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The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking and Acting
How does the brain work? How do billions of neurons bring about ideas, sensations, emotions, and actions? Why do children learn faster than elderly people? What can go wrong in...
Made Up Minds: Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
"Made-up Minds" addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of a computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's...
Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts and Representational
Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavour. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and...
The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind
What is it that allows human beings to think the way we do? What enables us to communicate with one another through the use of speech? Is the difference between...
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the
Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception...
Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free
In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness-"one of the giants of modern thinking about high performance" (Alex Hutchinson)-flips the script on the pursuit...
The Dream Cure: How recalling your dreams can heal your life
Decode your dreams and heal your life. 'The essential book to fix your life from the inside.' Richard Moriarty, North West District Editor - The Sun In Dream Cure Theresa...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Introducing Freud
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as 'Id', 'Ego', 'libido', 'neurosis' and 'Oedipus Complex' have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But...
Spoilt Creatures: An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling,
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024 'A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The...
How to Build a Mind: Dreams and Diaries
Imagine a banana. What colour is it? Yellow, of course. Now try to form a picture of one that doesn't exist, that can't exist: a blue banana with red spots....
A User's Guide to the Brain
Dr John Ratey explains the brains most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and ways in which we can influence their operations...
Contemplating Minds: A Forum for Artificial Intelligence
The book review column in "Artificial Intelligence" has evolved from simple reviews to a forum where reviewers and authors debate current, often competing, theories of human and artificial intelligence. "Contemplating...
Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings
This text provides a general survey of and introduction to the range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora - the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other...
Artificial Life: An Overview
Artificial life , a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and...
The Philosophy of Artificial Life
The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be...
Circuits of the Mind
In this groundbreaking work, computer scientist Leslie G. Valiant details a promising new computational approach to studying the intricate workings of the human brain.
The Human Zoo
A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape. A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered...
The You Code: What your habits say about you
The only book to tell you what your habits say about you - and how to read other people - by Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible Did...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the...
Say the Right Thing
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A Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist, Social Activism/Charity A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change. In the current period...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
Wisdom and Where to Find it: A Book of Truth
Wisdom and Where to Find It is about common questions that are asked, particularly in the early stages of the spiritual life, and arise out of self-enquiry. Such as: What...
Introducing Freud
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But...
X and WHY: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters
In the last century it was argued that men are from Mars and women are from Venus - but things have moved on a long way since then. In this...
The Medusa Touch
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Author: Peter Van GreenawayBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1973Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small crease to the back of the DJ. Otherwise fine first editionA writer...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Author: Haruki MurakamiBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvill Secker London , 2014Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ with shelf wear. Sticker pack included. The narrative follows Tsukuru Tazaki,...
Sociology In Its Psychological Aspects
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Author: Charles A. Ellwood, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: D. Appleton and Company, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn and rubbed brown cloth. Bumping on spine and corners. Light...
Mental Health And Environment
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Author: Lord Taylor And Sidney ChaveBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe book examines the intricate relationship between an individual's mental well-being and their...
Psychiatry And Its History: Methodological Problems In Research
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Author: George Mora, M.D. And Jeanne L. Brand, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume addresses the historical development within...
Neurotic Styles
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Author: David ShapiroBinding: HardbackPublished: Basic Books, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book offers a comprehensive analysis of neurotic styles. It examines the characteristic patterns of thought, feeling,...
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll...
Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence,
Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly...
Influence at Work: Capture attention, connect with others, convince
'Outstanding...This book is superb.' Robert B Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence To be successful at work you also need to be influential at work. And to be influential requires an...
The Happy Brain: The Science of Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
Do you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers.* In The Happy Brain , neuroscientist Dean Burnett delves deep into the inner...
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's exploration of the extraordinary creative genius of the mind's eye "has many virtues, of which sheer intellectual excitement is the foremost" ( Nature ). Hoffman explains...
The Mathematical Brain
The concept of numbers and the ability to recognize and process them is innate, part of everyone's intellectual apparatus whether they've had formal education or not. This "number instinct" is...
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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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...
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to
In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the...
Influence at Work: Capture attention, connect with others, convince
'Outstanding...This book is superb.' Robert B Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence To be successful at work you also need to be influential at work. And to be influential requires an...
Exhausted: An A-Z for the Weary
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOURChosen by the Financial Times and Stylist as a Book To Read in 2024'Schaffner is insightful, charming and visionary' Susan Elderkin, author of...
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment and satisfaction from life People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains...
How to Help Your Child Cope With Anything: The must-have guide to
From accredited child psychologist, Dr Alison McClymont, comes a book that bridges the gap between complex psychology and straightforward parenting advice. No parent can guard against everything but parental knowledge...
How Brains Think
What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence...
House of Cards
Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing,...