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A Field Guide to Lies - Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method by Daniel J. Levitin
Category: Psychology
Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2017 National Business Book Award Shortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner Prize PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WEAPONIZED LIES Updated with an exciting new package, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bomb ...Show more
The Organised Mind - Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J Levitin
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Overwhelmed by demands on your time? Baffled by the sheer volume of data? You're not alone: modern society is in a state of information overload. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin investigates how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age. The twenty-first century sees ...Show more
The World in Six Songs by Daniel J. Levitin
Category: Fiction
Without music we would be little more than animals. Mr Levitin explains it beautifully' Sir George Martin This is a fascinating, entertaining book, and some of its most inventive themes may stay stuck in your head forever, something like a well-loved song' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love In ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
Category: Fiction
'This is the worst idea for a book I've ever heard - it makes me want to vomit. The idea encapsulates the very worst part of Western thought.' One week later...'I take it back - I'm sorry! This is great!' Joni Mitchell In his enthralling and revelatory This is Your Brain on Music Daniel Levitin unpicked ...Show more
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J Levitin
Category: Fiction
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Du ...Show more
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J Levitin
Category: Fiction
Levitin (psychology of electronic communication, McGill U., Canada) is a former record producer, sound engineer, and session musician. Here he describes music from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience and examines recent studies that tie it to meaning and pleasure. He first explains the elements of ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Category: Fiction
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to The Beatles, he reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form ev ...Show more
Weaponized LiesHow to Think Critically in the Post-truth Era by Daniel J. Levitin
Category: Reference
Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies We're surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are t ...Show more
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