Joy of reading a book

Reading the book of life

With the publication of the human genome sequence, we are passing into a new phase in the analysis of what is popularly being called the ‘Book of Life’. However symbolic the shift, it is nevertheless palpable: the data will be in a more or less contiguous, more or less stable form, constituting a reference text against which coding and regulatory regions, polymorphisms, model organism sequences...

Reading the Qur’an as a Law Book

Book Reading in Urban China

Authors’ Note: We wish to thank Hui Niu for her assistance in preparing data files and Yu Lee for his extensive help in all phases of data management and statistical analysis. An earlier version of this material was presented at “Repositioning Hong Kong and Shanghai in Modern Chinese History,” a conference at the University of Hong Kong. Financial support for both data collection and analysis w...

A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity.

Although books can expose people to new people and places, whether books also have health benefits beyond other types of reading materials is not known. This study examined whether those who read books have a survival advantage over those who do not read books and over those who read other types of materials, and if so, whether cognition mediates this book reading effect. The cohort consisted o...

Reading ‘Writing the Book of the World’