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Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists.. We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent,... |
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book.. In How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting... |
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
Alan Lightman - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?. Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic... |
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.. Many of us think of the arts... |
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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Dan Egan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty -- and now great peril -- all over the world.Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most... |
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
Dean King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite - from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir - iconic environmentalist,... |
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
JAKE BITTLE - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of climate migration - the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.When the subject of migration that will be caused by global climate... |
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