Several natural scientists of behavior are contributing to a book of “short” (i.e., 4 to 40 page) autobiographies. (Are you interested in contributing? Contact the book’s editor, Stephen Ledoux at ledoux@canton.edu for details.) At present, this book is just over half full, and will be released when it is full (at about 200 pages). If more manuscripts arrive, then another volume is possible.

After contributing a chapter to that book, its editor found that he still had many more memories and materials that remained relevant to his story, so he continued writing and wove all these into a fully analyzed and documented autobiography focused on the contingencies that affected the directions, drama, and products of his life.

This new book’s title is Work Takes a Holiday—Confessions of a Natural Scientist of Behavior.

His book, by example, also introduces the possibility of a new grammar, one that by design provides more support for science, especially natural behavior science, by reducing reliance on the personal pronouns, especially “I,” that in our culture too easily imply inner agents purportedly responsible for behavior. As the author says, these pronouns are best treated (i.e., reacted to) as verbal shortcuts for longer, inconvenient, but more accurate phrases like “DNA–based carbon–unit locus of contingency effects.” (Aren’t verbal shortcuts nice?)

This 384–page, 2022 book (published by ABCs of Los Alamos, NM) is available, with a list price of $32, through “Print–On–Demand” at www.lulu.com.

The BOOKS page at www.behaviorology.org (the TIBI Website) features a detailed description of the book along with the book’s covers, Table of Contents, Introduction (i.e., Chapter 1) and Chapter 2.

Whether interested in the science, its practitioners, its history, or all of these, check the book out. See the BOOKs page for details.