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2121: A Tale From the Next Century by Susan Greenfield
Category: Fiction
In the near future, humanity has experienced a great schism. The larger part is ruled by instinct and pleasure: they are ageless, beautiful yet wholly dependent on technology designed by previous generations to sustain them. Having no social structure or self-consciousness to speak of, to the minority t ...Show more
2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield
Category: Fantasy
It is many years since the human race gave up its individuality. Our world is now a place of technicolour, mechanical beauty. Iridescent domes sit upon the ruins of the previous civilization, and small figures wander constantly between them - dancing, singing, running, but never touching. Each of us is ...Show more
A Day in the Life of the Brain - The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn till Dusk by Susan Greenfield
Category: Science
A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year What happens in our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk the dog, stare at a screen, daydream or sleep? World-renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield draws on her own pioneering research to illuminate the mystery of conscious ...Show more
A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn to Dusk by Susan Greenfield
Category: Science
Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else. But how do our physical brains actually give rise to this rich and varied experience of consciousness? In this ground-breaking book, internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield brings t ...Show more
Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
Category: Personal Development | Series: Science Masters
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
Human Brain The by Greenfield Susan
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
ID - The Quest For Identity In the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
Category: Science & Natural History
Our individuality is under attack as never before. Two huge new forces - technological advances and the rise in fundamentalism - are in their different ways combining to threaten our control of our minds and so the whole way our society functions. We have never more urgently needed to look at what we wa ...Show more
ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
Category: Languages and Reference
A stark warning from one of the world's leading neuroscientists about the threats to our individuality from modern living and what we can do about it.
Inside the Body : Fantastic Images from Beneath the Skin by Susan Greenfield
Category: Science & Natural History
It's time to see your body as you've never seen it before. It's time to venture Inside the Body with the latest imaging techniques to discover the remarkable inner workings of the human anatomy. Our photographic journey begins with individual cells - the tiny building blocks of life. We see the extraord ...Show more
Mind Change by Susan Greenfield
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, ...Show more
Mind Change by Susan Greenfield
Category: History
In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, ...Show more