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Vintage, February 2023. Trade Paperback. We've all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of science, researchers are discovering that feeling is every bit as important as thinking in this "lively exposé of the growing consensus about the limited power of rationality.....
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Oxford University Press, June 2026. Trade Paperback. bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Neurodiversity is the idea that human brains function in a variety of ways. By understanding that people take in, process, and respond to information differently, we can appreciate how these profound differences affect the ways in.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, January 1999. Trade Paperback. In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved.....
Mariner Books, January 2010. Trade Paperback.
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Penguin Books, January 2016. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times-bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition. Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Book Award in Science.....
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Knopf, October 2007. Hardcover. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the.....
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Doubleday, February 2014. Hardcover. NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compelling....Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip" --The New York Times Book Review The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACE tackles.....
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Penguin Books, January 2016. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times-bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition. Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Book Award in Science.....
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Ecco, September 2012. Trade Paperback. "Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world." --Tom Wolfe Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that.....
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Picador, November 2011. Trade Paperback. Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points.....
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Scribner Book Company, June 2018. Trade Paperback. remainder mark; highlighting. remainder mark; highlighting. In 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 and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us.....
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Plume/Penguin, August 2007. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an.....
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MIT Press, September 2009. Trade Paperback. The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today. This classic work in vision science, written by a leading figure.....
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MIT Press, May 2022. Trade Paperback. An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders. Neurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain, describes the anatomical structures (networks of neurons in the brain) and physiological processes (ways for these.....
St. Martin's Press, January 1990. Hardcover.
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Vintage, October 2018. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. "Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent." --The.....
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Autonomous Press, December 2021. Trade Paperback. The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, March 2010. Hardcover. In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, University of California psychologist and researcher Lawrence Rosenblum explores the astonishing abilities of the five senses--skills of which most of us are remarkably unaware. Drawing on groundbreaking insights into the brain's plasticity.....
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Basic Books, May 2024. Hardcover. "Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind."?Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times-bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety The world's leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness does--cause.....
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The Experiment, January 2024. Hardcover. To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. To professor Susan Barry, he became Dear Oliver--her mentor, friend, and confidant over the course of their unlikely, engrossing ten-year.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Trade Paperback. Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind--to think? Science has offered few answers to.....
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Beaver's Pond Press, November 2004. Paperback. Room for J is a book about a family struggling to come to grips with the unpredictability and unfairness of a severe mental illness. Much of the book is written from the perspective of the father seeking to understand his son J's schizophrenia, but.....
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Anchor, February 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. "Compelling...Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth.....
Macmillan Publishing Company, November 1986. Hardcover.
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Jossey-Bass, January 2010. Paperback.
