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Affect Regulation & the Repair of the Selfby Allan N. SchoreISBN 0393704076 (0-393-70407-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Scienceby Gary F. MarcusISBN 0262632683 (0-262-63268-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375704051 (0-375-70405-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalised for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-DOPA and Parkinson's in the late 1960s and his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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![Burch, Neil: Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity: [proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity Held at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, November 28-30, 1973]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306308681.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "Burch, Neil: Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity: [proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity Held at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, November 28-30, 1973]")
Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity: [proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity Held at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, November 28-30, 1973]by Neil Burch, H. L. AltshulerISBN 0306308681 (0-306-30868-1)
Hardcover, Plenum Press
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Brain Plasticityby Hans-Joachim FreundISBN 0397517602 (0-397-51760-2)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Brain: The Last Frontierby Richard M. RestakISBN 0385134053 (0-385-13405-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cerebral Cortex: The Barrel Cortex of Rodentsby Edeard G. Jones, Irving T. DiamondISBN 0306448475 (0-306-44847-5)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Active Drugsby Andrew Weil, Winifred RosenISBN 0395331900 (0-395-33190-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Cochleaby Peter Dallos, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. FayISBN 0387944494 (0-387-94449-4)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mindby Daniel ReisbergISBN 0393969258 (0-393-96925-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Cognitive Brainby Arnold TrehubISBN 0262700492 (0-262-70049-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cognitive Brain'Book summary:The Cognitive Brain provides an original account of many aspects of cognition. It explains, in terms of specified neuronal mechanisms and systems, how the human brain does its cognitive work.
Most current neurally-based models of human cognition focus on a single narrow domain, such as visual pattern recognition; The Cognitive Brain proposes a theoretical model of integrated mechanisms that can account for human cognitive competence on many basic tasks in visual-cognitive and lexical-semantic domains. Trehub's detailed and biologically plausible model of the cognitive brain covers functions such as learning, imagery, stereopsis, pattern recognition, scene assembly, analysis of spatial relations, object search, semantic processing, narrative comprehension, planning, and motivation. A diverse body of neurophysiological, psychological, and clinical findings is presented in support of the model, and a variety of computer simulation tests demonstrate its competence.
Contents: Introduction. Neuronal Properties. Learning, Imagery, Tokens, and Types: The Synaptic Matrix. Modeling the World, Locating the Self, Selective Attention: The Retinoid System. Accessory Circuits. Building a Semantic Network. Analysis and Representation of Object Relations. ,Composing Behavior: Registers for Plans and Actions. Set Point and Motive: The Formation and Resolution of Goals. Learning and Recalling Canonical Visual Patterns. Learning and Recalling Objects with Naturally Varying Shapes. Self-Directed Learning in a Complex Environment. Narrative Comprehension and Other Aspects of the Semantic Network. Illusions and Ambiguous Shapes: Epiphenomena of Brain Mechanisms. Other Experimental and Clinical Evidence. Overview and Reflections
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Cognitive Neuroscienceby Michael D. Rugg, RuggISBN 0262680947 (0-262-68094-7)
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The Coloring Review of Neuroscienceby D. Michael McKeoughISBN 0316562092 (0-316-56209-2)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Commissurotomy, Consciousness and the Unity of Mindby Charles E. MarksISBN 0262630761 (0-262-63076-1)
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Computational Cell Biologyby Christopher P. Fall, John Wagner, John Tyson, Eric MarlandISBN 0387953698 (0-387-95369-8)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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The Computer and the Brainby John Von Neumann, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0300084730 (0-300-08473-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Computer and the Brain'Book summary:Whether they think it's impossible or inevitable, most people have highly polarised views on artificial intelligence. John von Neumann, genius, mathematician and inventor of the nearly ubiquitous computer architecture bearing his name, blazed trails for both camps in The Computer and the Brain.
This short book, originally written for Yale's Silliman lectures but published posthumously, summarises his views on machine and biological intelligence with unprecedented clarity and precision. His understanding of neuroscience was that of a brilliant and strongly motivated amateur at the end of the 1950s, good enough to take on the problem but by no means matching his comprehension of the machines to which he had devoted much of his professional life. Still, his take on intracranial computation is stunningly prescient--he looks beyond the then-fashionable digital metaphors to suggest a semi-analogue strategy that uses parallel processing to make up for its deficiency in speed.
