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The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Centuryby Gerard Piel, Peter BradfordISBN 0465057551 (0-465-05755-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Atomic Dynamics in Liquidsby N.H. March, M. P. TosiISBN 0470151455 (0-470-15145-5)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Cultureby William BenzonISBN 0465015441 (0-465-01544-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture'Book summary:Why does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music's function in the very complexity of musical experience. Music demands that our symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, and emotional and communicative skills all work in close coordination--not only within our own heads but also with the heads (and bodies) of others. Music is at once deeply personal and highly social, highly disciplined yet open to emotional nuance and interpretation. It's precisely this coordination of different mental functions, Benzon argues, that underlies our deep need to create and participate in music. At once daring and scholarly, this remarkable book offers a sweeping vision of a vital, underappreciated force in our minds and our culture.[via]More editions of Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture:
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energyby Peter Huber, Mark P. MillsISBN 046503117X (0-465-03117-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Clinician's Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT With Children And Young Peopleby Paul StallardISBN 0470025085 (0-470-02508-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspaceby Lawrence LessigISBN 0465039138 (0-465-03913-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace'Book summary:"We, the Net People, in order to form a more perfect Transfer Protocol..." might be recited in future fifth-grade history classes, says attorney Lawrence Lessig. He turns the now-traditional view of the Internet as an uncontrollable, organic entity on its head, and explores the architecture and social systems that are changing every day and taming the frontier. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is his well-reasoned, undeniably cogent series of arguments for guiding the still-evolving regulatory processes, to ensure that we don't find ourselves stuck with a system that we find objectionable. As the former Communist-bloc countries found, a constitution is still one of our best guarantees against the dark side of chaos; and Lessig promotes a kind of document that accepts the inevitable regulatory authority of both government and commerce, while constraining them within values that we hold by consensus.
Lessig holds that those who shriek the loudest at the thought of interference in cyberdoings, especially at the hands of the government, are blind to the ever-increasing regulation of the Net (admittedly, without badges or guns) by businesses that find little opposition to their schemes from consumers, competitors, or cops. The Internet will be regulated, he says, and our window of opportunity to influence the design of those regulations narrows each day. How will we make the decisions that the Framers of our paper-and-ink Constitution couldn't foresee, much less resolve? Lessig proclaims that many of us will have to wake up fast and get to work before we lose the chance to draft a networked Bill of Rights. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Viewby David Klahr, John Gilbert WallaceISBN 0470151285 (0-470-15128-5)
Hardcover, L. Erlbaum Associates
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Cognitive Psychologyby Douglas L. MedinISBN 0470001712 (0-470-00171-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalismby Daniel BellISBN 0465097278 (0-465-09727-8)
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The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinityby Wyn WachhorstISBN 0465090575 (0-465-09057-5)
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Eco Homo: How the Human Being Emerged from the Cataclysmic History of the Earthby Noel Thomas BoazISBN 0465018033 (0-465-01803-3)
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Thingsby Donald NormanISBN 0465051367 (0-465-05136-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things'Book summary:Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, a fact fans of Don Norman's classic The Design of Everyday Things cannot afford to ignore.In recent years, the design community has focused on making products easier to use. But as Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating and important new book, design experts have vastly underestimated the role of emotion on our experience of everyday objects.Emotional Design analyzes the profound influence of this deceptively simple idea, from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects of tomorrow. In the future, will inanimate objects respond to human emotions? Is it possible to create emotional robots?Norman addresses these provocative questions--drawing on a wealth of examples and the latest scientific insights--in this bold exploration of the objects in our everyday world.[via]More editions of Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things:
Equalsby Adam PhillipsISBN 0465056806 (0-465-05680-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equals'Book summary:Adam Phillips's Equals attempts to relocate psychoanalysis as a natural part--and even a necessary part--of an engaged and unregimented life. Phillips is a politically aware writer. He is not a "party man" in any sense. But he has notions about democracy that inform, not just his view of psychoanalytic practice, but also his ideas about human freedom and happiness. Phillips reminds us that people suffer, not because they are in conflict with themselves, but because they have suppressed a conflict by imposing an unconscious authoritarian order over their thoughts and feelings.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to recreate emotional fluency. (One assumes the job of politics is to deal with the fallout.) Like democracy, psychoanalysis should recognise and legitimate conflict which an authoritarian (superegoistic) order would suppress. Drawing parallels between the idea of free association in democracy, and the practice of free association in psychoanalysis, Phillips writes: "hearing all those voices& may itself be a kind of happiness". Phillips's arguments are meticulous, and sometimes fussy. The general reader will find some passages obscure, but there is never the sense that Phillips is being deliberately obscurantist. His compassion--as a writer, as an analyst, and as a literary critic--is admirable. A child psychotherapist by training, his essay "Childhood Again" brings his strongest qualities together--ideological nous, close argument and compassion--in an entirely successful and memorable synthesis. --Simon Ings [via]
