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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without...
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Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This is a book about a big idea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly, all at once, we re suffering from a collapse in Meaning. Fundamentalism and nihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a world that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster fatigue are leaving us at our worst. It s vital that we regain control of the stories we re telling because they...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Magic is the art of creating impossible effects that violate our expectations, games that conclude with the apparent transgression of natural law. As spectators, we find magic tricks-and the state of true cognitive dissonance that they create-tremendously provocative. Why is our brain caught by surprise? The human brain is a very advanced organ, its capacities highly adapted to our environment and lifestyle. But its capacities are not unlimited....
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Of all the parts of the human body, the brain is perhaps the most amazing. This complex organ runs the show when it comes to our bodies. It is the command center that keeps the body s voluntary and involuntary systems working as they should. Readers will find out how the brain works, the many different jobs it does, and more in this photo-illustrated and engaging text.
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research, and new frontiers of social cognition including diversity,...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build the world, learn from it, and sometimes deceive themselves For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that our senses determine what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few decades, a new view has emerged that has proven to be both provocative and hugely powerful-that the mind is not a passive observer,...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
How do our brains store -- and then conjure up -- past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Te imaginas cómo sería tu vida sin ansiedad? Este libro es una poderosa herramienta para que la dejes atrás. Si estás atrapado por ella y te aventuras a navegar entre estas páginas, descubrirás por qué te sientes así y cómo, usando técnicas sencillas, tanto físicas como mentales, lograrás superarla."--Amazon.com.
"Can you imagine what your life would be like without anxiety? This book is a powerful tool for you to leave it behind....
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Self-help books like The Secret promise that we can tap into the 'law of attraction' to control our destiny, simply by changing our thoughts. If we strip away the mystique, at the heart of this idea is a fundamental truth that is backed up by the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience: most of the things we want from life health, happiness, wealth, love - are governed by our ability to think, feel and act; in other words, by our brain. Dr Tara Swart,...
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