0670...The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkinshttp://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution...andEvolution: The First Four Billion Years edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis.http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-First-Four-Billion-Years/dp/...All are full of up to date information about biology, which, as Thedosius Dobzhansky said, only makes sense in the light of evolution.SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnerhttp://www.amazon.com/SuperFreakonomics-Cooling-Patriotic-Pr...is enjoyable and thought-provoking, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, for all the usual reasons applying to collaborations by those two authors.