Prominent neuroscientific thinkers Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland provide a brief, enlightening foreword to the second edition, placing the author's thinking in context and grounding the reader in the scientific milieu that gave rise to The Computer and the Brain. Though his computer architecture is slowly growing obsolete, von Neumann has given us a more lasting legacy in his thinking about thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
Creating Mind: How the Brain Worksby John DowlingISBN 0393974464 (0-393-97446-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animalby Norbert WienerISBN 026273009X (0-262-73009-X)
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Design for a Brainby W.R. AshbyISBN 0412200902 (0-412-20090-2)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experienceby Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Francisco J. VerelaISBN 0262720213 (0-262-72021-3)
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End of Faith: Religion, Terror, And the Future of Reasonby Sam HarrisISBN 0393327655 (0-393-32765-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of Faith: Religion, Terror, And the Future of Reason'Book summary:Sam Harris cranks out blunt, hard-hitting chapters to make his case for why faith itself is the most dangerous element of modern life. And if the devil's in the details, then you'll find Satan waiting at the back of the book in the very substantial notes section where Harris saves his more esoteric discussions to avoid sidetracking the urgency of his message.
Interestingly, Harris is not just focused on debunking religious faith, though he makes his compelling arguments with verve and intellectual clarity. The End of Faith is also a bit of a philosophical Swiss Army knife. Once he has presented his arguments on why, in an age of Weapons of Mass Destruction, belief is now a hazard of great proportions, he focuses on proposing alternate approaches to the mysteries of life. Harris recognizes the truth of the human condition, that we fear death, and we often crave "something more" we cannot easily define, and which is not met by accumulating more material possessions. But by attempting to provide the cure for the ills it defines, the book bites off a bit more than it can comfortably chew in its modest page count (however the rich Bibliography provides more than enough background for an intrigued reader to follow up for months on any particular strand of the author' musings.)
Harris' heart is not as much in the latter chapters, though, but in presenting his main premise. Simply stated, any belief system that speaks with assurance about the hereafter has the potential to place far less value on the here and now. And thus the corollary -- when death is simply a door translating us from one existence to another, it loses its sting and finality. Harris pointedly asks us to consider that those who do not fear death for themselves, and who also revere ancient scriptures instructing them to mete it out generously to others, may soon have these weapons in their own hands. If thoughts along the same line haunt you, this is your book.--Ed Dobeas [via]
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Essential Neurosurgeryby Andrew H. KayeISBN 0443053472 (0-443-05347-2)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Evolution of Wonder : Thinking about Religion with and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscienceby Kelly BulkeleyISBN 0415938406 (0-415-93840-6)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problemby J. ShearISBN 026269221X (0-262-69221-X)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Findings and Current Opinion in Cognitive Neuroscienceby Larry R. Squire, Stephen M. KosslynISBN 026269204X (0-262-69204-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Findings and Current Opinion in Cognitive Neuroscience'Book summary:Cognitive neuroscience has undergone explosive growth in the past ten years. New brain-imaging technologies have allowed researchers to address questions that until recently remained in the realm of mere speculation. Moreover, better computers and new theories have led to more detailed models of neural function. These developments have made it possible to link perception, attention, memory, and other aspects of cognition to neurobiology.Because researchers come to cognitive neuroscience from a variety of fields, researchers and students alike find it difficult to ascertain the core literature. This volume, which contains forty-six review articles from recent issues of Current Opinion in Neurobiology, provides easy access to the current state of theory and findings in the field. The book is organized into five sections: Perception and Attention, Neuronal Plasticity and Memory, Cognition, The Organization of Action, and Development and Structure. The articles contain bibliographies to enable the reader to pursue individual topics in greater depth.
