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Guitar Zero
By Gary Marcus
Paperback
Published 24-May-2012
| RRP: | £12.99 |
| Our price: | £10.39 |
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A renowned neuroscientist with no musical talent investigates what it takes to make music
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Are We Getting Smarter?
By James R Flynn
Paperback
Published 02-Aug-2012
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Seeks to explain the 'Flynn effect' (massive IQ gains over time) and its consequences for gender, race and social equality.
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Incognito
By David Eagleman
Paperback
Published 26-Apr-2012
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A sparkling and provocative book on neuroscience.
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Overcoming Childhood Trauma
By Helen Kennerley
Paperback
Published 25-May-2000
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Helps sufferers to understand the links between past trauma and present difficulties. This book offers ways to gain control over these problems, allowing the individual to deal with intrusive memories, manage mood swings and build better relationships in adulthood.
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Touched with Fire
By Kay Redfield Jamison
Paperback
Published 02-Dec-1996
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Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.
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Thinking from A to Z
By Nigel Warburton
Paperback
Published 27-Jun-2007
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Helps those who want to argue well and think critically. Using topical examples, this book includes such entries as: Principle of Charity; Lawyer's Answer; Least Worst Option; Poisoning the Well; Sentimentality; Sunk Cost Fallacy; Weasel Words; and, 'You would say that wouldn't you'.
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Understanding The New Statistics
By Geoff Cumming
Paperback
Published 10-Aug-2011
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Guitar Zero
By Gary Marcus
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Gary Marcus had failed to learn the guitar before. Many times. Then, staring down his 40th birthday, he finally succeeded - using everything he knows about the brain.
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Mind So Rare
By Merlin Donald
Paperback
Published 07-Aug-2002
| RRP: | £15.99 |
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Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes a hybrid mind is an evolutionary advantage for humans and humanity.
This item is currently re-printing. You may still order this book and we will despatch it as soon as it becomes available.
Design of Everyday Things
By Donald A Norman
Paperback
Published 09-Sep-1998
| RRP: | £10.95 |
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A bestseller in the United States, this bible on the cognitive aspects of design contains examples of both good and bad design and simple rules that designers can use to improve the usability of objects as diverse as cars, computers, doors, and telephones.
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