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The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes -- the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more s ...Show more
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done by David Badre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions--and how this shapes our everyday lives Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly fix th ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
$34.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
Body Keeps the Score: Mind Brain & Body by Bessel van der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
The Right-Brain Workout 2 by Russel Howcroft
$19.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Are you out of ideas? Feel your creativity drying up? Is brain fog taking over your life? Give your right brain a workout with the experts. In just ten weeks, you can reignite your imagination and tap into the creative potential inside you. Following on from the highly successful Right-brain Workout ...Show more
Blueprint - How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict o ...Show more
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
$35.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or t ...Show more
Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman and Elizabeth M. Karle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Reading Level: General Adult
Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research. I ...Show more
Head Case by Cole Cohen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-six-year-old Cole Cohen submitted herself to a battery of tests. For as long as she could remember, she'd struggled with a series of learning disabilities that made it nearly impossible to judge time and space-standing at a cro ...Show more
Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual difference ...Show more
Am I Dreaming? by James Kingsland
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them
Unlocking the Emotional Brain - Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation by Bruce Ecker; Robin Ticic; Laurel Hulley
$54.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Psychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical knowledge and brain science. In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic and Hulley equip re ...Show more