This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Product Description 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. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: • [...]
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Product Description• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can’t shake?• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?• Do you ever wonder why you can’t stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?• Are you and your child [...]
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
ISBN13: 9781401927226 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description 4-CD set, Abridged Audio Book Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible [...]
Ayurveda: A Practical Guide: The Science of Self Healing
Country of origin: USA Please read all label information on delivery. Product DescriptionFor the first time a book is available which clearly explains the principles and practical applications of Ayurveda, the oldest healing system in the world. This beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains history & philosophy, basicprinciples, diagnostic techniques, treatment, diet, medicinal usage of kitchenherbs [...]
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
ISBN13: 9780307347312 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAn illuminating perspective on the science of meditation—and a handbook for transforming our minds, bodies, and lives In The Joy of Living, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche—the “happiest man in the world”—invites us to join him in unlocking the secrets to [...]
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
ISBN13: 9781594482694 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It’s the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage [...]
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
ISBN13: 9780393329377 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“A stunning book.”—Oliver Sacks Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science of mind. This science now provides nuanced insights [...]
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
ISBN13: 9780345479891 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by [...]
Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation
ISBN13: 9781582702384 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description In 1997, Dr. Richard Bartlett experienced an event that would redirect the entire course of his life. He suddenly discovered that by lightly touching his clients while at the same time applying focused intent, he could restore them to a physically, [...]
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
ISBN13: 9780312421700 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and [...]
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
ISBN13: 9780316113502 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function [...]
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
ISBN13: 9781400033461 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFor decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes [...]
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
ISBN13: 9780143113102 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAn astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the [...]
Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films
Product DescriptionAbout 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot [...]
Sugars That Heal: The New Healing Science of Glyconutrients
Identifies the eight essential glyconutrients Explores the link between glyconutrients and the immune system Authored by Dr. Emil Mondoa, a practicing pediatrician and founder of the Glyconutrients Research Foundation Product Description“Sugars that heal” it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s the key to one of the most important breakthroughs in recent medical science. [...]
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition
ISBN13: 9781607012146 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe first volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy features over a quarter million words of fiction by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, [...]
Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
ISBN13: 9780345439895 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionExplosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space–and on the frontiers of the human mind. Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have [...]
Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN13: 9781551807850 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description* Develop believable fantasy worlds * Challenge your readers’ imaginations * Practical techniques you can apply today * Written by a successful author of SF and fantasy novels Are you struggling to get started on your science fiction or fantasy novel? Stuck [...]
The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Personalities, Detecting Forgeries, and Revealing Brain Activity Through the Science of Graphology
ISBN13: 9781601630254 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“Marc Seifer new book The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis is one of the best written on the subject in the last 10 years!” –Dr. Robert O’Block, Founder, American College of Forensic Examiners “The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis is a must [...]
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Product DescriptionFor undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Science Fiction Literature. Organized thematically and chronologically, this one volume anthology and study of the last two hundred years of Science Fiction and Fantasy is unique in content and approach–featuring women and men authors of various ethnicities, and a range of both traditional canonical literature and popular culture. This text [...]
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology
ISBN13: 9781892391919 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionCollecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction. Including “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury’s lasting tale of what [...]
Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia
Product DescriptionScience fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, [...]
Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak
Product DescriptionAs the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre and more relevant. Voices of Vision offers a rare look into the inner workings of this realm and into the very thoughts and methods of those who make it [...]