What Can This Book Bring You?Happiness often feels fleeting — it comes quickly, disappears just as fast, and leaves us wondering why life can feel empty even when we seem to have so much.This book does not promise instant answers. Instead, it invites you onto a more authentic path: one that does not avoid unhappiness or dismiss pain, but treats them as messengers and entryways to depth. It shows that happiness is not a gift, but a skill that can be practiced. You don't need...

Book DescriptionThere are ultimately only two kinds of relationships we can have with habits: either we become their beneficiary, or we become their victim. The deciding factor does not lie in the habits themselves, but in whether the systematic nature of our self-awareness can be effectively executed.A habit is the active practice of repetition. It is not a life goal, but rather the means, the method, and the tool for achieving a goal. Habits can shape character, and chara...

About This BookThe Life of Our Brain is a neuroscience book written for people living in the present age—not a cold scientific text, but a deep dialogue with your own nervous system.Have you ever wondered, Why don't I do what I know I should do? Have you ever been startled awake in the deep of the night by your own thoughts, feeling your stomach tighten over a conversation that hasn't even happened yet? Have you ever felt unable to control your emotions, un...

**“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them**The human brain is ...

Essays that explore quirky, counterintuitive aspects of brain function and "make us realize that what goes on in our minds is nothing short of magical" (Scientific American).Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowledge o...

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolution...

The central concepts of the theory of interpersonal neurobiology.Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common “framework” where each of these important perspectives can be honored and integrated with one another has been created in which a person seeking their collective wisdom can find answers to some basic questions, such as, What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? How do we know things, how are ...

An exploration of how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your brain—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets—and comprehend their ...

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science.In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and builds on the latest research...

This is the second edition of this highly respected introduction to Medical Neurolinguistic Programming, which remains the official handbook of the Society for Medical NLP. Based on the work of Dr Richard Bandler, Medical NLP has developed to become a discipline in its own right, guided by Garner Thomson. Revised and updated throughout, significant new sections have been added on: priming, breathing, heart rate, sleep, relationships and cancer, and lifestyle diseases. This is a key resourc...

A pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behaviorDoes your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them. In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and m...

The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the spectacular t...