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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what itmeans to be human.In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know aboutthe brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development (how a brain becomes a human). More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition. He examinesquestions that still baffle scientists: if our genes are 99% identical to those of chimpanzees, if our brains are composed of identical molecules, arranged in pretty similar cellular patterns, how come we are so different? And he explores the potential threats and promises of new technologies andtheir ethical, legal, and social implications, wondering how far we should go in eliminating unwanted behavior or enhancing desired characteristics, focusing on the new "brain steroids" and on the use of Ritalin to control young children.The Future of the Brain is a remarkable look at what the brain sciences are telling us about who we are and where we came from--and where we may be headed in the years ahead.

The Future of the Brain - The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias

An essential overview of the science behind stereotypes: from why our brains form them to how recognizing them can help us be less biased. From the time we're babies, our brains constantly sort and label the world around us --- a skill that's crucial for our survival. But, as adolescents are all too aware, there's a tremendous downside: when we do this to groups of people it can cause great harm. Here's a comprehensive introduction to the science behind stereotypes that will help young people make sense of why we classify people, and how we can change our thinking. It covers the history of identifying stereotypes, secret biases in our brains, and how stereotypes affect our sense of self. Most importantly, it covers current research into how science can help us overcome our biases, offering hope for a future where stereotypes are less prevalent and the world is more fair for everyone.



Written by award-winning author Tanya Lloyd Kyi, this timely and hopeful book addresses the issues of discrimination, racism, sexism, ableism and homophobia and offers concrete suggestions on how to make change. It uses scientific inquiry and loads of relatable and interesting examples to explore these uncomfortable topics in age-appropriate and engaging ways. Chapters, sidebars and colorful illustrations break the text into manageable chunks. Besides the many ways this book could be used to inspire frank and in-depth discussions on the importance of addressing stereotypes and bias, it also links to many science and social studies curriculum topics. Backmatter includes an extensive list of sources, suggestions for further reading and an index.

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

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New York

Each of the clever conundrums found in the book has been rated according to its level of difficulty. If the reader can beat the clock to crack them within 60 seconds, they score the allocated number of points. The more lateral puzzles the reader tries, the better they will do.

Brain-Boosting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

* Where do our thoughts come from?

* How can we manipulate our dreams?

* What is the role of the unconscious?

* How do we make choices and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves?



These are some of the questions answered in this groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide about our thoughts.

In this provocative, mind-bending international bestseller, prize-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life's work exploring the inner workings of the human brain.



Sigman's ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions, how we dream and imagine, why we feel certain emotions, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it. Sigman looks at the development of language, how bilingualism helps us to think and our notions of what is good and fair develop far earlier than we think.



Building on his awe-inspiring TED talk and spanning biology, physics, philosophy and medicine as well as gastronomy, magic, music, chess, literature and art, The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how neuroscience serves us in our lives, revealing how the infinity of neurons inside our brains manufacture how we perceive, reason, feel, dream and communicate.

The Secret Life of the Mind

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Pim van Lommel

Missing dust jacket. Cover marks. Overall good condition. I did not read it all and bout it used so there could be some markings I did not detect. Hard to find book. 

Ohio

The Science of the near-Death Experience

In Consciousness Beyond Life, the internationally renowned cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or not our consciousness survives the death of our body. If you enjoy books about near-death experiences, such as those by Raymond Moody, Jeffrey Long, and James Van Praagh; watch televisions shows like Ghosthunters, Touched by an Angel, and Ghost Whisperer; or are interested in works that explore the intersection of faith and science, such as Spiritual Brain, Signature in the Cell, and When Science Meets Religion; you’ll find much to ponder in Consciousness Beyond Life.

Consciousness Beyond Life

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in good condition considering it’s 36 year age! has dust jacket wear, 

