Lehrer, Jonah
Summary: Drawing on the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, a New York Times best-selling author unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, shedding new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the calculated risks of the stock market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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Summary: Offers a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making--and how it can help us make better choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Lehrer ("How We Decide") introduces readers to musicians, graphic artists, poets, and bartenders to show how they can use science to be more imaginative and make their cities, their companies, and their culture more creative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Summary: Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites, Jonah Lehrer's A Book About Love plumbs the most mysterious, most formative, most important impulse governing our lives. Love confuses and compels us--and it can destroy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Contents: Walt Whitman : the substance of feeling -- George Eliot : the biology of freedom -- Auguste Escoffier : the essence of taste -- Marcel Proust : the method of memory -- Paul Cézanne : the process of sight -- Igor Stravinsky : the source of music -- Gertrude Stein : the structure of language -- Virginia Woolf : the emergent self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007