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The Essential Art Of Warby Sun-Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer, Mei-Chun Lee SawyerISBN 0465072046 (0-465-07204-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Art Of War'Book summary:Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The Essential Art of War brings Sun-tzu's classic work to a new, uninitiated readership. This clear and compact volume presumes no prior knowledge of the subject and presents only the material that is essential to understanding this text. Using his best-selling Art of War translation as the centerpiece, Sawyer has re-approached every chapter to include an introduction and closing commentary that deliver the key concepts. An introduction to the volume on the relevance of Sun-tzu's teachings, a chronology, historical background on the translation itself, and a bibliographic essay are also included. The Essential Art of War is presented in an attractive 208-page hardcover volume with foiled jacket, stamped case, and ribbon marker, in a convenient gift size.[via]More editions of The Essential Art Of War:
Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Projectby Christopher WillsISBN 0465021697 (0-465-02169-7)
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Five Day Course in Thinkingby Edward De BonoISBN 0465024491 (0-465-02449-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment/#1499748by Cyrus GordonISBN 046502484X (0-465-02484-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdomby Jonathan HaidtISBN 0465028020 (0-465-02802-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Infrared, the New Astronomyby David A. AllenISBN 0470023341 (0-470-02334-1)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Centuryby Howard GardnerISBN 0465026117 (0-465-02611-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century'Book summary:How would a musical genius like Mozart have performed on the SAT or GRE? Well enough to go to an Ivy League? Difficult to say, of course, but thank goodness Howard Gardner thought to ask the question: Can every sort of intelligence be measured with the tools we've been using for the past century and more? In his 1983 book, Frames of Mind, Gardner laid out the foundation for the theory of multiple intelligences (MI). In Intelligence Reframed, a revisitation and elaboration of MI theory, he details the modern history of intelligence and the development of MI, responds to the myths about multiple intelligences, and handles FAQs about the theory and its application. He also restates his ideal educational plan, which would emphasize deep understanding of iconic subjects following from a variety of instructional approaches. (His book The Disciplined Mind discusses this plan in more detail.) Most excitingly, Gardner discusses the possibility for three more intelligences. Of these, he endorses only one, the naturalist intelligence--a person's ability to identify plants and animals in the surrounding environment. He writes, "My recognition that such individuals could not readily be classified in terms of the seven antecedent intelligences led me to consider this additional form of intelligence and to construe the scope of the naturalist's abilities more broadly."
An absorbing read from cover to cover, Intelligence Reframed should be studied and discussed by teachers, administrators, policy makers, and all those eager to serve children and prepare them to lead fulfilling lives. --Brian J. Williamson [via]
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Interpretation of Schizophreniaby Silvano ArietiISBN 0465034292 (0-465-03429-2)
Hardcover, Pearson Learning
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Introductory Biophysicsby P.A. Speight, R. H. Stinson, Frederick Ross HallettISBN 0470151951 (0-470-15195-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brainby Israel RosenfieldISBN 0465035922 (0-465-03592-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Ipod & Itunes for Dummiesby Tony Bove, Cheryl RhodesISBN 0470048948 (0-470-04894-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicistby Victor WeisskopfISBN 0465036775 (0-465-03677-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist'Book summary:This autobiography looks at the life and times of Victor Weisskopf, a scientist at the forefront of particle physics research who became one of the early advocates of nuclear responsibility. This book chronicles his life, set against the backdrop of one of history's most fertile periods of scientific endeavour. Coming of age as a physicist in pre-war Europe, Victor Weisskopf worked with such scientific greats as Niels Bohr and Wolfgang Pauli. He made seminal contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, and elementary particle physics, and he worked on the most important scientific project of the day - the Manhatten Project. The story of Weisskopf is truly international, moving from the Vienna of his childhood through Copenhagen, Zurich and on to Cambridge and Los Alamos. At each stopping point, he recreates the scientific ambience of the place, giving the reader an exciting sense of the close-knit community that existed among the brilliant scientists with whom he worked. [via]
