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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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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"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
"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. 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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3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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4. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
By: Eric R. Kandel
4.29
Format: 480 pages,
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5. 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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6. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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7. 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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- brain
- nonfiction
- science
8. 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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9. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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10. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsiv… read more
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11. 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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12. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
By: Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1… read more
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13. Hallucinations
By: Oliver Sacks
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty hou… read more
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14. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
By: David Eagleman
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's … read more
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20. The Mind's Eye
By: Oliver Sacks
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about… read more
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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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