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The Shape of Love

How Two Minds Build a Single Landscape

by Scott E Johnson ...

How does a conversation that ran a little long become a shared life?Someone remembers what mattered to you last week. You risk saying something true, and it is welcome. Years later, the two of you can finish each other's sentences. Somewhere in between, love took a shape. This book shows you how to read it.The Shape of Love follows three everyday processes: showing up, opening, and what builds ... Read more

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How does a conversation that ran a little long become a shared life?Someone remembers what mattered to you last week. You risk saying something true, and it is welcome. Years later, the two of you can finish each other's sentences. Somewhere in between, love took a shape. This book shows you how to read it.The Shape of Love follows three everyday processes: showing up, opening, and what builds
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Before There Were Gods

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Before There Were GodsChronosDragons have always been with us.Not the dragons we invented.The ones we misunderstood.Every culture remembers them.In medieval Europe, they became fire-breathing monsters guarding impossible treasures. In China they governed rivers, seasons, and good fortune. In Mesoamerica they watched over the harvest and the turning of the heavens. Elsewhere they became fairies, ... Read more

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Before There Were GodsChronosDragons have always been with us.Not the dragons we invented.The ones we misunderstood.Every culture remembers them.In medieval Europe, they became fire-breathing monsters guarding impossible treasures. In China they governed rivers, seasons, and good fortune. In Mesoamerica they watched over the harvest and the turning of the heavens. Elsewhere they became fairies,
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The Shape of Consciousness

How Finite Minds Filter a World Into Being

by Scott E Johnson ...

You have never met reality directly. You have only ever known the version your mind lets in: filtered, steadied, narrowed to what you can handle and what you cannot afford to ignore.That narrowing is what makes experience possible, and most of the time it runs quietly beneath awareness. But its grip can become impossible to ignore: the deep groove of an addiction that a person understands ... Read more

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You have never met reality directly. You have only ever known the version your mind lets in: filtered, steadied, narrowed to what you can handle and what you cannot afford to ignore.That narrowing is what makes experience possible, and most of the time it runs quietly beneath awareness. But its grip can become impossible to ignore: the deep groove of an addiction that a person understands
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Who's in Charge?

Free Will and the Science of the Brain

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"Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly ... Read more

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"Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly
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This Idea Must Die

Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

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Series Book 17 - Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a ... Read more

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The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a
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How We Learn

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

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**“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the ... Read more

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**“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the
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Montessori Today

A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood

by Paula Polk Lillard ...

Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by ... Read more

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Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by
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The Mind

Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness

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"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about ... Read more

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"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

by Dean Buonomano ...

“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings ?of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The AtlanticThe human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make ... Read more

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“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings ?of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The AtlanticThe human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make
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Why We Cooperate

by Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, Elizabeth S. Spelke ...

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Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist ... Read more

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Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist
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Cultural Evolution

How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture & Synthesize the Social Sciences

by Alex Mesoudi ...

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets ... Read more

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Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets
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Closing the Mind Gap

Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World

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We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace.We need to catch up. To make smarter decisions -- ... Read more

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We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace.We need to catch up. To make smarter decisions --
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