Levitt, Steven D.
Summary: Think Like A Freak takes listeners further inside this special thought process, revealing a new way of approaching the decisions people make, the plans they create, and the morals they choose.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153.43 LEVJacobs, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.73 JACSummary: A compilation of excerpts of Wilson's lectures and interviews. Wilson addresses themes pertaining to human consciousness and perception and touches upon a variety of topics, including conspiracies, the occult, and medical marijuana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROBGopnik, Alison.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.413 GOPBroks, Paul
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153 BROBargh, John A.
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 BARGoleman, Daniel.
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 GOLChurch, Dawson
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GOLAhn, Woo-Kyoung
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 AHNPaul, Annie Murphy
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 PAUGigerenzer, Gerd.
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.44 GIGChapman, Sandra Bond.
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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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 GALMayer, Elizabeth Lloyd.
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 MAYCohen, Ben
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 COHHorowitz, Alexandra.
Summary: On looking : Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, a well-known artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, and how they see it, reveals the startling power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 HORNewport, Cal
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 NEWCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business NewportEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDETallis, Raymond.
Summary: "...writes about the head, what happens in it and how it is and is not connected to our sense of identity and conscousness..." -- from DJ.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128.2 TALBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Snow Lion Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 DALDobelli, Rolf
Summary: An exploration of human reasoning reveals how to recognize and avoid simple errors in our day-to-day thinking in order to transform the decision-making process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2013
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Summary: Draws on a series of walks the author took in her Manhattan neighborhood while accompanied by experts in various fields of knowledge to explore the nature of human perception and how individuals interact with the ordinary world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.7 HORMyers, David G.
Summary: Over the past three decades, millions of students have learned about psychology from textbooks by David G. Myers. To create these books and to satisfy his own endless curiosity about the human mind, Myers monitors the leading journals to discover the most extraordinary new developments in psychological science. How Do We Know Ourselves? is a compendium of the most wondrous verities that Myers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022