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Sleights of Mind

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee ...

"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield—it will also change the way you think about the mind." —Jonah Lehrer, New York Times–bestselling authorStephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their ... Read more

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"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield—it will also change the way you think about the mind." —Jonah Lehrer, New York Times–bestselling authorStephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their
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Champions of Illusion

The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles

by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik ...

A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind them."[An] entertaining compilation . . . Readers will find the visual puzzles positively addictive." — Physics Today"Fascinating." ―Mental FlossIn Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from thei... ... Read more

$15.19 USD

A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind them."[An] entertaining compilation . . . Readers will find the visual puzzles positively addictive." — Physics Today"Fascinating." ―Mental FlossIn Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from thei...
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Sleights of Mind

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

by Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

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10 hours 6 min

Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time, even when you know full well that you are being ... Read more

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Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time, even when you know full well that you are being
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The Book of Minds

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

by Philip Ball ...

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

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18 hours 5 min

Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them ... Read more

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Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them
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The Exquisite Machine

The New Science of the Heart

by Sian Harding ...

Narrated by Polly Lee ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day—if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decadesof effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart’s perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite ... Read more

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Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day—if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decadesof effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart’s perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite
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Perception

How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

by Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer ...

Narrated by Angela Dawe ...

Unabridged

7 hours 13 min

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look ... Read more

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A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look
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The Deep Learning Revolution

by Terrence J. Sejnowski ...

Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

How deep learning–from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants–is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks ... Read more

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How deep learning–from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants–is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks
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Evolutions

Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

by Oren Harman ...

Narrated by Oren Harman ...

Unabridged

5 hours 49 min

We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific ... Read more

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We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific
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Consciousness Instinct, The

Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

by Michael S. Gazzaniga ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow 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 been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the ... Read more

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“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow 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 been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the
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Character

The History of a Cultural Obsession

by Marjorie Garber ...

Narrated by Pamela Almand ...

Unabridged

16 hours 28 min

A spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday lifeWhat is “character”? How can it be measured, developed, or built? Are character traits fixed or changeable? Is character innate, or can it be taught?Since Aristotle’s Poetics, philosophers, moralists, artists, and scientists have engaged with the ... Read more

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A spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday lifeWhat is “character”? How can it be measured, developed, or built? Are character traits fixed or changeable? Is character innate, or can it be taught?Since Aristotle’s Poetics, philosophers, moralists, artists, and scientists have engaged with the
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Meetings That Get Results

A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better Meetings

by Terrence Metz ...

Narrated by Jeff Hoyt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes.This valuable resource lays out a structured method for designing and leading better meetings. Its facilitative approach marks a transition from the leader as "the expert with the answers" to a new world ... Read more

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This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes.This valuable resource lays out a structured method for designing and leading better meetings. Its facilitative approach marks a transition from the leader as "the expert with the answers" to a new world
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Irony and Sarcasm

by Roger Kreuz ...

Narrated by Joel Richards ...

Series series MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

A biography of two troublesome words.Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern ... Read more

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A biography of two troublesome words.Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern
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