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Geert Hofstede
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Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand co-operation for the solution of these
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Kary B. Mullis
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Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, a chemical procedure that allows scientists to "see" the structures of the molecules of genes. Mullis is no shy, socially inept bench chemist, though; on the contrary, he
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Huston Smith
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How to transcend materialistic psychology and science. Updated edition. more]
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Marvin L. Minsky
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For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of t
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Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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In Figments of Reality, mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen's thesis (or schtick) is that human minds are produced by complicity between human brains and culture. In their earlier book
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Joe McMoneagle
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From one of the actual participants in the U.S. government's remote-viewing program comes the definitive work on remote viewing. Avoiding the snare of becoming a neo-Nostradamian prophecy, Mind Trek is a nuts-and-bolts approach to an ability that
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George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
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George Lakoff and Mark Johnson take on the daunting task of rebuilding Western philosophy in alignment with three fundamental lessons from cognitive science: The mind is inherently embodied, thought is mostly unconscious, and abstract concepts are largel
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scienti
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Robert Coles
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Robert Coles employs a gestalt method for describing contemporary spirituality in The Secular Mind, a memoirish meditation on the replacement of religion by science as the determining force of Western intellectual culture. The book offers a wide r
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Julian Jaynes
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Fourteen years after its original publication this book remains as astounding and controversial as ever. At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution, but came into being as recen
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Rita Carter, Christopher Frith
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In the last decades of the 20th century, scientists have come to believe that the human brain is almost completely modular. Every bit of the brain does something in particular, and surprisingly specific abilities, memories, and responses are in localized
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Hofstadter's bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays has been reissued to coincide with the paperback release of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. "Reading Metamagical Themas is perhaps the closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage t
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Mona Lisa Schulz, Christiane Northrup (Foreword)
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"I wish I could say that I learned the connection between memories, dreams, intuition, and healing in a college course or better yet divine inspiration," writes psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mona Lisa Schulz in her introduction. But, like man
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Rudy Rucker
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In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Here Rucker acquaint
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Edward De Bono
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Thinking is a skill that can be developed and improved if one knows how. An internationally known bestseller, this audio encourages the habit of lateral thinking to generate new ideas. Learn special techniques to accomplish this. Whether in a group or al
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Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks calls Temple Grandin's first book--and the first picture of autism from the inside--"quite extraordinary, unprecedented and, in a way, unthinkable." Sacks told part of her story in his
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Terrence W. Deacon
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Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? Thus begin
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Evolving Brains John Morgan Allman
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What's the big deal about big brains? They're a costly enhancement, says neurobiologist John Allman in Evolving Brains. "Animals with big brains are rare," he stresses. "If brains enable animals to adapt to changing environments, why is it that so
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Success, Your Style!: Right-And-Left-Brain Techniques for Learning Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Left Brain, Right Brain: Perpectives from Cognitive Neuroscience Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Using the Whole Brain: Integrating the Right and Left Brain With Hemi-Sync Sound Patterns Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Left Brain-Right Brain Differences: Inquires, Evidence, and New Approaches Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Left Brain, Right Brain: Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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How to Develop a Goal Mind: Using Left and Right Brain Functions to Achieve Your Goals Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Free Flight: Celebrating Your Right Brain Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Primate Laterality Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Mechanisms of Brain Lateralization Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Primate Laterality: Current Behavioral Evidence of Primate Asymmetries Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Cerebral dominance and its relation to psychological function Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Alphabet and the Brain: The Lateralization of Writing Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Left Side, Right Side: A Review of Laterality Research Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Cerebral Laterality: Theory and Research: The Toledo Symposium Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Brain Lateralization in Children: Developmental Implications Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Hemispheric Specialisation in Animals and Humans: A Special Issue of Laterality Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Lateral Asymmetries and Hemispheric Specialization: Theoretical Models and Research Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Hemispheric Specialisation in Animals and Humans: A Special Issue of Laterality Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Cerebral Laterality
Each brain hemisphere is specialized for various related cognitive functions, notably language in the left hemisphere and face recognition in the right.