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The Neuroscience of Human Nature
Written by Ronald T. Kellogg
Format: Trade Paperback, 340 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
Using the findings of recent neuroscience, a psychologist reveals what sets humans apart from all other species, offering a fascinating exploration of our marvelous and sometimes frightening cognitive abilities and potentials.
According to human genome research, there is a remarkable degree of overlap in the DNA of humans and chimpanzees. So... Read more >
The Neuroscience of Human Nature
Written by Ronald T. Kellogg
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
Using the findings of recent neuroscience, a psychologist reveals what sets humans apart from all other species, offering a fascinating exploration of our marvelous and sometimes frightening cognitive abilities and potentials. According to human genome research, there is a remarkable degree of overlap in the DNA of humans and chimpanzees. So... Read more >
How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
Written by Susan M. Schneider
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $12.99
Featuring illustrative human, pet, and wild-animal anecdotes, this book is a unique and fascinating introduction to a science that is truly epic in scope. Children quickly learn that actions have consequences. This elementary lesson is repeated again and again throughout adulthood as we adjust our behaviors according to the reactions they... Read more >
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How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
Written by Susan M. Schneider
Format: Trade Paperback, 383 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $21.00
Featuring illustrative human, pet, and wild-animal anecdotes, this book is a unique and fascinating introduction to a science that is truly epic in scope. Children quickly learn that actions have consequences. This elementary lesson is repeated again and again throughout adulthood as we adjust our behaviors according to the reactions they... Read more >
How Emotions Warp What We Hear
Written by John W. Reich
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $11.99
An insightful discussion of the social-science research on the decision-making processes to help us overcome the biases that divide us. Our social unity is under attack from extremists on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Often the loudest and most influential public voices today are also the most divisive. Amid the... Read more >
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How Emotions Warp What We Hear
Written by John W. Reich
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $19.00
An insightful discussion of the social-science research on the decision-making processes to help us overcome the biases that divide us. Our social unity is under attack from extremists on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Often the loudest and most influential public voices today are also the most divisive. Amid the... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Jeffrey Fleishman
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
Foreign correspondent James Ryan was there whenever the world changed: in the Middle East, in the Balkans, in the former Soviet bloc. But now he can't remember these events; he can't recall anything long-term, except the summer of his fifteenth year following his mother's death. It was the summer his father...
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A Novel
Written by Jeffrey Fleishman
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
Foreign correspondent James Ryan was there whenever the world changed: in the Middle East, in the Balkans, in the former Soviet bloc. But now he can't remember these events; he can't recall anything long-term, except the summer of his fifteenth year following his mother's death. It was the summer his father...
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Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom
Written by Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $27.00
We all understand the importance of daily exercise in keeping physically fit. But mental exercise is just as essential to our health and well-being—especially when it comes to defending against forgetfulness, memory loss, and even dementia. These and other age-associated afflictions were once regarded as all but inevitable, but in fact... Read more >
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Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom
Written by Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $13.99
We all understand the importance of daily exercise in keeping physically fit. But mental exercise is just as essential to our health and well-being—especially when it comes to defending against forgetfulness, memory loss, and even dementia. These and other age-associated afflictions were once regarded as all but inevitable, but in fact... Read more >
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The Secret Lives of the Brain
Written by David Eagleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $15.95
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the...
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What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
Written by Brian Christian
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing...
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Written by David Disalvo
Format: Trade Paperback, 309 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $19.00
Why do we routinely choose options that don’t meet our short-term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we willingly expose ourselves to temptations that undercut our hard-fought progress to overcome addictions? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common coincidences? Why do we insist we’re right even... Read more >
Written by David Disalvo
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $11.99
Why do we routinely choose options that don’t meet our short-term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we willingly expose ourselves to temptations that undercut our hard-fought progress to overcome addictions? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common coincidences? Why do we insist we’re right even... Read more >
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Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
Written by Dan Gardner
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it... Read more >
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A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
Written by Russ Harris
Foreword by Steven Hayes, PhD
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $15.95
Too many of us miss out on opportunities in life because we lack self-confidence. Whether it's public speaking, taking on a leadership role, or asking someone for a date, there are situations in which we just don't feel equipped to handle the challenges we face.
Russ Harris offers a surprising solution... Read more >
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Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits
Written by Wray Herbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.00
Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks... Read more >
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A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Written by Tali Sharot
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $20.00
From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.
Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive...
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The Secret Lives of the Brain
Written by David Eagleman
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $26.95
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to...
The Secret Lives of the Brain
Written by David Eagleman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $11.99
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to...
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The Secret Lives of the Brain
Written by David Eagleman
Read by David Eagleman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $17.50
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to...
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New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ
Written by David Shenk
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.95
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.
DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent... Read more >
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What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian
Read by Brian Christian
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $20.00
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”
Named... Read more >
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What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $27.95
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”
Named... Read more >
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What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $13.99
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”
Named... Read more >
