Jacobs, A. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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Summary: "Suggests 15 prevention strategies for senior moments ranging from forgetting appointments to becoming disoriented"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: "Bestselling author and neuroscientist offers simple, scientifically proven steps to help parents show their children how to overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, so they can replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: A review of research on learning and infancy, drawn from hundreds of case studies, shows how children by the age of three are virtual learning machines and discusses how parents can help this learning process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999
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Summary: "When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: "The world's leading expert on the unconscious mind reveals the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior. For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been conducting revolutionary research into the unconscious mind--not Freud's dark, malevolent unconscious but the new unconscious, a helpful and powerful part of the mind that we can access and understand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154 BARCastaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco)
Summary: "In this fascinating nonfiction account, author Nancy F. Castaldo reveals just what's going on inside the minds of animals, and through understanding animal intelligence we discover more about ourselves, including far more similarities than one might expect. Humans may have the biggest brains, but intelligence is not a quality exclusive to only us!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth. Goleman's argument is based on a highly original synthesis of current research, including new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality. He shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. And because the emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain's circuitry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 GOLBredesen, Dale E.
Summary: In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, this outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: Every creation begins as a thought, from a symphony to a marriage to an ice cream cone to a rocket launch. When we have an intention, a complex chain of events begins in our brains. Thoughts travel as electrical impulses along neural pathways. When neurons fire together they wire together, creating electromagnetic fields. These fields are invisible energy, yet they influence the molecules of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 CHUGoldin-Meadow, Susan
Summary: "Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: "Yale Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn explains why our judgment is so often wrong-and offers actionable strategies to help us respond to real-life challenges as individuals and as societies at large"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Summary: "A bold new book that proves our bodies and surroundings know more than our brains do"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important--and astoundingly simple--thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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Summary: Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool. Drawing on a decade of research, Gigerenzer demonstrates that gut feelings are actually the result...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: "From phishing scams to pyramid schemes, our world is filled with people who want to fool us. In Nobody's Fool, expert psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris break down the science behind deception to pull back the curtain on how we can all avoid being scammed--or even scam the scammers in return. Simons and Chabris identify ten specific features of our psychology that make us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177 SIMByers, William
Contents: Turing on the light -- The light of ambiguity. Ambiguity in mathematics -- The contradictory in mathematics -- Paradoxes and mathematics : infinity and the real numbers -- More paradoxes of infinity : geometry, cardinality, and beyond -- The light as idea. The idea as an organizing principle -- Ideas, logic, and paradox -- Great ideas -- The light and the eye of the beholder. The truth of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2007
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Summary: One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve readers' brainpower for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973
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Summary: "When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio / Penguin 2021
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Contents: The harp that came back: my journey begins -- Going public with private knowing: breaking the silence -- Disavowing the extraordinary: personal cost and public consequences -- States of mind: knowing that doesn't feel like knowing -- Intuitive intelligence: the art and science of union -- Starting, and stopping, the conversation: the strange history of paranormal research -- Tossing out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.8 MAYSummary: It’s normal for the brain to short-circuit every now and then—you put your keys in the fridge, or can’t find the pair of glasses on top of your head. But what if there was away to eat, exercise, and live that could eliminate these “senior moments?” Ageless Brain offers a plan to sharpen your memories and mind so that at 40, you have the quick, agile brain you had at 30. Based on groundbreaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books, and imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Summary: "For fans of Charles Duhigg, Philip Tetlock and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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Summary: "One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016