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  • Consciousness

    How Our Brains Turn Matter into Meaning

    What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from - can these really be the product of nerve impulses in the brain? And is the human mind radically different from that of other species, or is our uniqueness more superficial than real?In this book, Oxford biologist John Parrington proposes a radical new theory of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind Shift

    How culture transformed the human brain

    John 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 art, music, and literature; built bridges and cathedrals; enabled us to probe distant galaxies, and to ponder the meaning of our existence. When our ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cognitive Science

    A Primer

    This primer provides a foundation in the main principles of cognitive science, offering a holistic account of what science reveals about the material basis of both animal and human consciousness. The book discusses in detail how neurons and glial cells (the two main types of cells in the brain) work together to generate cognitive function, while also drawing on insights from neuroscience, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Deeper Genome

    Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye

    Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way. For a start, we turned out to have far fewer genes than originally thought - just over 20,000, the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Deeper Genome

    Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye

    Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way. For a start, we turned out to have far fewer genes than originally thought -- just over 20,000, the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Comparative Genomics and Proteomics in Drug Discovery

    Vol 58

    Edited by John Parrington, Kevin Coward ...
    Comparative Genomics and Proteomics in Drug Discovery gives an overview of how emerging genomic and proteomic technologies are making significant contributions to global drug discovery programs, and in particular the key role that comparative genomics and proteomics play within this strategy. Each chapter is written by respected authorities, with hands-on experience, from both academic and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Redesigning Life

    How genome editing will transform the world

    Since the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximise agricultural production and cater to our taste in pets. The observation of the creation of artificial animal and plant variants was a key stimulant for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The ability to directly engineer the genomes of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Consciousness

    How Our Brains Turn Matter Into Meaning

    Narrated by Nicholas Boulton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from - can these really be the product of nerve impulses in the brain? And is the human mind radically different from that of other species, or is our uniqueness more superficial than real?In this audiobook, Oxford biologist John Parrington proposes a radical new theory ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mind Shift

    How Culture Transformed the Human Brain

    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 21 min

    The mental capacities of the human mind far outstrip those of other animals. Our imaginations and creativity have produced art, music, and literature; built bridges and cathedrals; enabled us to probe distant galaxies, and to ponder the meaning of our existence. When our minds become disordered, they can also take us to the depths of despair. What makes the human brain unique, and able to generate ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

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    "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our ... Read more

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    A Thousand Brains

    A New Theory of Intelligence

    by Jeff Hawkins ...
    Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Jamie Renell ...

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    A "fascinating book" that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI (Financial Times)For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world—not just one model, but hundreds of ... Read more

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  • The Agile Gene

    How Nature Turns on Nurture

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver SacksArmed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roles of genes and environment in shaping human behavior ... Read more

    $9.99 USD