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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses Maureen Seaberg 9781250272416
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €20.58In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about the... -
Letters by Oliver Sacks 9780451492913
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €32.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451492913Author Oliver SacksFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1072gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm... -
Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design by Sarah Robinson
Booksplease Price: €76.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533607Author Sarah RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm -
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To by Margee Kerr
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.49Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? By the cause - the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a... -
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis by Ann-Christine Duhaime
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.35A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can-and likely will-enable us to prioritize the long-term survival of humanity... -
Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World by Linden J. Ball 9780367703516
Booksplease Price: €54.11This unique textbook explores core cognitive psychology topics from an innovative new perspective, focusing on key real-world issues to show how we understand and experience the world. The book examines compelling topics such as creativity,... -
Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness by Moheb Costandi
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046596Author Moheb CostandiFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter by Peter Robin Hiesinger
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.65What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial... -
Love is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships Brian D. Earp (Research Fellow) 9781526145413
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.99What if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up?This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances... -
Why Does It Still Hurt?: how the power of knowledge can overcome chronic pain by Paul Biegler
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.39Almost half of adults in the UK suffer from chronic pain. Yet this is often unrelated to any physical injury. So why does it still hurt? Research over the last few decades shows that many of us are victims of a devilish trick of the nervous system: our... -
Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing by Douglas Van Praet 9781137278920
Booksplease Price: €15.37For too long marketers have been asking the wrong question. If consumers make decisions unconsciously, why do we persist in asking them directly through traditional marketing research why they do what they do? They simply can't tell us because they don't... -
Neurobiology For Dummies Frank Amthor 9781394266340
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €18.75An essential guide to help you demystify the complex topic of neurobiology and jump into this fascinating scientific field Neurobiology is a notoriously difficult subject, but Neurobiology For Dummies explains the essentials in terms anyone can... -
Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen 9780691173153
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.20Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the... -
The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs 9780691174082
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.99A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animalsThe Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading... -
Above the Line: Living and Leading with Heart by Stephen Klemich
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.31A leadership consultant and neuropsychologist identify the universal habits of the heart and mind-the keys to unlocking our true potential, creating our best selves and eliminating behavior patterns that hold us back. Why is it so hard for leaders to... -
Carpenter's Neurophysiology: A Conceptual Approach by Dunecan Massey
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.53Neurophysiology: A Conceptual Approach offers a refreshing alternative to 'learning by rote'. Under new authorship, the sixth edition preserves the legacy of the original author, the late Roger Carpenter, retaining the concise approach and readable style... -
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671657130Author MinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 763g -
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.92A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when... -
Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind by Nikolas Rose
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.04The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that... -
Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful by Henning Beck 9781771644013
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.64"[This] book will convince you that forgetting helps you remember and distractions can make you more creative." -Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of TED's WorkLife podcast"Illuminating, and a joy to... -
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223851Author Joseph LeDouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider 9780691216744
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.21A guide to AI's thorniest implications that asks: How shall we navigate our brave new world?We are at a monumental turning point in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The strongest human competitors in chess, go, and Jeopardy!... -
Runner's World The Runner's Brain: How to Think Smarter to Run Better Jeff Brown 9781623363475
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.48Runner's World's The Runner's Brain will show readers how to unlock and capture the miraculous potential of the body's most mysterious and intriguing organ and rewire their minds for a lifetime of athletic success. The book combines cutting-edge brain... -
It's Not Bloody Rocket Science: Life and Leadership Hacks via Neuroscience, Psychology and Common Sense - Second Edition: Life and Leadership Hacks via Neuroscience, Psychology and Common Sense - Second Edition by Dulcie Swanston 9781916085343
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916085343Author Dulcie SwanstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Top Right ThinkingPublisher Top Right ThinkingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm... -
Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates by Georg F. Striedter
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €130.55When did the first vertebrates emerge, and how did they differ from their invertebrate ancestors? When did vertebrates evolve jaws, paired fins, pattern vision, or a neocortex? How have evolutionary innovations such as these impacted vertebrate behavior... -
Towards Human-Level Artificial Intelligence: How neuroscience can inform the pursuit of artificial general intelligence or general AI Eitan Michael Azoff 9781032829074
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €50.00Is a computer simulation of a brain sufficient to make it intelligent? Do you need consciousness to have intelligence? Do you need to be alive to have consciousness? This book has a dual purpose. First, it provides a multi-disciplinary research survey... -
Why We Lie by David Livingstone Smith 9780312310400
Booksplease Price: €15.43Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since... -
The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage by Catherine Malabou
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €35.05This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as... -
Free Will: Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation by Uri Maoz
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.63What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of... -
Neuromania: On the limits of brain science by Paolo Legrenzi 9780199591343
Booksplease Price: €21.03Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge together with recent discoveries about how the human brain works. The mass media are... -
The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by Gregory Hickok 9780393089615
RRP: €44.63Booksplease Price: €38.81In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok re-examines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation-a pair of co-dependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a... -
The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul by Dr Jay Lombard 9780553418699
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553418699Author Dr. Jay LombardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Harnessing the Power of the Four Cognitive Modes by Stephen Kosslyn
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645118Author Stephen KosslynFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Brain, Mind and the Narrative Imagination by Professor Christopher Comer
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.86Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia - but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page? Rapid advances in the scientific understanding of... -
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 9781594202292
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781594202292Author Joshua FoerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher... -
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research challenges and solutions Jo Van Herwegen (Kingston University, UK) 9781848723290
Booksplease Price: €60.76Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself has become more sophisticated, using... -
Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and Make Better Decisions by Joel Pearson 9781801293051
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.54'Inspiring and deeply original - transforming abstract concepts into a practical guide'Ed Catmull, New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of PixarWe have all experienced a 'gut reaction' or acted 'on a hunch' - we've used our intuition.Until... -
The Brain: What Everyone Needs To Know (R) by Gary Lee Wenk
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.06What is the principle purpose of a brain? A simple question, but the answer has taken millennia for us to begin to understand. So critical for our everyday existence, the brain still remains somewhat a mystery. Gary L. Wenk takes us on a tour of what we... -
Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey by David E. Presti 9780393709605
RRP: €52.35Booksplease Price: €49.63A fresh take on contemporary brain science research, this book presents neuroscience-the scientific study of brain, mind and behaviour-in easy-to-understand ways with a focus on concepts of interest to all science readers.About the AuthorDavid E. Presti... -
Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain by John Parrington
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €26.53John Parrington argues that social interaction and culture have deeply shaped the exceptional nature of human consciousness. The mental capacities of the human mind far outstrip those of other animals. Our imaginations and creativity have produced...