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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author Behind the Shock Machine The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments Gina Perry When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that... How to Create a Mind The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Ray Kurzweil The bestselling author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain. Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential futurist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative exploration of the... The Trauma of Everyday Life Mark Epstein Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. In The Trauma of Everyday Life renowned psychiatrist and... Hallucinations Oliver Sacks In another fascinating work, Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) unravels the mysteries of the mind in this neurological investigation of a mysterious, yet surprisingly common phenomenon. Using patient stories and personal anecdotes as his... A Very Short Tour of the Mind 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain Michael C. Corballis Why do we remember faces but not names? If your brain were cut in half would you suffer more than a splitting headache? How does your dog remember where it buried its bone but you can't find your keys? And do we really only use ten percent of our brains? In A Very Short Tour of the Mind, Michael C. Corballis answers these questions and more... How Everyone Became Depressed The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown Edward Shorter About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to... American Honor Killings Desire and Rage Among Men David McConnell "Utilizing an empathetic narrative nonfiction approach, novelist McConnell, co-chair of the Lambda Literary Foundation, casts a humanizing eye upon monstrous deeds…a journalistic tour de force made all the more impressive by jailhouse interviews... Subliminal How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and... Guitar Zero The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age Gary Marcus Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Hallucinations Oliver Sacks In another fascinating work, Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) unravels the mysteries of the mind in this neurological investigation of a mysterious, yet surprisingly common phenomenon. Using patient stories and personal anecdotes as... The Psychopath Test A Journey Through the Madness Industry Jon Ronson You may be one. But if you're not, someone you know is! An intriguing read. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played... Subliminal How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for... Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So A Memoir Mark Vonnegut, M.D. More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower... 1 2 >>>