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From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugsby Andrew Weil, Winnifred RosenISBN 0395660793 (0-395-66079-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugsby Houghton Mifflin Company Staff, Winifred Rosen, Andrew WeilISBN 0395911524 (0-395-91152-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Fundamental Neuroscienceby Duane E. Haines, Ard, J. R. Bloedel, P. B. Brown, N. F. Capra, R. B. Chronister, M. P. Schenk, M. E. Kirkman, G. W. ArmstrongISBN 0443066035 (0-443-06603-5)
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A General Theory of Loveby Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard LannonISBN 0375709223 (0-375-70922-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genesby Dean H. HamerISBN 0385720319 (0-385-72031-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genes'Book summary:LEADING GENETICIST DEAN HAMER CRACKS THE CODE BEHIND WHY WE ARE PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN GOD. IN A BOOK THAT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE, HAMER BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATES HOW OUR INCLINATION TOWARD FAITH IS INFLUENCED BY OUR GENES.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God, expressing a conviction that has existed since the beginning of recorded time and is shared by billions around the world. In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination toward religious faith is no accident; it is in good measure due to our genes. In fact, he argues, spiritual belief may offer an evolutionary advantage by providing humans with a sense of purpose and the courage and will to overcome hardship and loss. And, as a growing body of evidence suggests, belief also increases our chances of reproductive survival by helping to reduce stress, prevent disease, and extend life.
Hamer shows that new discoveries in behavioral genetics and neurobiology indicate that humans inherit a set of predispositions that make their brains ready and eager to embrace a higher power. By analyzing the genetic makeup of over a thousand people of different ages and backgrounds, and comparing their DNA samples against a scale that measures spirituality, Hamer actually identified a specific God gene that appears to influence spirituality.
Popular science at its best, The God Gene is an in-depth, fully accessible inquiry into the cutting-edge research that is changing the way we think about ourselves, our world, and our culture. Written with balance and integrity, without seeking to confirm or deny the existence of God, The God Gene brilliantly illuminates the mechanism by which belief itself is biologically fostered. Its a book that bridges the gap between science and religion, and one that will appeal to the readers of Genesis and Genome alike.More editions of The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genes:
The Great Brain Book: An Inside Look At The Inside Of Your Headby Eric Brace, H. P. Newquist, Keith KasnotISBN 0439458951 (0-439-45895-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and Visual Cognitionby Shimon UllmanISBN 0262710072 (0-262-71007-2)
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A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousnessby Nicholas HumphreyISBN 0387987193 (0-387-98719-3)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and Schoolby National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, Rodney R. Cocking, John D. Bransford, Ann L. BrownISBN 0309070368 (0-309-07036-8)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School'Book summary:This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods - to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. "How People Learn" examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system. The topics include: how learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain; how existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn; what the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach; the amazing learning potential of infants; the relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace; learning needs and opportunities for teachers; and a realistic look at the role of technology in education. [via]
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Human Brainby John NolteISBN 0323013201 (0-323-01320-1)
Softcover, Mosby Inc
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The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpointby J. A. Kiernan, Murray L. BarrISBN 0397508832 (0-397-50883-2)
Softcover, Lippincott
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Human Tracesby Sebastian FaulksISBN 0375502262 (0-375-50226-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Traces'Book summary:What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces.
The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria.
If The Girl at the Lion dOr was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera. [via]More editions of Human Traces:
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Selfby Rodolfo R. LlinasISBN 0262621630 (0-262-62163-0)
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Inattentional Blindnessby Irvin Rock, Arien MacKISBN 0262632039 (0-262-63203-9)
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Instant Notes Neuroscienceby Alan LongstaffISBN 0387915826 (0-387-91582-6)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis
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An Introduction to Neuropathologyby J. Hume Adams, David I. Graham, D.G.F. HarrimanISBN 0443015546 (0-443-01554-6)
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An Invitation to Cognitive Science Vol. 2 : Visual Cognitionby Daniel N. Osherson, Stephen M. KosslynISBN 0262650428 (0-262-65042-8)
Softcover, MIT Press
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Janus: A Summing Upby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0394728866 (0-394-72886-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Janus: A Summing Up'Book summary:"To put it crudely: evolution has left a few screws loose between the neocortex and the hypothalamus." Thus Arthur Koestler defines his hypothesis of "schizophysiology" in Janus. Written towards the end of his life this book serves as a summation of his earlier scientific writings -- among them "The Act of Creation," "The Case of the Midwife Toad" and "The Ghost in the Machine." Schizophysiology is a condition which Koestler sees as singularly human. It seeks to explain "the chronic, quasi-schizophrenic split between reason and emotion" and does so by an evolutionary argument. Outstanding and thought-provoking whether you agree or disagree with his process or conclusions! [via]
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The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscienceby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0275956032 (0-275-95603-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience'Book summary:In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions. Instead of trying to unravel the riddle of a mythical entity called the mind, Szasz suggests that our task should be to understand and judge persons always as moral agents responsible for their own actions, not as victims of brain chemistry. This is Szasz's most ambitious work to date. In his best-selling book, The Myth of Mental IllnesS≪/i>, he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict and coping as mental illness. In Our Right to DrugS≪/i>, he exposed the irrationality and political opportunism that fuels the Drug War. In The Meaning of Mind, he warns that we misconstrue the dialogue within as a problem of consciousness and neuroscience, and do so at our own peril.
