The Talent Code
Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Written by Daniel Coyle
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $25.00
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In
Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”...
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Musicophilia
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In
Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”...
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A Journey Round My Skull
Written by Frigyes Karinthy
Translated by Vernon Duckworth Barker
Introduction by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $17.95
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.98
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much...
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Within Reason
Rationality and Human Behavior
Written by Donald Calne
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $14.00
It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?
In
Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B...
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