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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHow the Mind Works
Steven Pinker · 661 pages
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - Spectator "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
Michael S. Gazzaniga · 352 pages
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pinpoint the change that
The Male Brain
Louann Brizendine · 271 pages
The Synaptic Self: How Our Brain Becomes Who We Are
Joseph E. Ledoux
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
Michael Pollan · 320 pages
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin · 321 pages
This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Gary F. Marcus · 224 pages
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
Patricia S. Churchland · 273 pages
"What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain."--Jacket.
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman · 346 pages
"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jenni
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright · 496 pages
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior
Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang · 248 pages
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Maryanne Wolf · 320 pages
In the Book. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper Perennial, 2008. This is an account of how our brains change as we learn to read.
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
Michael O'Shea · 140 pages
Making Up the Mind
Chris Frith · 234 pages
"Making up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Using evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments, and studies with patients, Chris Frith, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, explores the relationship between the mind and the brain."--Jacket.
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Virginia Morell · 291 pages
This book explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or an elephant? Do they experience thoughts that are similar to ours, or have feelings of grief and love? These are tough questions, but scientists are
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam · 324 pages
**An intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder** Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history, and personal memoir, David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
Robert Trivers · 406 pages
Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
Dean Buonomano · 320 pages
Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
Susan Blackmore · 554 pages
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Cordelia Fine · 320 pages
Subtitle: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, the author criticizes claims about innate biological differences between men and women's minds as being faulty and exaggerated and considers how cultural and societal beliefs contribute to sex differences. Cornelia Fine is an academic psychologist.