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The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In recent years, neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrationa...
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The New Science of Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, 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| /This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity sc...
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Simply The Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The human brain is a most remarkable organ, but how well do we really understand the way it works?What is a brain and what is the mind? Do you on...
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A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How do our brains store—and then conjure up—past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff ...
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communica...
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Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of...
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The Human Brain: A Guided Tour
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level o...
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Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that...
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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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Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof that Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In Brain Wars, acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the...
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So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The pursuit to understand the human brain in all its intricacy is a fascinatingly complex challenge and neuroscience is one of the fastest-growin...
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Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain’s amazing capac...
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space—and why, sometimes, it doesn’t work the way it should. Inside our heads we carry around a...
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Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /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 t...
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Principles of Neural Design
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, “reverse engineering” the brain to unde...
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Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $176.95Original price $176.95 - Original price $176.95Original price $176.95Current price $171.99$171.99 - $171.99Current price $171.99| /Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging, Second Edition provides a coherent introduction to the principles and applications of th...
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How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as...
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely...
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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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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book...Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect h...
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The Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind
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 comprehensive guide to understanding how memory works, how memory forms, the mind-body connection, and more! In the busy, information-filled worl...
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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION "A propulsive, utterly engrossing history... None of it is simple and all of it is captivating."--The New...
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How to Prevent Dementia: Understanding and Managing Cognitive Decline
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 comprehensive guide to preventing Alzheimer's and other thinking disorders from bestselling author and renowned authority Dr. Richard Restak! How...
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.Imagine the astonishment felt b...
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