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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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Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /An award-winning cognitive scientist offers a counterintuitive guide to cultivating imagination. Imagination is commonly thought to be the special ...
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Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness--to ...
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Primate Cognitive Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial co...
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What's Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.Human nature ...
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant 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| /“Weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.” —Merlin Sheldrake, autho...
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerPacking fascinating insights and observations into essays that evoke a greater curiosity, this collection explores cons...
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A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What sets humans apart from other animals? Perhaps more than anything else, it is the capacity for innovation. The accumulation of discoveries thro...
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Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better." --Gretchen Rubin Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers "A MUST-READ--a...
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Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The amazing story of a very smart Border collie who redefined animal intelligence. A joyous explanation of behavior, l...
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and i...
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the #1 bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy—“an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend”...
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Cephalopod Behaviour / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $71.99 - Original price $71.99Original price $71.99$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /With their large brains, elaborate sense organs and complex behaviour, cephalopods are among the world's most highly evolved invertebrates. This ...
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The Enigma of Reason
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities p...
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER *New York Times *USAToday *Washington Post *LA Times"Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhap...
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to combat anxiety, im...
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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today Publisher’s Note: Good Thinking ...
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The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember-A Medical Mystery
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Extensively researched. Aguirre writes clearly, concisely, and often cinematically. The book succeeds in providing an accessible yet substantive...
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Decades of research document plants’ im...
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Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.During extraordi...
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation ...
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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 Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, ch...
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The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"The arch-genius…has some radical ideas about the supremacy of the human mind…[Gelernter] is a computer virtuoso who happens to find human consci...
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The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like ad...
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