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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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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer Publisher Comments The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory. An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Publisher Comments Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economists 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 Daniel... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin Publisher Comments Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric R. Kandel Publisher Comments A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V S Ramachandran Publisher Comments In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases -- from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel Publisher Comments Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness by Daniel G Amen Publisher Comments BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) by Norman Doidge Publisher Comments An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries- old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Staff Pick Nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, The Shallows is a fascinating look at the cultural implications and neuroscientific consequences of the Internet Age. The Internet is an unprecedented educational tool and time... (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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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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Strangers To Ourselves : Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (02 Edition) by Timothy D. Wilson Publisher Comments "Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey Publisher Comments Bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ratey presents a groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain.... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer Publisher Comments The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory. An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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