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Daniel C. Dennett A new theory of consciousness based on thoeries from the fields of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. | Steven Pinker Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do fools fall in love? Why do people believe in ghosts? How do we recognize a face? This title explores every... |
Sigmund Freud; James Conant One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a... | Gilbert Ryle; Daniel C. Dennett Lets us re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. This book features a classic example of philosophy. |
Rita Carter 'One of the clearest and best-illustrated attempts to explain the virtually inaccessible, the brain' SUNDAY TIMES | Daniel J. Levitin Explains how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, this work reveals the role of... |
Donald Antrim Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group... | Sebastian Barry Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over... |
Kevin Dutton Flipnosis is a special kind of persuasion. It has an incubation period of just seconds, and can instantly disarm even the most discerning mind. Flipnosis is black-belt mind control. It... | V. S. Ramachandran; Sandra Blakeslee;... 'Phantoms in The Brain' takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world's leading experimental neurologists. |
Siri Hustvedt By the bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED, an intimate and enlightening account of her search for the key to her mysterious nervous disorder, which brilliantly illuminates the connection between... | Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode, and despite a happy marriage and successful scientific career, he could think only of suicide. When he recovered, he wrote this book, an... |
Sebastian Faulks Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when this story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the... | Maryanne Wolf Explores how our brains learnt to read. This work presents a discussion ranging from the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is... |
Francois Lelord; Lorenza Garcia Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. | Richard Powers On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to... |