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JAMES H. BOOTH

Broca's Brain is the most recent production of Sagan's brain, and after justifying the title (a reference to a French neuroanatomist's celebrated cerebrum), the remainder of the book tells more of Sagan's involvement in the scientific enterprise than it does of the late Paul Broca's…. [The coverage] on out-of-body type thanatological experiences seems far-fetched both factually and theoretically. On points of theology, his arguments from "higher criticism" are dated, and his archeology suffers from a similarly outdated singlemindedness. Nonetheless, the volume's strengths far surpass any weaknesses, making reading it a sheer vacation.

James H. Booth, in a review of "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science," in Science Books & Films, Vol. XV, No. 4, March, 1980, p. 190.

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1. Introduction
2. Edward Edelson
3. Richard Berendzen
4. Peter Stoler
5. Richard Restak
6. R. J. Herrnstein
7. John Updike
8. Stephen C. Reingold
9. Charles Weingartner
10. Edmund Fuller
11. Richard Berendzen
12. Dewey Schwartzenburg
13. James H. Booth
14. Isaac Asimov
15. David Roberts
16. William J. O'Malley, S.J.
17. Jeffrey Marsh
18. David Paul Rebovich
19. Copyright

1. John Updike