What Makes Humans UniqueThe Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book chal...9780691148588Philip Lieberman
Princeton University Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Neural Origins Of Human EmotionWhat makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neur...9999903112747Jaak Panksepp Lucy Biven
W. W. Norton & Company
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
A New Theory of Intelligence"For all we hear of neuroscience's great advances, the field has generated more questions than answers. We know that the brain combines sensory input from all over your body into a...9999903112723Jeff Hawkins Richard Dawk...
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature"Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent questions, Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride through recent genetic...9999903112679Gabriel A. Dover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal MeaningIn this provocative and path-breaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of ...9999903112631Eric Maisel
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum ResurrectionA Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches....9999903112617Clifford A. Pickover
Thunder?s Mouth Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give YouFor some people, depression has been a part of their experience for so long that they've begun to believe it's what they are. They become experts at "doing" depression--hiding it, ...9999903112600Richard O'Connor Richard ...
Berkley
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
A History of Physics in the Twentieth CenturyAt the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only cons...9999903112587Helge Kragh Professor of ...
Princeton University Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
A Three-step Practice for Emotional Well-being Through Neuroscience and PsychologyIn a thoughtful and down-to-earth way, Timothy B. Stokes overturns old formulas--and many Freudian concepts--for achieving personal change. During one's lifetime, hidden memories, ...9999903112563Timothy B. Stokes
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1986.
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
How One Thing Leads to AnotherBall shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions--whe...9999903112358Philip Ball
London : Arrow, 2005.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Adventures in Community LivingIn 1972, at the height of the counter-culture movement, several hundred hippies drove their school buses into southern rural Tennessee and founded America's largest, modern-day int...9999903112495Rupert Fike
Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., c2002.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
'Engines of Creation is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically s...9999903112426K. Eric Drexler
Fourth Estate
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Surprising Insights Into How You ThinkIn this groundbreaking contribution to the literature of human personality, a celebrated psychologist and an award-winning author offer an exciting new way of thinking about our mi...9999903112389Stephen Michael Kosslyn G...
Simon & Schuster
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Relative to some other medical specialties, psychiatry is a new and still scientifically underdeveloped field - as a result practitioners can be influenced by attractive but unprov...9999903112372Joel Paris
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
How to Protect Yourself from Pill-Pushing Psychiatrists and Develop a Personal Plan for Optimal Mental HealthHave you ever sought professional help for an emotional problem and were shocked to find yourself diagnosed as mentally ill? Are you being pressured to take psychiatric medications...9999903112365Phillip Sinaikin Phillip ...
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Unifying CognitionThis book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet ...9999903112303Joaquin M. Fuster
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Why Psychiatric Treatments FailTowards the end of the twentieth century, a new approach to treating mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in focusing on madness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or im...9999903112280Richard P. Bentall
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Science Connecting Health and EmotionsA thrilling scientific detective story, The Balance Within tells how researchers finally uncovered the elusive mind-body connection and what it means for our health. Since ancient ...9999903112273Esther M. Sternberg
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1976.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Personal and Natural History of MelancholiaWinner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when his own clinical depressi...9999903112242Jeffery Smith
Faber & Faber
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The New Science of How We Connect with OthersWhat accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person ??s head ??to know what they ??re thinking and feeling? ??Mind reading ? is the very heart of what it means ...9999903112235Marco Iacoboni
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Way Through Addiction'This book could save your life' John Crace'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven'A rich, upl...9999903112211Barney Hoskyns
Corsair
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Evolutionary Psychology of WomenTheories of human evolution portray ancestral men as active individuals who shaped future generations by testosterone-driven competition, creating a critical gulf between reproduct...9999903112181Anne Campbell
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Lessons from a Life in ScienceWatson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as t...9999903112150James D. Watson
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug CultureAmerica had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substa...9999903112112Richard J. DeGrandpre
Duke University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
When More is Not EnoughDespite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, d...9999903112075Peter C. Whybrow
W. W. Norton & Company
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Life in Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has nev...9999903111887Henry Marsh
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
What is it that makes you distinct from me? Identity is a term much used but hard to define. For that very reason, it has long been a topic of fascination for philosophers but has ...9999903111849Susan Greenfield
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Nature and Meaning of PsychiatryOur Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom BurnsA lot is written about psychiatry and t...9999903112082Tom Burns
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of PsychosisAs the recovery research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and psychosis has lost nearly all credibility: -- After over 100 years ...9999903112068Paris Williams
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
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