Wayfinding: How We Find – and Lose – our Way by Michael Bond
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A full-scale investigation of the controversial and often misunderstood science of attachment theory, inspired by the author’s own experience as a parent and daughter. When award-winning editor, writer, researcher, and longtime Zen student Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter, Azalea, she felt lik ...Show more
The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Time by W. Keith Campbell; Carolyn Crist
$44.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Cut Through the Noise Around Narcissism with the Leading Researcher in the Field"Narcissism" is truly one of the most important words our time--ceaselessly discussed in the media, the subject of millions of online search queries, and at the centerpiece of serious social and political debates. But what d ...Show more
Fully Human: A New Way of Using Your Mind by Steve Biddulph
$34.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A mother of small children avoids a murderer in broad daylight. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. And it saves his marriage. What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening thos ...Show more
Remember - The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice. Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of t ...Show more
Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind by Caroline Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection and discover how just a little bit of movement could shift your own head to a better place. Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? Tha ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and ...Show more
The Self-Assembling Brain - How Neural Networks Grow Smarter by Peter Robin Hiesinger
$44.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence strive to achieve this through technology. The ...Show more
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless versus the Rest of Us by Martha Stout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
WHO IS THE DEVIL YOU KNOW? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own? In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just ...Show more
Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth by Rebecca Schwarzlose
$34.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A trailblazing journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action all depend on 'maps' etched into your gray matter - and how technology can use these maps to read your mind. Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schem ...Show more
Brains Explained: How They Work & Why They Work That Way | STEM Learningabout the Human Brain | Fun and Educational Facts about Human Body by PhD Alison Caldwell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Curious about how billions of neurons make up your consciousness? How anxiety hijacks your body? Why Freud was such a weirdo? Whether AI will replace your therapist? This witty, enlightening book, written by a brilliant neuroscientist and clinical therapist duo, uncovers the stunningly-intricate univers ...Show more
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.