This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank…
Shelve The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius (Time for a Rhyme)
The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order to understand written symbols. But how does th…
Shelve Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about …
Shelve Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human conditio…
Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing t…
In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his o…
Shelve Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Following up his 1996 "The Emotional Brain, " the world-renowned brain expert presents a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's sy…
Shelve Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Until the late 1980s it was believed that consciousness could not be investigated by objective experimentation, but today the quest for its biological basis is at the forefront of cognitive research. …
Shelve Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Since the dawn of the modern age, science's greatest contribution to the world has been its ability to unravel the mystery, to break down the inner working of the universe to its component parts: atom…
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He exp…
“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,…
Shelve How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. H…
Shelve The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventio…
Shelve The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used t…
Shelve Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
"Any readers whose love of music has somehow not led them to explore the technical side before will surely find the result a thoroughly accessible, and occasionally revelatory, primer."— Seattle Post-…
Shelve How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
In "The Mind's Eye", Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities:…
"A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are," writes Sean Wilsey, and indeed, Oh the Glory of it All is compelling proof of his exhaustive personal quest. It's no surprise t…
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen gevormd worden op een manier die bepalend is voor de rest van je leven. Dick Swaab volgt in Wij zijn…
Shelve Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clea…
Shelve This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery o…
Shelve The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
