John Green Books
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist and professor known for his pioneering research on the neural basis of emotions, decision-making, and consciousness. He is the author of several influential books, including 'Descartes’ Error' and 'The Feeling of What Happens', and serves as Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
Known for: Looking for Alaska, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, The Fault in Our Stars
Books by John Green
Looking for Alaska
In this work, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the biological roots of human emotions and their connection to consciousness and reason. Building on his earlier research, he examines how feeling...
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays by John Green that review different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. Drawing from personal experiences, history, and scienc...
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel about two teenagers, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who meet at a cancer support group and fall in love. Despite their illnesses, they embark on a journey...
Key Insights from John Green
The Biological Foundation of Emotion
In my view, the story of emotion begins not in the lofty realms of thought but in the humble labor of the body striving to stay alive. Every human being inherits, from millions of years of evolution, a set of neural mechanisms devoted to the regulation of life—mechanisms that maintain temperature, m...
From Looking for Alaska
Distinction between Emotion and Feeling
Emotions and feelings are often conflated, but distinguishing them is crucial. Emotions are the body’s automated programs—fast, efficient, and executed below the level of conscious control. They are what the body does. Feelings, in contrast, are what the mind experiences when it senses those changes...
From Looking for Alaska
Human-Centered Perspective
The first principle of this book is that the act of reviewing—this uniquely human attempt to assign meaning, value, and stars to the world around us—is itself a portrait of our species. We are meaning-making animals. We find stories in constellations, patterns in noise, purpose amid randomness. When...
From The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Sunsets
I give sunsets five stars. Not because they require it—they would go on existing without our approval—but because they are one of the few universal moments of shared wonder left to us. The color of twilight is ancient, the product of scattering light through an atmosphere we have now irreversibly al...
From The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Hazel and Augustus: The Birth of Connection
Hazel’s reluctant attendance at the cancer support group marks the beginning of everything. She goes because her mother insists—because isolation has crept over her—and because, despite her protests, she wants to feel less alone. In that church basement, when Augustus Waters turns to look at her, it...
From The Fault in Our Stars
The Journey to Amsterdam: Searching for Answers
The wish foundation’s gift allows Augustus to transform his promise to Hazel into reality: a trip to Amsterdam to meet the mysterious author Peter Van Houten. For Hazel, Van Houten’s book defined her worldview; it dared to leave the story unfinished, recognizing that life itself is unfinished. Yet s...
From The Fault in Our Stars
About John Green
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist and professor known for his pioneering research on the neural basis of emotions, decision-making, and consciousness. He is the author of several influential books, including 'Descartes’ Error' and 'The Feeling of What Happens', and serves as Di...
Read more
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist and professor known for his pioneering research on the neural basis of emotions, decision-making, and consciousness. He is the author of several influential books, including 'Descartes’ Error' and 'The Feeling of What Happens', and serves as Di...
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist and professor known for his pioneering research on the neural basis of emotions, decision-making, and consciousness. He is the author of several influential books, including 'Descartes’ Error' and 'The Feeling of What Happens', and serves as Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
Frequently Asked Questions
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist and professor known for his pioneering research on the neural basis of emotions, decision-making, and consciousness. He is the author of several influential books, including 'Descartes’ Error' and 'The Feeling of What Happens', and serves as Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
Read John Green's books in 15 minutes
Get AI-powered summaries with key insights from 3 books by John Green.