Neuroscience
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Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind
$30.00 Read moreWe face radical new threats to our freedom of thought – here’s how to retain control
For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. ‘Excellent- Author: McCarthy-Jones, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0861544579
- Language: English
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not
$22.00 Add to cartYou recognize when you know something for certain, right? You “know” the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001–you know these
- Author: Burton, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 031254152X
- Language: English
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Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives
$14.99 Add to cartIn Brain Wars, acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the mind-body debate: research showing that the mind and c
- Author: Beauregard, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 006207122X
- Language: English
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Attention Seeking
$17.00 Add to cartAttention Seeking is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.
Everything depends on what, if anything,- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0374539278
- Language: English
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The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
$27.00 Add to cartHow much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors sur-rounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing deci… [more below]
- Author: Young, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1591846617
- Language: English
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states an… [more below]
- Author: Owen, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 150113521X
- Language: English
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Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
$24.95 Add to cartIn his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine’s sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscie
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0231177003
- Language: English
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Pain: The Science of Suffering
$26.95 Add to cartPain is one of medicine’s greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. “Sheer survival and logic” was how he descri
- Series: Maps of the Mind
- Author: Wall, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0231120079
- Language: English
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The Organism
$35.00 Add to cartIn this remarkable book by one of the great psychologists and neurologists of the early twentieth century, Kurt Goldstein presents a summation of his “holistic” theory of the human organism. In the co
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Goldstein, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0942299973
- Language: English
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Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
$17.95 Add to cartA look at the true nature of the zombie brain
Even if you’ve never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering ga- Author: Verstynen, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 069117315X
- Language: English
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Peripheral Neuropathy Diet: A Beginner’s 3-Week Step-by-Step Plan to Managing the Condition Through Diet, With Sample Recipes and a 7-Day Meal Pla
$13.24 Add to cartPeripheral neuropathy is a condition in which the peripheral nerves are damaged.
These nerves are responsible for sending signals from the body to the brain. When they are damaged, they don’t work prop
- Author: Marshwell, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1088111246
- Language: English
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
$20.00 Add to cart“A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing.” —The Boston Globe
“Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our spe- Author: Wilson, Frank R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0679740473
- Language: English
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Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
$24.95 Add to cartLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging t
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0231159110
- Language: English
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Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
$29.95 Add to cartLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging t
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0231159102
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: How I Left My Learning Disability Behind and Other Stories of Cognitive Transformation
$17.00 Add to cartA bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain, and started a program that has helped thous… [more below]
- Author: Arrowsmith-Young, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1451607946
- Language: English
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On Wanting to Change
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change–to become our best selves through po- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0374172048
- Language: English
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Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality
$30.00 Read moreInspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.
David J. Linden has devoted his career to understa- Author: Linden, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698886
- Language: English
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Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
$19.95 Add to cartThe neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectively
We all have habits we’d like to break, but for many of us it- Author: Poldrack, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 069124149X
- Language: English
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Dancing Is the Best Medicine: The Science of How Moving to a Beat Is Good for Body, Brain, and Soul
$18.95 Add to cart“Lively and enlightening.”-Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post
“[A] zippy guide to better health.”–Publisher’s Weekly STARRED Review Discover why humans were designed for dancing–and learn how to boog- Author: Christensen, Julia F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1771646349
- Language: English
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Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUp to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientif… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Passingham, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198786220
- Language: English
