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The Idea of the Brain
- A History
- By: Matthew Cobb
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe. Today we tend to picture the brain as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the brain's deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge.
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Stunning overview and history of neuroscience
- By Coolade on 10-04-20
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The Idea of the Brain
- A History
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- By: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Read this?
- By S. O'NEILL on 24-06-10
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-08-08
- Language: English
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- By: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly everyone swears - whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.
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Great book well done!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-12-25
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how...
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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Gender and Our Brains
- How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
- By: Gina Rippon
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about...
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Gender and Our Brains
- How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Transcendent Brain
- Spirituality in the Age of Science
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality? Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity...
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The Transcendent Brain
- Spirituality in the Age of Science
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 14-03-23
- Language: English
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Quirk
- Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
- By: Hannah Holmes
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our...
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Of Mice and Men
- By TAG on 08-02-18
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Quirk
- Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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