These recent books that touch on various topics discussed in this book are accessible to nonscientist readers and most are a good read.
Blum, Deborah. Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Bruer, John T. The Myth of the First Three Years: An Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
Dowling, John E. Creating Mind: How the Brain Works. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Eliot, Lise. What’s Going On in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
Gopnik, A., Andres N. Meltzoff, and Patricia K. Kuhl. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1999.
Kolb, Bryan, and Ian Q. Whishaw. An Introduction to Brain and Behavior. New York: Worth Publishers, 2001.
McEwen, Bruce (with Elizabeth Norton Lasley). The End of Stress as We Know It. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2002.
Pinker, Steven. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002.
Restak, Richard. The Secret Life of the Brain. Washington, D.C.: The Dana Press and Joseph Henry Press, 2001.
Ridley, Matt. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003.
Sanes, Dan H., Thomas A. Reh, and William A. Harris. Development of the Nervous System. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.
Wright, Lawrence. Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.