In The Meaning of Mind, Thomas Szasz argues that only as a verb does the word mind mean something in the real world, namely, attending or heeding. Minding is the ability to pay attention and adapt to one's environment by using language to communicate with others and oneself. Viewing the mind as a potentially infinite variety of self-conversations is the key that unlocks many of the mysteries we associate with this concept. Modern neuroscience is a misdirected effort to explain mind in terms of brain functions. The claims and conclusions of the diverse academics and scientists who engage in this enterprise undermine the concepts of moral agency and personal responsibility. Szasz shows that the cognitive function of speech is to enable us to talk not only to others but to ourselves (in short, to be our own interlocutor), and that the view that mind is brainembraced by both the scientific community and the popular pressis not an empirical finding but a rhetorical ruse concealing humanity's unceasing struggle to control persons by controlling the vocabulary. The discourse of brain-mind, unlike the discourse of man as moral agent, protects people from the dilemmas intrinsic to holding themselves responsible for their own actions and holding others responsible for theirs. Because we live in an age blessed by the fruits of materialist science, reductionist explanations of the relationship between brain and mind are more popular today than ever, making this book an indispensible addition to the seemingly recondite debate about, simply, who we are.
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Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Agingby Mark A. McDaniel, Gilles EinsteinISBN 0300105703 (0-300-10570-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Merging Of The Senses Cognitive Neuroscienceby Barry E. SteinISBN 0262693011 (0-262-69301-1)
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Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Centuryby Robert L. SolsoISBN 0262692236 (0-262-69223-6)
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Mind Matters: How Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Livesby Michael S. GazzanigaISBN 0395500958 (0-395-50095-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Molecules of the Mind: The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychologyby Jon FranklinISBN 0440500052 (0-440-50005-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Lifeby Robert WrightISBN 0316875015 (0-316-87501-5)
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The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brainby Rhawn JosephISBN 0306445107 (0-306-44510-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brain'Book summary:In the beginning there was not only life but the ability to communicate and eventually to cooperate among the most basic, primeval creatures. In The Naked Neuron Dr. Joseph - an internationally respected neuroscientist and author of the highly praised The Right Brain and the Unconscious: Discovering the Stranger Within - takes us on an intriguing journey through time as he traces the evolution of communication and language from the most primitive single-celled animals to our earliest ancestors to humans today. As he so clearly demonstrates, we are linked to all levels of animals in a common bond of sensing, feeling, and communication. Be it singing wolves, dancing bees, or writhing rock and roll dancers, all communicate a treasure chest of meaning in the absence of the spoken word. Approximately 700 million years ago, a unique type of cell came into being - the neuron. This "naked" neuron, or nerve cell, lacked a protective fatty sheath. Still, it marked a monumental and world altering development, since it would become the building block of the brain. The naked neuron generated a revolutionary change resulting in a greater complexity and subtlety of thought. Dr. Joseph vividly depicts how neurons conferred on early humans advanced powers of mental and sensory acuity, including the gift of remembering one's past and contemplating the future. Although humans possess much of the same ancient brain tissue as our fellow primates, Dr. Joseph reveals to us the singular features of the human brain that have enabled humans uniquely to develop complex, spoken language. He holds us spellbound, revealing that although the new and old brain tissue are couched within the same brain, each often has difficulty understanding the impulses and language of the other. This ground-breaking book draws on Dr. Joseph's brilliant and original research and theories, fusing the latest discoveries made in neuroscience, sociobiology, and anthropology. He illuminates how the languages of th[via]More editions of The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brain:
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A Natural History of the Sensesby Diane AckermanISBN 0394573358 (0-394-57335-8)
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Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing: Molecules, Neurons, And Systemsby Floris G. Wouterlood, Laszlo Zaborszky, Jose Luis LanciegoISBN 0387289410 (0-387-28941-0)
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Neuroanatomy: A Programmed Textby Richard L. SidmanISBN 0316789852 (0-316-78985-2)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Neuroanatomy: An Illustrated Colour Textby A. R. Crossman, D. NearyISBN 0443100365 (0-443-10036-5)
