PATTERNS

When you're a physician nationally renowned fencing champion art patron author poet and member of dozens of philanthropic organizations over the years you're bound to notice a pattern or two. In fact nothing escapes Dr. Ivan Gilbert's attention in PATTERNS--a compellingly thoughtful meditation on how humanity is networked and bound together by routines and programming that are as apparent as they are confounding. Genetics relationships social hierarchies politics impulses and urges addictions daily interactions truths lies emotions motivations agendas decisions and everything in between are woven into the unique tapestry of this book. Delving deeply into how people (children teens adults families clans tribes and societies) behave as well as why the world still operates on programming millions of years in the making Gilbert takes the reader on a journey that reveals as much about connections as it does about mankind.