Author: Jodie Russell

Naomi Rokotnitz, Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2011) 197 pp. £50.99 EPUB, PDF, £64.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-230-33737-4 Through her exploration of four key plays written and performed throughout history, Rokotnitz presents her audience with the hypothesis that art doesn’t just imitate life but it is a direct exemplar…

A David Redish, The Mind Within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and how those Decisions Go Wrong (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013) 392 pp. £27.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780199891887 Redish’s book is ambitious in its scope and style; not only does he want to explain how action-selection systems work in the brain, but also how…