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Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Loseby Stephen H. SchneiderISBN 0465072798 (0-465-07279-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universeby John D. Barrow, Joseph SilkISBN 0465038972 (0-465-03897-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Letters to a Young Mathematicianby Ian StewartISBN 0465082327 (0-465-08232-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Life Processby J. A. V. ButlerISBN 0465039863 (0-465-03986-3)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapyby Irvin D. YalomISBN 0465042805 (0-465-04280-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy'Book summary:Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. 270pp. Previous owner's name on front end page. The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, the author provides aglimpse into their personal desires and motivations and his own struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. [via]
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Mathematical Methods in Science And Engineeringby S. Selcuk BayinISBN 0470041420 (0-470-04142-0)
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The Medicine of Erby Harlan Gibbs, Alan Duncan RossISBN 0465044735 (0-465-04473-5)
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Mind, Language and Society : Doing Philosophy in the Real Worldby John R. SearleISBN 0465045197 (0-465-04519-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real Worldby John R. SearleISBN 0465045219 (0-465-04521-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarterby Katherine EllisonISBN 0465019064 (0-465-01906-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter'Book summary:Generations of mothers have been toldand believedthat having a baby means checking their own brains at the delivery room door. The Mommy Brain usually refers to a head full of feeding times, soccer schedules, and nursery rhymes, at the expense of creative or challenging ideas. But recent scientific research paints a dramatically different and far rosier picture.Journalist Katherine Ellison draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to demonstrate that, contrary to long-established wisdom that having children dumbs you down, raising children may make moms smarter. From enhanced senses in pregnancy and early motherhood to the alertness and memory skills necessary to manage like a pro, to a greater aptitude for risk-taking and a talent for empathy and negotiation, these advantages not only help mothers in raising their children, but in their work and social lives as well.Filled with lively (and often hilarious) stories of multitasking moms at home and on the job, The Mommy Brain encourages all of us to cast aside conventional thinking and discover the positive ways in which having children changes mothers brains for the better.[via]More editions of The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter:
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Elseby Hernando DesotoISBN 0465016154 (0-465-01615-4)
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No, the real problem is that such countries have yet to establish and normalize the invisible network of laws that turns assets from "dead" into "liquid" capital. In the West, standardized laws allow us to mortgage a house to raise money for a new venture, permit the worth of a company to be broken up into so many publicly tradable stocks, and make it possible to govern and appraise property with agreed-upon rules that hold across neighborhoods, towns, or regions. This invisible infrastructure of "asset management"--so taken for granted in the West, even though it has only fully existed in the United States for the past 100 years--is the missing ingredient to success with capitalism, insists de Soto. But even though that link is primarily a legal one, he argues that the process of making it a normalized component of a society is more a political--or attitude-changing--challenge than anything else.
With a fleet of researchers, de Soto has sought out detailed evidence from struggling economies around the world to back up his claims. The result is a fascinating and solidly supported look at the one component that's holding much of the world back from developing healthy free markets. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligenceby Michael S. GazzanigaISBN 0465048633 (0-465-04863-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocideby Robert Jay LiftonISBN 0465049052 (0-465-04905-2)
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Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selectionby Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 0465049346 (0-465-04934-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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OUR FINAL HOUR: A Scientist's warning How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyondby Martin ReesISBN 0465068634 (0-465-06863-4)
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What happens here on Earth, in this century, could conceivably make the difference between a near eternity filled with ever more complex and subtle forms of life and one filled with nothing but base matter.
For many technological debacles, Rees places much of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the scientists who participate in perfecting environmental destruction, biological menaces, and ever-more powerful weapons. So is there any hope for humanity? Rees is vaguely optimistic on this point, offering solutions that would require a level of worldwide cooperation humans have yet to exhibit. If the daily news isn't enough to make you want to crawl under a rock, this book will do the trick. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Pattern of Expectation, 1644-2001by I.F. ClarkeISBN 0465054579 (0-465-05457-9)
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Pattern on the Stoneby Daniel HillisISBN 046502596X (0-465-02596-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pattern on the Stone'Book summary:Daniel Hillis has made a career of puzzling over the nature of information and the mechanisms that put information to use. Now, he's distilled his accumulated knowledge of computer science into The Pattern on the Stone, a glorious book that reveals the nature of logical machines simply and elegantly.
Millions of times each second, to the drumbeat of a clock signal, electronic computers compare digital values. These comparisons, and the actions taken in response to them, are what computers are all about at their lowest levels, and, with the help of this book, they're not hard to comprehend. Moving on from the nature of logical circuits, the author deconstructs software and the mechanisms it employs to solve problems.
