History of the human brain

History of the Human Brain

In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to

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Human Brain

Susan Greenfield, one of the world's pre-eminent scientists, takes the reader on a guided tour of the final frontier in human understanding: the brain

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Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story

When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain

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Cybernetic Brain

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. This title follows the history of cybernetics' impact on the worl

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Human History of Emotion

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions ev

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Human History of Emotion

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions ev

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On Deep History and the Brain

Dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the conti

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Inside Out Human Brain

Inside Out Human Brain takes readers inside the body’s supercomputer: the brain. With a layered die-cut model of each lobe of the brain, plus the

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Human Brain Coloring Book

Developed by internationally renowned neurosurgeons, this unique book is designed for students of psychology and the biological sciences, and medical, dental, and nursing students.

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Human Brain Coloring Book

Developed by internationally renowned neuro-surgeons, this book is designed for students of psychology and the biological sciences, and medical, denta

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Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross

The human story of Cambridgeshire's Napoleonic War prison

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Dark Side of the Cut

The previously untold hidden history of canals, revealing the dark side of crime and alcohol abuse and the real human cost of the Industrial Revolutio

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Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War

Capturing the stories of ordinary human beings who lived through extraordinary times

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Brain of the Firm

This revised edition of a business management textbook develops an account of a company based upon insights derived from the study of the human nervou

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Rot at the Core

A disturbingly frank and human account of injustice, crime, damaged lives and the pursuit of truth

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Rot at the Core

A disturbingly frank and human account of injustice, crime, damaged lives and the pursuit of truth

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War in the Wilderness

War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The Chindit expeditions behin

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Kursk 1943

Putting a human face and voices to the Battle of Kursk (Operation Zitadelle)

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Kursk 1943

Putting a human face and voices to the Battle of Kursk (Operation Zitadelle)

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How Would You Like Your Mammoth?

This culinary romp through 50 dishes that shaped human history will tickle the tastebuds of every food lover

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Plague

This title is a history of the Black Death, the greatest catastrophe in human history which wiped out 50 per cent of Europe's population.

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Mountains before Mountaineering

**The human story of mountains, long before modern mountaineers battled to be ‘first’ upon their summits**

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Fire and Ice

The first assessment of the human consequences of the scorched earth devastation in Norway, including mass displacement, murder, survival, miracle res

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Dangerous Game

'I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead.'

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Human Animal in Western Art and Science

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as cl...

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Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication

A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the 'photograph' of a black hole in deep space. Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civi...

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Human Rights in World History

This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present.

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History of Big History

This Element examines the theory and practice of Big History, considers it alongside previous largescale attempts to unite human and natural history,

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Kay's Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body - Adam Kay

<p>The brand-new, hilarious book from bestselling, record-breaking author Adam Kay.The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off but there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then . . . doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked.It's time to find out why Ancient Egyptians thought the brain was just ...

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Great Myths of the Brain

Great Myths of the Human Brain utilizes cutting edge research in its comprehensive examination of dozens of myths surrounding the function of the huma

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History of Veterinary Medicine and the Animal-Human Relationship

This comprehensive book is an exploration of the history of veterinary medicine from the ancient world to the present as well as an examination of the

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Evolution of the Learning Brain

This fascinating book tells the emerging story of how learning has evolved. It provides a fresh perspective on the nature of human learning and on the

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History of the World

From the earliest civilizations to the twenty-first century, Andrew Marr's A History of the World is a compelling global journey through human history

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Atlas of the Morphology of the Human Cerebral Cortex on the Average MNI Brain

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI - Max Bennett

<p>A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.</p> <p>The entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Ea...

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Microbiome and the Brain

The microbiome is at the forefront of many areas of scientific discoveries. Much about the human microbiome is applicable to medical specialties, but

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Idiot Brain

Celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory, and the impact of these quirks on our daily lives. This book book is suitable for

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Origins of Human Rights

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provid

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Brain Supremacy

The human mind and brain are now among the hottest subjects in scientific research. Breakthrough techniques mean we are on the verge of being able to

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Programming the Human Biocomputer

Drawing from his extensive knowledge of and experimentation with brain biochemistry, the inventor of the sensory isolation tank outlines the parallels

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Altruistic Brain

The Altruistic Brain uses language accessible to non-scientists so as to present an elegant theory of how human beings are "wired" to produce altruist

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Book of Human Emotions

Now available in paperback: let Tiffany Watt Smith guide you through the history, politics, art, literature and philosophy of 156 emotions from around

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Pull Of History, The: Human Understanding Of Magnetism And Gravity Through The Ages

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Diagnosis Human

The medical model of mental health reduces human distress to a problem of brain chemistry and ignores the vital role of relationships. Here, two thera

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Penguin History of the World

Tells the story of human endeavour that laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain. This book reflects what now seems to be the inexorable

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Gamera: A Human Powered Helicopter

Provides an engineering history of the human powered helicopter creatively designed, skilfully built, and courageously flown by students of the Univer

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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart

Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...

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Human Neuropsychology

Introduces the relationship between brain structure and activity, its function and behaviour. This book covers topics in the field of human neuropsych

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Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain

The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain is a groundbreaking compendium of current research on music in the human brain. It brings together an inter

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The Atomic Human

A vital perspective is missing from the discussions we're having about Artificial Intelligence: what does it mean for our identity?Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displ...

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Human Tide

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

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Human Kindness

Be inspired by incredible stories of kindness from around the world and throughout history.

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Human Advantage

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana ...

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Human Cosmos

A journey through the history of science and man's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize-short

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Human Cosmos

A journey through the history of science and humankind's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize

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Human Frontiers

A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to today

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First Encyclopedia of the Human Body

Introduces young readers to the wonders of the human body. Filled with information on the brain, respiration, circulation and the senses, this title a

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Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior

Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior provides an accessible introduction to the study of human neuroscience.

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Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior

Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior provides an accessible introduction to the study of human neuroscience.

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Return to the Brain of Eden

Over a period of a million years the human brain expanded at an increasingly rapid rate, and then, 200,000 years ago, the expansion abruptly stopped. Modern science has overlooked this in order to maintain that we are at the pinnacle of our evolution. However, the halt in brain expansion explains not only recently uncovered anomalies within the human brain but also the gl...

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