Delaware

How to Boost Your Brainpower

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Brain

Richard Restak

Oregon

Unleashing Your Brain's Potential

InMozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives. Everything we think and everything we choose to do alters our brain and fundamentally changes who we are, a process that continues until the end of our lives. Few people think of the brain as being susceptible to change in its actual structure, but in fact we can preselect the kind of brain we will have by continually exposing ourselves to rich and varied life experiences. Unlike other organs that eventually wear out with repeated and sustained use, the brain actually improves the more we challenge it. Most of us incorporate some kind of physical exercise into our daily lives. We do this to improve our bodies and health and generally make us feel better. Why not do the same for the brain? The more we exercise it, the better it performs and the better we feel. Think of Restak as a personal trainer for your brain—he will help you assess your mental strengths and weaknesses, and his entertaining book will set you to thinking about the world and the people around you in a new light, providing you with improved and varied skills and capabilities. From interacting with colleagues to recognizing your own psychological makeup, from understanding the way you see something to why you’re looking at it in the first place, from explaining the cause of panic attacks to warding off performance anxiety, this book will tell you the whys and hows of the brain’s workings. Packed with practical advice and fascinating examples drawn from history, literature, and science,Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilotprovides twenty-eight informative and realistic steps that we can all take to improve our brainpower.

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot

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Daniel G. Amen

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted.

Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body

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Retired school library book. Pen marking and blackened information of previous owners on the inside front cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

Missouri

Science

Explores the workings of the human body, describing such parts as the skin, blood, and digestive system.

The Human Body

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Cordelia Fine

Minnesota

How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

An accessible evaluation of the unconscious mind offers insight into the brain's capacity for self-delusion, revealing inborn tendencies that shape sensations, perceptions, and other thought processes as part of the mind's role in defending and glorifying the ego.

A Mind of Its Own

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Nancy C. Andreasen

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome

'...a lay reader, a medical student, or a generalist who wishes to update on current psychiatry will find much that is useful and inspiring in Brave New Brain' -BMJ'Andreasen has written a truly outstanding book. Brave New Brain informs, provokes thought, conveys the excitement of science, indicates why science matters, and considers both the achievements with respect to clinical application and the difficulties involved. Quite an achievement!' -Science'A very interesting, if not a little worrying, book... Andreasen and the topic manage to hold the reader's attention throughout.' -The Internet

Brave New Brain

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Joe Schwarcz

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Hampshire

179 Inspiring and Enlightening Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life

Prepare to be amazed once again. Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple a Day, Brain Fuel, and Science, Sense and Nonsense comes a fresh batch of inquiries into the science of everyday life. Dr. Joe, as he is affectionately known to millions of readers, listeners, viewers, and students, presents his third book in the Doubleday Canada series he launched with Brain Fuel. Using a Q&A format, it explains the world through science, and science through our common experience. There are sections on diet and nutrition, new drugs, and the dubious claims made for alternative remedies and beauty potions. There is a profusion of inspiring, enlightening, sometime just downright bizarre information drawn from the laboratory, from history, from our medicine cabinets and the bottles under our sinks. Science is everywhere, and Dr. Joe is keeping track - and doing it in a marvelously warm, eminently readable style. Let the brain sparks fly! *Try reading this word backwards.

Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks

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Texas

The Memory Miracle

Natural Scientific 

Richard E. Cytowic

Jonathan Cole

In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human. Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject. Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined sensation," whereby a voice, for example, is not only heard but also seen, felt, or tasted. The trait is involuntary, hereditary, and fairly common. It stayed a scientific mystery for two centuries until Cytowic's original experiments led to a neurological explanation—and to a new concept of brain organization that accentuates emotion over reason. That chicken dinner two decades ago led Cytowic to explore a deeper reality that, he argues, exists in everyone but is often just below the surface of awareness (which is why finding meaning in our lives can be elusive). In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, far from being a mere curiosity, illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what is means to be human—a view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotional knowledge, and self-understanding. This 2003 edition features a new afterword.

The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Revised Edition

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Build a Better Brain at Any Age

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age. Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline, explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Discover what we can learn from “super-brained” people who are in their eighties and nineties with no signs of slowing down—and whether there are truly any benefits to drugs, supplements, and vitamins. Dr. Gupta also addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive decline. He likewise provides you with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical strategies to strengthen your brain every day. Keep Sharp is the only owner’s manual you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy regardless of your age!

Keep Sharp

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Indiana

The Human Brain 

North Carolina

The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems

In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life. To quell anxiety and panic: Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil To fight depression: Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) To curb anger: Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage To conquer impulsiveness and learn to focus: Develop total focus with the One-Page Miracle To stop obsessive worrying: Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises You'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)

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Book is in excellent condition inside the cover. Cover has smudges and a few scratches you can see in the right light. 

