Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Mitchell Kevin J.)(Pevná vazba)

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Mitchell Kevin J.)(Pevná vazba)

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual

Science of Fate - The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Pevná vazba)

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and

Connectome - How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (Seung Sebastian)(Paperback / softback)

What really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. It reveals the secrets of the brain, showing how our connectome makes each of us uniquely

The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired (Siegel Daniel J.)(Pevná vazba)

Parenting isn't easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood.'There is parenting magic in this book.'--Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of the

Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Vidal Fernando)(Pevná vazba)

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that 'we are our brains,' which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a 'neural turn,' in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as

The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape Our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Paperback)

So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is

The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable (Herculano-Houzel Suzana)(Paperback)

Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body

The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired (Siegel Daniel J.)(Paperback)

Parenting isn't easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood.'There is parenting magic in this book.'--Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of the

Power of Showing Up - how parental presence shapes who our kids become and how their brains get wired (Siegel Daniel J. MD)(Paperback / softback)

Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space (Prickett Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett, who was a world authority on Romanticism, presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves - and how we have created and written about them - from the Old Testament to social media. What

Neuropolis - A Brain Science Survival Guide (Newman Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read our minds? Based on Rob Newman's live stand-up show and new BBC Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain science upside

Follow Your Stuff: Who Makes It, Where Does It Come From, How Does It Get to You? (Sylvester Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

Our cellphones, our clothes, our food: All are everyday things we consider essential, but we seldom think of what and who is involved in making them and getting them into our hands. In Follow Your Stuff, award-winning children's author Kevin Sylvester and business professor Michael Hlinka team up

The Developing Mind, Third Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Siegel Daniel J.)(Pevná vazba)

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development and resilience. Daniel J. Siegel synthesizes

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (Simler Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt (Aral Sinan)(Pevná vazba)

A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond 'The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral's three

Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Vidal Fernando)(Paperback)

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that 'we are our brains,' which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a 'neural turn,' in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as

We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves (Cheney-Lippold John)(Pevná vazba)

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist itAlgorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we

Nine Rules to Conquer Death (Toolis Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought. Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over what the future holds. The virus. The stab of doubt in every lump beneath the skin. Can anyone

Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe (Mercier Hugo)(Pevná vazba)

Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe--and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass

Fashion, Culture, and Identity (Davis Fred)(Paperback)

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be 'in fashion' universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis

Edible: 70 Sustainable Plants That Are Changing How We Eat - Kevin Hobbs, Artur Cisar-Erlach

An illustrated celebration of sustainable and often little-known edible plants from around the world that are revolutionizing how we grow, eat and appreciate food. Plants that can thrive under the most challenging of conditions are becoming ever more important in ensuring food security in our

Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Storey Benjamin)(Pevná vazba)

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change--even if it means undermining the foundations

The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds (Humphries Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Parr Joy)(Paperback)

Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past