This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo…
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
- science
"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. The Beatles Anthology
By: The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
"I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps"-The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology
3. How We Decide
By: Jonah Lehrer
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
4. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more
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- music
- art
- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- science
5. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
By: Oliver Sacks , V.S. Ramachandran , Sandra Blakeslee
2.90
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- science
6. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
7. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchm… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
8. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
By: Charles R. Cross
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
"They drove to the parking lot of Garfield High School, where Jimi pointed to the windows on the building and told Carmen what classes were held there. The building had a pull that had him returning w…"-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
9. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitu… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
10. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
By: Sharon Begley , None
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of th… read more
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11. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
12. How the Mind Works
By: Steven Pinker
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, d… read more
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13. How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
By: John Powell
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitc… read more
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14. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
By: Norman Doidge
4.22
Format: 129 pages,
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more
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15. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By: Oliver Sacks
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a H… read more
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16. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
By: Steven Tyler
3.93
Format: None pages,
"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-… read more
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17. A Brief History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None
4.21
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more
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- science
"God abhors a naked singularity."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
18. The History of Jazz
By: Ted Gioia
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world, and it was born in one of the most colo… read more
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19. What to Listen for in Music
By: Alan Rich , Aaron Copland , William Schuman
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently, Aaron Copland raises two basi… read more
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20. Just Kids
By: Patti Smith
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
21. The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius (Time for a Rhyme)
By: Alex Ross
3.81
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘Th… read more
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- nonfiction
