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John Brown Still Lives!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

John Brown Still Lives!

"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.

The Right Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Right Brain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Berkley

Explores the duality of the human mind and its implications for education and human happiness, detailing how the right half of the brain affects athletic prowess, problem-solving skills, and sexual prowess

Beyond the Conscious Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Beyond the Conscious Mind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

The Nobel Prize-winning work of Roger Sperry revolutionized our understanding of human consciousness by proving that separate thinking and knowledge could exist in the left and right halves of the brain. Now, popular science writer Thomas Blakeslee - author of the highly acclaimed The Right Brain - takes us to a new level of understanding based on the theory of neural Darwinism by Gerald Edelman, another Nobel Prize winner. Blakeslee explains that our neurons spontaneously organize into hundreds of groups called modules that compete to respond to every situation in our lives - from reading this paragraph to falling in love. A vast preponderance of this activity operates outside of our conscious awareness.

The Attitude Factor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

The Attitude Factor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-12
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

Blakeslee presents a practical program of "attitude jogging" exercises to help readers get out of a rut and get to the things they enjoyed as a child. Line illustrations.

Creativity and Intuition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Creativity and Intuition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Kodansha

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On Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

On Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-04-01
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

The inventor of the PalmPilot shares a compelling new theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of artificial intelligence. Tech innovator Jeff Hawkins reshaped our relationship to computers with devices like the PalmPilot. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself. In this book, Hawkins develops a powerful theory of human cognition and explains how, based on his theory, we can finally build intelligent machines. According to Hawkins, the brain is a complex system that remembers sequences of events and their nested relationships. This style of organization reflects the true structure of the...

The Secret Keeper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

The Secret Keeper

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

The Ego Tunnel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Ego Tunnel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-17
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain-an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is "a virtual self in a virtual reality."But if the self is not "real," why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.

Selected Letters of William Styron
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 706

Selected Letters of William Styron

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-04
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  • Publisher: Random House

In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, and he was nervous about whether his “strain and toil” would amount to anything. “When I mature and broaden,” Styron told Blackburn, “I expect to use the language on as exalted and elevated a level as I can sustain. I believe that a writer should accommodate language to his own peculiar personality, and mine wants to use great words, evocative words, when the situation demands them.” In February 1952, Styron was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Let...

Dark Matter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Dark Matter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-10-21
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...