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Brainchildren - Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Can machines think? Do animals have beliefs? These questions & many others are answered in this new collection of Dennett's essays from 1984 to 1996. He details variously with philosophy of mind, Artificial Intelligence, ethology & animal psychology.
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"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 ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An explanation of the various mysteries of pleasure in the workings of the mind. The book shows how different experiences give rise to similar sensations in the mind - such as sport, raves, or orgasm; explores the workings of recreational drugs; and explains the neurological character of pleasure. ...Show more
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