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The Happiness Hypothesis: Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life
An uplifting exploration of ancient wisdom for our modern lives and how it can make us happier Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you...
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our...
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients,...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book...
Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Reveals that all of us can excel at our chosen activities and offers a guide to unlocking our potential 'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.'...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful,...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of
The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works....
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally
An astonishing new contribution to our ongoing quest for the secret of life itself When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer...
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of...
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR...
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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The Brain Sell: When Science Meets Shopping
Science has made the leap from the lab to come to a store near you and the effects on us are phenomenal.Corporations in hyper-competition are now using the new mind...
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the
Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity--and one that remains poorly understood. In The...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even...
The Return of Consciousness: A New Science on Old Questions
Author: Kurt AlmqvistFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 1000g, 280 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022"Consciousness is a scientific problem that is unlike any other. Our own consciousness, as Descartes noted, is...
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
Author: Leigh Cowart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works
Author: Marc Dingman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But...
How To Think: Understanding the Way We Decide, Remember and Make Sense of the World
Author: John Paul Minda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 This book will get you thinking about thinking. We understand more about the brain than ever before and we also...
The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science
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