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Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mindby Jean-Pierre Changeux, Laurence GareyISBN 0394536924 (0-394-53692-4)
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Neuropsychology: The Neural Bases of Mental Functionby Marie T. BanichISBN 0395666996 (0-395-66699-6)
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Neuroscienceby Alan LongstaffISBN 041535188X (0-415-35188-X)
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Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Actionby Michael A. Arbib, Nancy Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, Robert John RusselISBN 0268014906 (0-268-01490-6)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Neuroscience for Rehabilitationby Cohen, Helen, OtrISBN 039754930X (0-397-54930-X)
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The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brainby William R. UttalISBN 0262710102 (0-262-71010-2)
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An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gageby Malcolm MacMillanISBN 0262632594 (0-262-63259-4)
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On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, Phenomenological, and Transpersonal Perspectivesby Harry T. HuntISBN 0300062303 (0-300-06230-3)
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Plasticity of the Auditory Systemby Thomas N. Parks, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, Edwin W. RubelISBN 0387209867 (0-387-20986-7)
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Pulsed Neural Networksby Christopher M. Bishop, Wolfgang MaassISBN 0262632217 (0-262-63221-7)
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The Race for Consciousnessby John Gerald TaylorISBN 0262700867 (0-262-70086-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Race for Consciousness'Book summary:Incorporating centuries of thought and decades of research into one model of consciousness is no easy feat, but neural network guru John Taylor puts it all together in The Race for Consciousness. Suggesting early on that no scientific endeavor has ever succeeded without a clear goal in sight, he takes care to specify the aims he thinks consciousness researchers should have in mind when pursuing their work; his definitions and boundaries, while not uncontroversial, are thought-provoking. From there he outlines previous stabs at theories and is unrelenting in exposing their strengths and weaknesses.
Taylor builds a theory of his own on this sturdy foundation--he proposes a relational model in which interactions between different brain states inevitably create the subjective feeling that we call consciousness. His command of the field of research is impressive, drawing on physics, computer science, philosophy, biology, and medicine, but he is always scrupulous when acknowledging gaps in the data or potential challenges to his ideas. The reader must be prepared to be flexible and patient; Taylor's ideas take time to build and his model is much stronger for it. The rewards of persistence are rich, though--this just might be the groundbreaking work from which our next scientific Renaissance grows. Taylor admits he has only taken the first step toward his goal, but expects there to be many more runners in the race for consciousness. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Right Brain and the Unconscious: Discovering the Stranger Withinby R. JosephISBN 0306443309 (0-306-44330-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Brain and the Unconscious: Discovering the Stranger Within'Book summary:This breakthrough book presents, for the first time, the scientific underpinnings of the unconscious. Whereas clinical psychologists embrace the world of the mind and neuroscientists examine the physiology of the brain, neither approach alone can adequately explain the magnificent nuances of this remarkable organ or the realm of the unconscious. Here Dr. Joseph, an internationally recognized expert in the fields of both neuroscience and clinical psychology, weds these two seemingly disparate disciplines into one, generating one of the most astonishing books of our time. He offers compelling stories that show the extent to which humans are unaware of the intense power of our right brains and limbic systems. Although our left brain devises seemingly rational reasons for our choices and behavior, most of us have barely any conception of the stranger that lurks within our right brain. When we humans select a mate or act in a self-defeating manner at work or at home, what forces are truly at play? Why are so many people stunned that they repeatedly end up in destructive relationships? According to Dr. Joseph, the experiences of our childhood are etched onto the very circuitry of our brains and can profoundly influence our decisions on an unconscious level for the rest of our lives. He explicates how our inner Child, Parent, and Adult struggle to gain mastery of our choices. He further demonstrates how these inner forces trigger our defense mechanisms, keeping us in the dark about our true motivations. The revelations of this book will forever change the course of clinical psychology and neuropsychology. By merging clinical psychology and neuroscience, two antagonistic yet complementary disciplines, Dr. Joseph blazes a new path illuminating the most intriguing workings of the deepest recesses of our minds.[via]More editions of The Right Brain and the Unconscious: Discovering the Stranger Within:
