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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. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing...
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School with DVD
by John Medina Publisher Comments Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know — such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we...
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
by Gary Marcus Publisher Comments How the accidents of evolution created our quirky, imperfect minds; and what we can do about it. Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus...
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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
by Sandra Blakeslee Publisher Comments In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of “body maps” in the brain–and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman 
Powells.com Staff Pick Diane Ackerman writes with grace and wisdom. Her prose is lyrical, sensuous, and utterly charming. I've never been disappointed in a work by Ackerman, but An Alchemy of Mind takes the cake. Here she covers neurochemistry and -physiology and the concept...
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On Deep History and the Brain
by Daniel Lord Smail Publisher Comments When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip...
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The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates
by James R. Bloedel and Timothy J. Ebner and Steven P. Wise Publisher Comments Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic...
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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...
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The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
by David J. Linden Publisher Comments You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says:...
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
by V. S. Ramachandran Publisher Comments How can people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, said of V.S. Ramachandran's first book, "The patients he describes are fascinating, and his experiments on them are both...
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Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain
by David Bainbridge Publisher Comments In his latest book, David Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure...
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A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond
by William H Calvin Publisher Comments This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now...
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Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
by Richard Rapport Publisher Comments Two Doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to communicate with one another. Both did their most important research in labs set up on their kitchen...
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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Fyssen Foundation Symposium)
by Stanislas Dehaene Publisher Comments The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between...
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Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
by Gerald M. Edelman Publisher Comments Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness (the very center of human concern) by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M...
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The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man
by Jeffrey Satinover Publisher Comments An enthralling look at the convergence of brain science, biological computation and quantum physics, and what it implies about our minds, our selves, our future, even God Do we really have free will or do we just imagine we do? Do we create our own...
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by Eric R. Kandel Publisher Comments Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science of mind. This science now...
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Neurochemical Correlates of Cerebral Ischemia Vol. 7: Advances in Neurochemistry
by Nicholas G Bazan Publisher Comments In this timely volume, eminent researchers provide detailed coverage of the relevant function of neurochemical correlates to cerebral ischemia as well as their pathophysiological significance....
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The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture?
by John E. Dowling Publisher Comments Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that...
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Marijuana and Madness: Psychiatry and Neurobiology
by David Castle and Robin Murray Publisher Comments An up-to-date overview of the psychiatry and neuroscience of marijuana with emphasis on psychotic disorders....
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