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  • Neuroplasticity

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training.”Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    Master the ideas central to understanding the human brain.In a series of 50 accessible essays, Mo Costandi introduces and explains all we know about the brain and how it works, outlining both long-standing theories and cutting-edge ideas.From the function of neurons and synaptic transmission, to the nervous system and personality, 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Body Am I

    The New Science of Self-Consciousness

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena.The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression, decorated with clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, tattoos, and piercings. But the body is more than that. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cognition Switch #6

    by Carl Zimmer, Alex O'Brien, Hayley Birch, Catherine de Lange, Moheb Costandi, Virginia Gewin, Emma Young, Samira Shackle, Kendall Powell ...
    Series Book 6 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #6: June 2019Featuring Ideas by:Alex O’Brien, Hayley Birch, Catherine de Lange, Carl Zimmer, Moheb Costandi, Virginia Gewin, Emma Young, Samira Shackle, and Kendall Powell ... Read more

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  • 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts.Outlining both long-standing theories - such as the function of neurons and synaptic transmission ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Body Am I

    The New Science of Self-Consciousness

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    Narrated by Ray Greenley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    The body is central to our sense of identity. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Neuroplasticity

    by Moheb Costandi ...
    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

    Unabridged

    3 hours 14 min

    Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self-improvement -- and has inspired countless Internet entrepreneurs who peddle dubious "brain training" games and apps. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

    by Professor Steve Ramirez ...
    A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the fieldAs a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where we can replace our negative memories with positive ones. In How to Change a Memory, Ramirez ... Read more

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    The Alchemy of Us

    How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

    by Ainissa Ramirez ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

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    In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose ... Read more

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    Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    Narrated by James Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    "Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, M.D.The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain that ... Read more

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    American Nightmare

    The History of Jim Crow

    by Jerrold M. Packard ...
    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as ... Read more

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    The Copernicus Complex

    Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

    by Caleb Scharf ...
    Narrated by Caleb Scharf ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope... ... Read more

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