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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . . The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself The Law of Awareness:...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kursweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges, brain computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world's problems.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett...Yes, [the brain] is an absolute marvel in some respects--the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of all human experience--but your brain is also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out-of-date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things...
Author
Publisher
Hudson Row Publishing
Pub. Date
2013, c2009
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
463 ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thirty-something coming of age story of one woman's journey of rediscovering family, friendship, love and faith, but most importantly herself, told in her own words through the pages of her journal.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book will shine light on some of the hard-to-reach places in the brain, showing the ways in which we are not the ones driving the boat. Why does the conscious mind know so little? What do visual illusions unmask about the machinery running under the hood? How much of our lives are determined by choices and behaviors that are hard-wired, unconscious, and beyond our control? Do we have any management over who we find gorgeous or repugnant? How...
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world filled with commitments, a young girl decides to take a day just to herself, filling it with all the activities that maker her happy and center her soul, from having a picnic with her teddy bear to working on her warrior pose. Maybe tomorrow she'll take over the world, but Today is a me day.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide...
54) The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--
56) Replicas
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Explore consciousness with a leading neuroscientist, talented writer, and the researcher who has put forth one of the subject's central theories. For those intrigued by the deep and enduring mysteries of the human mind, this is a first-class intellectual adventure."--Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe.e.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1594 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Hunter is a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Leaving work, he suddenly finds himself pursued by assailants through deserted alleyways. Then a silent bullet clips his head ... and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world where everything is somehow more real--and dangerous--than on Earth. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First trade edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Maxwell intends to help readers maximize their potential with this 90-day guide that delivers daily inspiration and advice for bringing out their best, personally and professionally, one day at a time.
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