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Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deafby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375704078 (0-375-70407-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Self and Its Brainby Karl Raimund Popper, John C. EcclesISBN 0415058988 (0-415-05898-8)
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The Shattered Mindby Howard GardnerISBN 0394719468 (0-394-71946-8)
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The Shattered Mind: The Person After Brain Damageby Howard GardnerISBN 039449315X (0-394-49315-X)
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Shufflebrainby Paul PietschISBN 0395294800 (0-395-29480-0)
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Similarity and Symbols in Human Thinkingby Lance J. Rips, Steven A. SlomanISBN 0262692147 (0-262-69214-7)
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Six Thinking Hatsby Edward De BonoISBN 0316178314 (0-316-17831-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Thinking Hats'Book summary:YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats": * WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures * RED HAT: the emotional view * BLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hat * YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive * GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas * BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you-and your business, whether it's a start-up or a major corporation-can use to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life. [via]
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Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management from the Creator of Lateral Thinkingby Edward De BonoISBN 0316177911 (0-316-17791-1)
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Sleep and Dreamingby Jacob Empson, Michael B. WangISBN 0333947657 (0-333-94765-7)
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Thought and Languageby VygotskyISBN 0262720108 (0-262-72010-8)
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories Of A Chemical Boyhoodby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375704043 (0-375-70404-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tungsten: Memories Of A Chemical Boyhood'Book summary:From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, and teachers, his curiosity was encouraged and abetted by aunts, uncles, parents, and older brothers. But soon after his sixth birthday, the Second World War broke out and he was evacuated from London, as were hundreds of thousands of children, to escape the bombing. Exiled to a school that rivaled Dickens's grimmest, fed on a steady diet of turnips and beetroots, tormented by a sadistic headmaster, and allowed home only once in four years, he felt desolate and abandoned.
When he returned to London in 1943 at the age of ten, he was a changed, withdrawn boy, one who desperately needed order to make sense of his life. He was sustained by his secret passions: for numbers, for metals, and for finding patterns in the world around him. Under the tutelage of his "chemical" uncle, Uncle Tungsten, Sacks began to experiment with "the stinks and bangs" that almost define a first entry into chemistry: tossing sodium off a bridge to see it take fire in the water below; producing billowing clouds of noxious-smelling chemicals in his home lab. As his interests spread to investigations of batteries and bulbs, vacuum tubes and photography, he discovered his first great scientific heroes, men and women whose genius lay in understanding the hidden order of things and disclosing the forces that sustain and support the tangible world. There was Humphry Davy, the boyish chemist who delighted in sending flaming globules of metal shooting across his lab; Marie Curie, whose heroic efforts in isolating radium would ultimately lead to the unlocking of the secrets of the atom; and Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the periodic table, whose pursuit of the classification of elements unfolds like a detective story.
Uncle Tungsten vividly evokes a time when virtual reality had not yet displaced a hands-on knowledge of the world. It draws us into a journey of discovery that reveals, through the enchantment and wonder of a childhood passion, the birth of an extraordinary and original mind. [via]More editions of Uncle Tungsten: Memories Of A Chemical Boyhood:
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The Wisdom Of Crowdsby James Surowiecki, Surowiecki, James (AFT)ISBN 0385721706 (0-385-72170-6)
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With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. [via]More editions of The Wisdom Of Crowds:
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nationsby James SurowieckiISBN 0385503865 (0-385-50386-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations'Book summary:No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.
Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which youre standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? Whats the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist?
The Wisdom of Crowds is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our world.More editions of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations:
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The Wondering Brain: Thinking About Religion With And Beyond Cognitive Neuroscienceby Kelly BulkeleyISBN 0415938414 (0-415-93841-4)
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