100 Perceptual Puzzles (B&N)

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America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed

"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known education experts and pediatricians in America today. And that's a problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, these children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the schools they are in.
In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and others who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns. He explains how parents and teachers can encourage a child's strengths and bypass the child's weaknesses. This type of teaching produces satisfaction and achievement instead of frustration and failure.
Different brains are differently wired, Dr. Levine explains. There are eight fundamental systems, or components, of learning that draw on a variety of neurodevelopmental capacities. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all eight. Using examples drawn from his own extensive experience, Dr. Levine shows how parents and children can identify their strengths and weaknesses to determine their individual learning styles.
For example, some students are creative and write imaginatively but do poorly in history because weak memory skills prevent them from retaining facts. Some students are weak in sequential ordering and can't follow directions. They may test poorly and often don't do well in mathematics. In these cases, Dr. Levine observes, the problem is not a lack of intelligence but a learning style that doesn't fit the assignment. Drawing on his pioneering research and his work with thousands of students, Dr. Levine shows how parents and teachers can develop effective strategies to work through or around these weaknesses.
"It's taken for granted in adult society that we cannot all be 'generalists' skilled in every area of learning and mastery. Nevertheless, we apply tremendous pressure to our children to be good at everything. They are expected to shine in math, reading, writing, speaking, spelling, memorization, comprehension, problem solving...and none of us adults can" do all this, observes Dr. Levine. Learning begins in school but it doesn't end there. Frustrating a child's desire to learn will have lifelong repercussions. This frustration can be avoided if we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning. We must begin to pay more attention to individual learning styles, to individual minds, urges Dr. Levine, so that we can maximize children's learning potential. In A Mind at a Time he shows us how.

A Mind at a Time

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Alex Korb

Daniel J. Siegel

Never read. *All profits from this book will be donated to a community organization supporting families in need*

New Jersey

Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

A guide to overcoming depression takes a look at the intricate brain processes that cause the illness and offers practical and effective approaches towards treatment.

The Upward Spiral

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#paperback #JuvenileNonfiction #Psychology #Brain #Children’s #Guide #TeachingResources #Teachers #HomeSchool box 10
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Founded by Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto, The Arts & Crafts Press is a small fine press producing note cards, books, and block prints by letterpress on antique printing presses.

All have boxed price of $15.95 retail (6 cards and envelopes per box) (3 boxes per design minimum) or $18 retail for a set of 6 individual cards. All cards are 5 x 7 in (portrait) or 7 x 5 in (landscape).

A Kid's Guide to the Brain

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Emily Nagoski

Amelia Nagoski

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men--and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. How can you "love your body" when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you "lean in" at work when you're already giving 110% and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., the bestselling author of Come as You Are, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion, and confront the obstacles that stand between women and well-being. With insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, Burnout reveals: - what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle--and return your body to a state of relaxation. - how to manage the "monitor" in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration. - how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies--and how to fight back. - why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are key to recovering from and preventing burnout"--

Burnout

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Arizona

Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning and the Mathematical Rules That Orchestrate the Cosmos

In a dazzling, lyrical mixture of science and philosophy, acclaimed science writer David Darling makes a provocative case for the workings of human consciousness, its origins, and its destiny when the next Big Bang precipitates a quantum leap in evolution. Equations of Eternity rethinks thought and the existence of intelligence in a way that will give readers a lot to think about.

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Steven Rose

The Future of the Brain - The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

Tanya Lloyd Kyi; Drew Shannon (Illustrator)

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

Joanna Hooper; Roya Ireland; Lagoon Books Staff (Editor)

Brain-Boosting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Mariano Sigman

The Secret Life of the Mind

Pim van Lommel

Consciousness Beyond Life

Roger B. Yepen

How to Boost Your Brainpower

Robin Cook

Brain

Richard Restak

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot

Daniel G. Amen

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body

Fiona Payne (Editor)

The Human Body

Cordelia Fine

A Mind of Its Own

Nancy C. Andreasen

Brave New Brain

Joe Schwarcz

Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks

North America Nutra

Natural Scientific

Richard E. Cytowic; Jonathan Cole

The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Revised Edition

Sanjay Gupta

Keep Sharp

Gilling, Brightwell

The Human Brain

Daniel G. Amen

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)

Barnes and nobles

100 Perceptual Puzzles (B&N)

Mel Levine

A Mind at a Time

Alex Korb; Daniel J. Siegel

The Upward Spiral

Sylvia Funston; Jay Ingram

A Kid's Guide to the Brain

Emily Nagoski; Amelia Nagoski

Burnout

David Darling

Equations of Eternity