 | Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noe
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $14.02 Added 08/20/2009
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 | Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of the Mind) by Andy Clark
Buy new: $28.19 / Used from: $28.01 Added 08/20/2009
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 | The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia- the Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease by Andrew Koob
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $14.97 Added 08/20/2009
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 | Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books) by Paul W. Glimcher
Buy new: $16.13 / Used from: $16.88 "Glimcher does extraordinary neuroscience and relates it to the most fundamental of all questions: how the brain makes decisions. His use of game theory to characterize decision making in both humans and monkeys under conditions of strategic conflict is unique."
--Michael S. Gazzaniga
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 | Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $5.25 Description: "In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature."
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 | How the Body Shapes the Mind by Shaun Gallagher
Buy new: $26.34 / Used from: $19.19 The book description suggests: '...an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology.'
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 | Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $20.94 |
 | Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $5.00 Truly interdisciplinary. Lehrer writes for Seed Magazine and maintains the blog The Frontal Cortex at http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
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 | The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience by Steven Rose
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $2.15 The book description suggests: 'British neuroscientist Rose, a specialist on memory and an able popular-science writer, discusses the technologies for altering the brain that are apt to appear in the next two decades.'
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 | The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love by Richard Restak M.D.
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $7.94 Haven't read this yet but a video of Restak discussing the book is at http://fora.tv/2006/11/04/Naked_Brain
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 | This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.83 Just added 1/3/07 MB: less about case studies than the Sacks book and more about how the brain processes music. Levitin is a musician/sound engineer turned neuroscientist.
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 | The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God by David J. Linden
Buy new: $20.76 / Used from: $7.71 Just added 1/3/07 MB: apparently a well-written and at times humorous survey of brain mechanisms involved in...well the subtitle is, "How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God". Linden has credentials as a neuroscientist so it is not too light.
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 | The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $6.84 Just added 1/3/07
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 | Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $7.74 Added 12/21/08
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 | Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books) by Edwin Hutchins
Buy new: $24.52 / Used from: $19.99 |
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