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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 408 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The startling new science behind sudden acts of violence committed by ordinary, sane people from a leading neurobiologist According to R. Douglas Fields, PhD, we all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged. The daily headlines are filled with examples of otherwise rational people with no history of violence or mental illness suddenly snapping in a domestic dispute, barroom brawl, or road rage attack. We all wish to believe...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying. Cognitive neurologist Sara Manning Peskin demystifies...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on a path to extinction, until a dramatic shift occurred. We used our mental abilities to navigate new terrain and changing climates. We hunted, foraged, tracked tides, shucked oysters- anything we could do to survive. Before long, our species had pulled itself back from the brink and was on more stable ground. What saved us? The human brain- and its evolutionary journey is unlike any other. In A History of the...
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Publisher
Tyndale Refresh
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Do you feel less happy today than you did just a few years ago? You are not alone. Americans are the unhappiest they've ever been since the Great Depression, and it's causing big problems. Unhappiness is associated with heart disease, premature aging, weight gain, damage to the immune system, addictions, depression, and memory issues, which all lead to a harder, shorter life. While unhappiness can literally kill you, you have an opportunity to create...
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"From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing...
Author
Publisher
Tendencias
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
480, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
"La Tierra esta repleta de imagenes y texturas, sonidos y vibraciones, olores y sabores, campos electricos y magneticos. Pero cada individuo esta encerrado dentro de su burbuja sensorial, propia y unica, y solo percibe una pequena porcion de la inmensidad de nuestro planeta. Este libro nos abre las puertas a dimensiones hasta ahora insondables: el mundo tal como lo perciben otros animales. Encontraremos escarabajos que se sienten atraidos por el fuego;...
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Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, color ; 24 cm
Description
"Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are "you"? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations, Eagleman...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 428 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain.
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