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“stephen macknik”

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  • Sleights of Mind

    What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

    by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee ...
    "This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield—it will also change the way you think about the mind." —Jonah Lehrer, New York Times–bestselling authorStephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Champions of Illusion

    The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles

    by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik ...
    A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind them."[An] entertaining compilation . . . Readers will find the visual puzzles positively addictive." — Physics Today"Fascinating." ―Mental FlossIn Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from thei... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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    Sleights of Mind

    What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

    by Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time, even when you know full well that you are being ... Read more

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    The Book of Minds

    How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

    by Philip Ball ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 5 min

    Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Exquisite Machine

    The New Science of the Heart

    by Sian Harding ...
    Narrated by Polly Lee ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day—if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decadesof effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart’s perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite ... Read more

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    Consciousness Instinct, The

    Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

    by Michael S. Gazzaniga ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    “The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow do neurons turn into minds? How does physical “stuff”―atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells―create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Success Is a Numbers Game

    Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds

    by Kyle Austin Young ...
    Narrated by Kyle Austin Young ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    For fans of James Clear, Nassim Taleb, and Malcolm Gladwell: Stop being someone who could succeed and become someone who predictably should succeed by using a revolutionary “probability hacking” framework to increase your odds of success.Every goal that you’re pursuing has two hidden numbers attached to it—a probability of success and a probability of failure. Whether you’re trying to start a ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    The Deep Learning Revolution

    by Terrence J. Sejnowski ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    How deep learning–from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants–is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks ... Read more

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    How the World Sees You

    Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

    by Sally Hogshead ...
    Narrated by Sally Hogshead, Erik Bergmann ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself.Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, copywriting, and branding, and was one of the most awarded advertising copywriters right from start of career, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Perception

    How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

    by Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer ...
    Narrated by Angela Dawe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Character

    The History of a Cultural Obsession

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    Narrated by Pamela Almand ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 28 min

    A spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday lifeWhat is “character”? How can it be measured, developed, or built? Are character traits fixed or changeable? Is character innate, or can it be taught?Since Aristotle’s Poetics, philosophers, moralists, artists, and scientists have engaged with the ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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    Evolutions

    Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

    by Oren Harman ...
    Narrated by Oren Harman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific ... Read more

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