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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves...
One of the most complex unsolved mysteries in science is how the brain produces consciousness. …
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World...
How often do you read in a deep and sustained way fully immersed, even transformed,…
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by...
More than any other life stage adolescence is derided and characterized as an unpredictable, turbulent…
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Surprise: The Adolescent Brain Isn’t Broken
Chapter 2 of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain kicks off with…
Life Without Memory: Your Hippocampus and You
Who are you without your memory? In neurobiological lingo: who are you without your hippocampus?…
The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and...
Abigail Marsh’s 2017 book , reviews research by her and others showing that extraordinary altruists…
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Attack of the Teenage Brain!: Understanding and Supporting the Weird...
John Medina, developmental molecular biologist and New York Times best-selling author, has written a book…
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Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children by Yong...
Yong Zhao, University of Kansas Professor of education, has published over 30 books, including a…
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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius...
Gail Saltz, author of The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius, argues…
You, Your Child, and School: Navigating Your Way to the...
Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica previously argued in their 2015 book Creative Schools (reviewed here)…
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