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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
Changing Mind A Neuroscientist s Guide to Ageing Well by Levitin Daniel
Category: Other Science
Field Guide to Lies by Daniel Levitin
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The bestselling author of The Organized Mind explains and debunks statistics in the information age We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting pol ...Show more
The Changing Mind by Levitin, Daniel
Category: General Health
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for the rest of your life' Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive' The secrets of ageing well ... a serious, evidence-based guide to what really works and why' Sunday Times _______ ...Show more
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
Category: Personal Development
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
Category: Personal Development
We have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with deterioration. Yet, recent studies show that our decision-making skills improve as we age and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our brains as we get older?More of us are living into our eighties than ever ...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 Organized Mind: The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus by Daniel Levitin
Category: Personal Development
New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more--and faster--decisions about ...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
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
Category: Science
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...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