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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Alistair MacLean
Her Benny
Silas K. Hocking
Vedere din Parfumerie
Silvia Kerim
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
Bertrand Russell
The Analects of Confucious
Confucius
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
William James
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
New Scientists Books Staff, New Scientist
Mutual Aid
Pyotr Kropotkin
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Olivia Fraser, William Dalrymple
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day "Wild Child"

Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day "Wild Child" - Susan Curtiss As the story of personal tragedy it was unforgettable. Whether it made real progress in the study of linguistics is an open question, although I've just read in Wikipedia that Genie's grammar tests where marked artificially low, for dropping final letters in words.

But what stood out most of all, as I read this in one sitting in a library in some foreign country, was how indifferent the scientists seemed to be when it came to shopping around a desperately needy little girl and then dropping her. Genie's ability to get cars on the freeway to suddenly stop and give her their raincoats was just desperately sad.

Imagine my happiness when I see that there is now an entire book about her scientific mistreatment, lawsuit and movie. Genie is now in her mid 50's. Here's hoping this is all helping her somehow.