Hillis then stands atop the building blocks he's arranged into a sturdy foundation and discusses the future of computing. Parallel processors already are in use, and neural networks with limited abilities to learn and adapt have proved quite good at certain jobs. Hillis explores the potential of both these technologies. Then, he throws some light on quantum computing and evolving systems--emerging ideas that promise to make computers much more powerful, and thereby change the world. --David Wall [via]
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Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Natureby Ray JackendoffISBN 0465054625 (0-465-05462-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Physics Of Vibrations And Wavesby John PainISBN 047001296X (0-470-01296-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilisby Deborah HaydenISBN 0465028829 (0-465-02882-9)
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The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Themby Owen FlanaganISBN 0465024610 (0-465-02461-0)
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The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentationby Robert Jay LiftonISBN 0465064213 (0-465-06421-3)
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The Psychology of Communicationby George A. MillerISBN 0465095283 (0-465-09528-3)
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Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universeby Lawrence KraussISBN 0465037402 (0-465-03740-2)
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Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousnessby Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 046506910X (0-465-06910-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness'Book summary:A genuine understanding of how mental states arise from the structure and function of the brain would be, as William James declared in 1892, the scientific achievement before which all past achievements would pale. Can a comprehensive biological theory of consciousness be constructed in 1990? Any attempt has to reconcile evidence garnered from such diverse fields as developmental and evolutionary biology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy.Having laid the groundwork in his critically acclaimed books Neural Darwinism (Basic Books, 1987) and Topobiology (Basic Books, 1988), Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman now proposes a comprehensive theory of consciousness in The Remembered Present. Integrating findings generated by the recent explosive growth in the neurosciences with current knowledge of anatomy, cell biology, and psychology, Edelman has been able to construct a detailed model of how we become aware of our own existence.In addition to providing a scientific account of brain function and consciousness, the theory advanced in The Remembered Present will have a significant impact on a wide variety of fields. It provides a new outlook that may prompt fundamental revisions in the way linguists view language, physicians classify mental diseases, and philosophers look at the mind-body problem.[via]More editions of Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness:
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The Republic of Platoby Plato, Allan David BloomISBN 0465069347 (0-465-06934-7)
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Return Of The Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killerby Susan Scott, Christopher DuncanISBN 0470090014 (0-470-09001-4)
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Schizophrenia and Manic-Depressive Disorder: The Biological Roots of Mental Illness As Revealed by the Landmark Study of Identical Twinsby E. Fuller TorreyISBN 0465072852 (0-465-07285-2)
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Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systemsby J. Davies, Paul Warren, Rudi StuderISBN 0470025964 (0-470-02596-4)
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Skull Warsby David ThomasISBN 046509225X (0-465-09225-X)
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The Social Brain: Discovering the Networks of the Mindby Michael GazzanigaISBN 0465078524 (0-465-07852-4)
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Sociology: A Biographical Approachby Peter L. Berger, Brigitte BergerISBN 0465079857 (0-465-07985-7)
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Sociology:a Biographical Approach: A Biographical Approachby Peter L. Berger, Brigitte BergerISBN 0465063462 (0-465-06346-2)
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Stuttering: A Life Bound Up in Wordsby Marty JezerISBN 0465081274 (0-465-08127-4)
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Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryologyby Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 0465086535 (0-465-08653-5)
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The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Selfby Alice Miller, Andrew JenkinsISBN 0465045855 (0-465-04585-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self'Book summary:More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving The Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers everywhere, and her book soon achieved cult status and became a backlist bestseller.In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller's vivid true stories reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller-a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson and other religion-driven psychologists. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.[via]More editions of The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self:
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Uncommon Groundsby Mark PendergrastISBN 0465054676 (0-465-05467-6)
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"A good cup of coffee can turn the worst day tolerable, can provide an all-important moment of contemplation, can rekindle a romance," he writes. "And yet, poetic as its taste may be, coffee's history is rife with controversy and politics." For example, coffee bankrolled Idi Amin's genocidal regime in Uganda and the Sandinistas' revolution in Nicaragua. Uncommon Grounds provides some fascinating tidbits. Did you know that coffeehouses helped spawn the French and American revolutions? Or that coffee supplanted alcohol as a favorite breakfast drink in Britain in the late 1600s, and later became a patriotic American beverage after the Boston Tea Party? Pendergrast also details the rise and fall of regional coffee brands in the United States, the role of advertising in the industry, the global economic impact of coffee prices, and the recent emergence of specialty-coffee retailers--Starbucks, for example. Finally, he explores the social and environmental ramifications of coffee and highlights recent attempts to encourage a livable wage and environmental protection in coffee-producing nations such as Brazil. Pendergrast also includes an appendix on "how to brew the perfect cup." This wide-ranging book is a good read for those curious about the history and context behind that morning cup of coffee, as well as for those strictly interested in the business side of the industry. --Dan Ring [via]
Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment that's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's are Only the First Victimsby Gary MatsumotoISBN 046504400X (0-465-04400-X)
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Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, And the Human Retrovirus a Story of Scientific Discoveryby Robert C. GalloISBN 0465098150 (0-465-09815-0)
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Was Einstein Right?: Putting General Relativity to the Testby Clifford M. WillisISBN 0465090877 (0-465-09087-7)
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A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Tableby Michael D. GordinISBN 046502775X (0-465-02775-X)
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Why Birds Sing: A Journey Through the Mystery of Bird Songby David RothenbergISBN 046507135X (0-465-07135-X)
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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysisby Richard WebsterISBN 0465091288 (0-465-09128-8)
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The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolutionby Christopher WillsISBN 0465091946 (0-465-09194-6)
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Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychologyby Aleksandr Romanovich LuriaISBN 046509208X (0-465-09208-X)
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