The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, Eagleman David, Brandt Anthony

Автор: Eagleman David
Название: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
ISBN: 0307377334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307377333
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2478.00 р.
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Описание: If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing? This is the question that David Eagleman--renowned neuroscientist and acclaimed author of Sum--answers in a book as accessible and entertaining as it is deeply informed by startling, up-to-the-minute research.
Our behavior, thoughts, and experiences are inseparably yoked to a vast, wet, electrochemical network called the nervous system. The machinery is utterly alien to us, and yet, somehow, it "is "us. In this dazzling journey, David Eagleman plumbs the depths of the brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why does the conscious mind know so little about itself? Why can your foot jump halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? What do Odysseus and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Why do strippers make more money at certain times of the month? Why are people whose name begins with J more likely to marry other people whose name begins with J? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret?
This mind-blowing voyage into the inner cosmos includes stopovers in mate-selection, synesthesia, beauty, free will, infidelity, artificial intelligence, visual illusions, dreams, and the future of criminal law. Throughout, Eagleman helps us understand how our perceptions of ourselves and our world result from the hidden workings of the most wondrous thing we have ever encountered: the human brain.

Автор: Eagleman David
Название: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
ISBN: 0307389936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307389930
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1559.00 р.
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Описание: At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives--each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

Автор: Brandt, Anthony
Название: Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt
ISBN: 0792293460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792293460
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The wide ranging adventures of outdoorsman, naturalist and U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, are collected in this anthology of African safaris, ranch life in the American West, and a peril filled trip down Brazil`s legendary River of Doubt.