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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: Wh...
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing.In a few decade...
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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the o...
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose rema...
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The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are i...
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Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“[This] book will convince you that forgetting helps you remember and distractions can make you more creative.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bests...
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, T...
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The Society of Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Marvin Minsky — one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT — gives a revolutionary ans...
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." —The Boston Globe"Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to...
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind. What scientific co...
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street J...
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Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With...
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Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better.” —Gretchen RubinAward-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers “A MUST-READ—a ...
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times...
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin t...
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. Despite decades of research...
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An Experiment with Time
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An Experiment with Time is a book by the British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher J. W. Dunne about his precognitive dreams and a the...
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Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the working...
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory "Highly entertaining." --Adam Gop...
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Models for Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide to Effective Decision Making, Deep Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, and Independent Thinking
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Stay alert and avoid being tricked. Apply logic and analysis to your everyday life. Detect hidden assumptions, spot inconsistencies, and recognize ...
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The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way ...
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The Mind of a Bee
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780691253893 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 10-10-2023 Pages: 344 Product D...
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The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner - Science Category2018 Forward Indies Finalist - Psychology Category Why are we obsessed with the thi...
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