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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology considers how to learn from the examples of religious sages and saints from a secular and philosophical perspective without formally committing to religion.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the human brain, including memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, and explores developments in neuroscience, the effects of trauma, and male versus female brains.
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Thrilling new discoveries in science and technology are announced almost daily. Cutting-Edge Science and Technology keeps readers at the forefront of new research. Brain Science covers fascinating cutting-edge neuroscience topics, from brain-to-brain communication systems to thought-controlled limbs and brain-mapping technologies. High-impact photos and explanatory graphics and charts bring scientific concepts to life. Features include essential...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world, this historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify atrocities, asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can not expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, argues that moderate lip service to religion only blinds us to the real perils...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
With an alcoholic father and a depressed mother Doty's life was at a dead end when, at age twelve, he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb....
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how they can be united, and where they still fall short. Both endeavors, Edward O. Wilson reveals, have their roots in human creativity--the defining trait of our species. Reflecting on the deepest origins of language, storytelling, and art, Wilson demonstrates...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wolf considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection as we become increasingly dependent upon digital technologies.
A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now that we are completely immersed in the internet and digital devices, our ways of processing language have altered dramatically....
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