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Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--And How You Can Change Them by Richard J Davidson Publisher Comments This longawaited book by a pioneer in brain research offers a new model of our emotions- their origins, their power, and their malleability. For more than thirty years, Richard Davidson has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Vintage) by Antonio Damasio Publisher Comments A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Vintage) by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind — the part you consider to be you — is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John (edt) Brockman Publisher Comments Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John J Medina Synopsis A molecular biologist shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way people teach their children and the way they work. "Brain Rules" is one of the most . . . useful books of our time--Garr Reynolds, author "Presentation... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation by Michael Keller Publisher Comments A stunning graphic adaptation of one of the most famous, contested, and important books of all time. Few books have been as controversial or as historically significant as Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Heinrich Philip Haeckel Synopsis The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist.... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer Publisher Comments A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good by David J Linden Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author comes a andquot;hugely entertainingandquot; (NPR.org) look at vice and virtue through cutting-edge science As he did in his award-winning book The Accidental Mind, David J. Lindenandmdash;highly regarded... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Genetics (Introducing) by Steve Jones Publisher Comments Introducing Genetics takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where genetics plays a part. This book gives us... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Rough Guide to the Brain (2nd) (Rough Guide to the Brain) by Barry J Gibb Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to the Brain is ideal for readers who want to know more about how their brain and mind works and what goes wrong when it doesn't. From how humans have evolved such an impressive organ to how it achieves the feat that is a person. The book... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Dogs Eat Poop, and Other Useless or Gross Information about the Animal Kingdom by Francesca Gould Publisher Comments A third installment in the delightfully disgusting miscellany series that began with the national bestseller, Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body. In the New York Times (extended list) bestseller Why... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion by Rachel Herz Publisher Comments Disgust originated to prevent us from eating poisonous food, but this simple safety mechanism has since evolved into a uniquely human emotion that dictates how we treat others, shapes our cultural norms, and even has implications for our mental and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health by R Douglas Fields Publisher Comments Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked—until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Page-Barbour Lectures) by Freeman J Dyson Publisher Comments Freeman Dyson's latest book does not attempt to bring togetherall of the celebrated physicist's thoughts on science and technology into a unifiedtheory. The emphasis is, instead, on the myriad ways in which the universe presentsitself to us--and how, as... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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