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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
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
Category: Science
Ever wondered why you can identify your favourite song from hearing only the first two notes? Or why you can't get that annoying jingle out of your head? Daniel Levitin's breathtaking - and wholly accessible - book, now published as an ebook, explains why. This is the first book to offer a comprehensiv ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
Category: Music
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, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo ...Show more
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world where the line between truth and lies is increasingly blurred by euphemistic terms such as 'post-truth', 'counter-knowledge', 'fringe theories' and others. In a world w ...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