Brain Rules : 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
$34.95 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
See how the brain works while using it in the process of reading this book! Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like that physical activity boosts your brain power.How do we ...Show more
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
$22.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a detective of the highest order, and can we harness his genius? In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova shows us how we can all channel Holmes's famous po ...Show more
Brain School by Howard Eaton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
In Brain School, Howard Eaton explores how, applying the principles of neuroplasticitiy, Barbara Arrowsmith Young developed cognitive remediation exercises, founded the Arrowsmith Program and opened the first Arrowsmith School in Toronto, Ontario over 30 years ago. Mr. Eaton then discusses how difficult ...Show more
How We Feel by Giovanni Frazzetto
$35.00 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt? How can reading Heidegger, or conducting experiments on rats, help us to cope with anxiety in the face of the world's economic crisis? Can ancient remedies fight sadness more effectively than anti-depre ...Show more
The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled ...Show more
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
$29.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
What is it that separates Sherlock Holmes from his long-suffering friend and side-kick Dr John Watson? What makes Holmes such a superior detective, able to piece together clues and solve problems that seem elementary to Watson only in hindsight? And can we - most of us Watsons ourselves - ever harness a ...Show more
Why People Believe Weird Things by Shermer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
The publisher of Skeptic magazine argues that the search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment often results in the embracing of extraordinary claims and controversial ideas, discussing a variety of pseudoscientific ideas and superstitions that promote spiritual beliefs.
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
A look at the emotional side of medicine-the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life's most challenging moments. But doctors' emoti ...Show more
Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch; Lisa Schwartz; Steve Woloshin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
A complex web of factors has created the phenomenon of overdiagnosis: the popular media promotes fear of disease and perpetuates the myth that early, aggressive treatment is always best; in an attempt to avoid lawsuits, doctors have begun to leave no test undone, no abnormality overlooked; and profits a ...Show more
Believing Brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
$44.99 AUD
Category: Medical and Nursing
In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer ...Show more
SYMPHONY IN THE BRAIN by Jim Robbins
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Category: Medical and Nursing
Imagine a procedure versatile enough to treat epilepsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, addictions, and depression with no drugs or side effects; to bring patients out of vegetative states; and to improve everything from golf scores to opera singers' voices. These are only some of the claims made fo ...Show more