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  • OpenVZ Essentials

    by Mark Furman ...
    If you are a system administrator or Linux professional who wants to learn to set up, install, and manage OpenVZ containers on a server to implement OS-level virtualization, then this book is for you. Along with elementary knowledge of Linux programming, you need to have a conceptual understanding of system components and functions. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Neurophysics of Human Behavior

    Explorations at the Interface of Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information

    How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of ... Read more

    $365.99 CAD

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  • How to Create a Mind

    The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio“Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Mind & The Brain

    Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

    A "fascinating" and groundbreaking work of science that demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).Conventional science has long held that "the mind" is an illusion, a mere side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. The Mind & The Brain argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. Dr. Schwartz, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Consciousness Instinct

    Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

    " The Consciousness Instinct could be the clearest and most compelling attempt to demystify the mind yet written." —Julian Baggini, The Wall Street JournalHow do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"—atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells—create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Your Brain Is a Time Machine

    The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

    "Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street JournalIn Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Consciousness

    Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

    by Christof Koch ...
    Embark on a wild ride through the neuroscience of consciousness in this compelling study that “[sheds] light on how scientists really think”—hailed as “science writing at its best” (Times Higher Education).A scientist searches for an empirical explanation for consciousness, spurred by his instinctual belief that life is meaningful . . .What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Models of the Mind

    How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain

    by Grace Lindsay ...
    The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses.For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Free Agents

    How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

    An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Form Within

    My Point of View

    THE FORM WITHIN is the fascinating story of two hundred years of pioneering brain research, told from the unique perspective of the only brain scientist who has been, and still remains, an active participant in that story throughout the past seventy years: Karl H. Pribram.In THE FORM WITHIN, Dr. Pribram takes us on a compelling journey from the dawn of our collective recorded perceptions” in cave ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Future of the Brain

    Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

    The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Mathematics of Marriage

    Dynamic Nonlinear Models

    Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage provides the foundation for a scientific theory of marital relations. The book does not rely on metaphors, but develops and applies a mathematical model using ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD