The Playmaker's Decisions: The Science of Clutch Plays, Mental Mistakes and Athlete Cognition (Peterson Daniel)(Paperback)

The Playmaker's Decisions: The Science of Clutch Plays, Mental Mistakes and Athlete Cognition (Peterson Daniel)(Paperback)

The Playmaker on any team makes the right decision at the right time, almost every time. Despite the constraints of time, tactics, and rules, the best players combine their vision and skills with razor-sharp decision accuracy for an unstoppable competitive advantage.As a follow-up to 'The

Cognition: The Thinking Animal (Willingham Daniel T.)(Paperback)

By describing experiments that control, manipulate and measure mental processes, this book shows how we can discover the answers to key questions about the mind, such as: 'Can we focus attention on more than one thing?' and 'Is language unique to humans?' Written in a down-to-earth narrative prose

Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign: The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation (Peterson Lawrence K.)(Paperback)

At the close of the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Georgia was ripe for invasion by Union forces. As Gen. Joseph E. Johnston continued to retreat farther south, consistently outflanked by Gen. William T. Sherman's divisions, Confederate president Jefferson Davis grew increasingly restless

Skewed to the Right: Sport, Mental Health and Vulnerability (Izycky Amy)(Paperback)

Understanding the psychology of the successful athlete through interviews with elite sportspeople. Features interviews with Kieren Emery, Mark Enright, Michelle Bergstrand, Luke Stoltman, Graeme Fowler, Nigel Owens, Jack Rutter, Ruth Walczak, and Baroness Tanni

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Siegel Daniel J.)(Paperback)

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of 'mindsight,' the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life. Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence - Is there a memory that torments you,

Mindsight - Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness (Siegel Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of 'mindsight' - the human capacity for empathy and

The Embodied Mind, Revised Edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Varela Francisco J.)(Paperback)

A new edition of a classic work that originated the 'embodied cognition' movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the 'embodied cognition' approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the

Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Burton Elise K.)(Paperback)

The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history-as a cradle of civilizations and

The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Schwartz Jeffrey M.)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind-and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of

Numerical Cognition (Knops Andre)(Paperback)

Numerical Cognition: The Basics provides an understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that enable us to perceive, process, and memorize numerical information. Starting from basic numerical competencies that humans share with other species, the book explores the mental coding of numbers

Pleasures of Small Motions: Mastering the Mental Game of Pocket Billiards (Fancher Bob)(Paperback)

A psychotherapist and pool columnist breaks new ground by applying good science to the mental game of billiards and gives invaluable insight on competitive

Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion (Nunez Rafael)(Paperback)

Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained using models derived from AI and computational theory. The

Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Aschwanden Christie)(Paperback)

Acclaimed science journalist Christie Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through the latest science on sports and fitness recovery. She investigates claims about sports drinks, chocolate milk, and 'recovery' beer; examines the latest recovery trends; and even tests

Exercised - The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health (Lieberman Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (Kaufman Allison B.)(Paperback)

This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think, remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantitative

Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always (O'Farrell John)(Paperback / softback)

Informs and elucidates the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since

Project Decisions, 2nd Edition: The Art and Science (Virine Lev)(Paperback)

This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders. Project management requires you to navigate a maze of multiple and complex decisions that are an everyday part of the job

Development of the Youth Athlete (Armstrong Neil)(Paperback)

Development of the Youth Athlete offers a single-authored, well-illustrated, evidence-based, and integrated analysis of the development and trainability of the morphological and physiological characteristics which influence sport performance in youth. The book critically analyses the development of

Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health (Hubbard L. Ron)(Paperback / softback)

Describes the human mind. This book presents the anatomy and full description of the reactive mind, the previously unknown source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and insecurities which enslave Man. It shows you how to get rid of it, and so achieve something Man has previously only dreamed

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (Loxton Daniel)(Paperback)

Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & the Plough and the Stars (O'Casey Sean)(Paperback)

The classic plays of the quintessential Dublin playwrightThree early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but,

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health (Eghigian Greg)(Paperback)

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America as well as Europe and North America, drawing together the

Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences (Brooks Daniel S.)(Paperback)

Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences. This volume examines the idea of levels of organization as a distinct object of investigation, considering its merits as a core organizational principle for

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Levitin Daniel J.)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than