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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mental...
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The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach...
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating exploration of the human brain that combines “the leading edge of consciousness science with surprisingly personal and philosophica...
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /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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Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break—and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectivelyWe all ...
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The Brain Under Siege: Solving the Mystery of Brain Disease, and How Scientists are Following the Clues to a Cure
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /1 in 6 people suffer from brain diseases like MS, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. Now, a Harvard neurologist takes you inside the brain under attac...
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Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or fem...
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain - And How They Guide You
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works . . . Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelist's literary flair.” —Cass ...
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Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the YearA Guardian “Best Book about Ideas” of the YearNo one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists ...
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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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From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Wired Most Fascinating Book of the Year“An important book that reminds us that navigation remains one of our most underappreciated arts.”—Trist...
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Dancing Is the Best Medicine: The Science of How Moving To a Beat Is Good for Body, Brain, and Soul
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Lively and enlightening.”—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post“[A] zippy guide to better health.”—Publisher’s Weekly STARRED ReviewDiscover why hum...
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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help ...
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Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The audacious effort to map the brain—and along with it our personalities and mental afflictions, from autism to schizophrenia—by a star in neuro...
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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins...
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What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner, 2023 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association Division 1 in General PsychologyMost of us, no matter how rational we t...
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The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and th...
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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and ...
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Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious,...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersi...
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the b...
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring gu...
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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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Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billi...
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