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![The Future of the Mind [The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-future-of-the-mind-the-scientific-quest-to-understand-en_475669.jpg)
Другие научные, Психология
The Future of the Mind [The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind]
The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.
For the first time in history, the secrets of the...
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The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision
In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to...
The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples—from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares—this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity,...
If you have ever wondered why women always bite your head off or why one guy gets all the girls, if you have ever pondered why some men bring you balloons while others leave you their genitals, then Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is the...
Другие научные, Физика
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.
One hundred years...
![The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons [The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-tale-of-the-dueling-neurosurgeons-the-history-of-the-hum_475597.jpg)
Другие научные, История
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons [The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery]
Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike-strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidents-and see how the victim coped. In many cases survival was miraculous, and...
For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be...
In the tradition of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, popular psychologist Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals the astonishing new science of why we choke under pressure. She explains what happens in the body and mind...
An exploration of the terrifying threats to our world that fill today’s headlines: from global warming epidemic to the threat of nuclear weapons and the risk posed by the leading edge devices like the Large Hadron Collider. Armageddon Science by...