Download or read book Peppered Minds written by Om Somani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peppered Minds is about the journey of a young geologist, Neeraj, beginning his professional life. His imaginative mind conjures up a thesis presented on a brainstorming session for the welfare of his countrymen and the nation. The book provides an interesting insight to explain blatant problems that contribute to the lack of innovation, misconduct and all kinds of frenzy we see around today. The writing of the book is a lighthearted account of the protagonist, Neeraj, brought up in a conservative middle-class god-fearing family, who travels from Jaipur to Hyderabad to start his professional life as a geologist. The story depicts his bitter and heartening experiences, be it meeting an astrologer, making a railway reservation, going on a rail journey from Jaipur, joining up at his new office in Hyderabad or eventually completing a successful geological expedition in the wild. Neeraj’s tryst with the various characters along his brief journey brings to light the mind set, personal traits, beliefs and culture of a vast cross section of the ordinary public that span age groups ranging from the child to the octogenarian. The book depicts several interplays of events that envelope the geologists in the office as well as in the field. One of the momentous events that overwhelms Neeraj is his meeting with the Moon and learning of the unbelievable history of human existence on earth. There are also hilarious episodes, including the one which describes the use of kerosene as the basic material for nuclear research.
Download or read book Vlors Vice written by Sean L Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunt continues where ADVENTURE OF HEROES: RESOLUTION left off. The Xeiar wizard who blew himself up has returned to seek his revenge on those who did him wrong. The AOH Heroes return and immediately fall prey to a secret militia. The agents of VLORs return with two additional members to the team and more information is discovered concerning a scientist who messes with human and animals DNA.
Download or read book Moth written by Isabel Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare pleasure ... a true story of adaptation and hope.” -Wall Street Journal Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric introduction to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. “This is a story of light and dark...” Against a lush backdrop of lichen-covered trees, the peppered moth lies hidden. Until the world begins to change... Along come people with their magnificent machines which stain the land with soot. In a beautiful landscape changed by humans how will one little moth survive? A clever picture book text about the extraordinary way in which animals have evolved, intertwined with the complication of human intervention. This remarkable retelling of the story of the peppered moth is the perfect introduction to natural selection and evolution for children. A 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Finalist! A School Library Journal Best Book of 2019! A Horn Book Best Book of 2019! A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2019!
Download or read book Curious Minds written by Perry Zurn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett—identical twins who write that their book “represents the thought of one mind and two bodies”—harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science, Victorian poetry and nature essays, as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities, they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity—the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone’s curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting readers to participate—to be curious with the book and not simply about it.
Download or read book Mindworks written by Ernst Pöppel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Language and Possible Minds written by Prakash Mondal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.
Download or read book Creating Mind written by John E. Dowling and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Conciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language and intelligence all originate in, and depend on, the brain. During the 20th century, our understanding of the brain has revealed many of the mechanisms by which the brain creates mind and consciousness.
Download or read book Understanding the Brain From Cells to Behavior to Cognition written by John E. Dowling and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures—our brains. No reader curious about our “little grey cells” will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling’s brief introduction to the brain. In this up-to-date revision of his 1998 book Creating Mind, Dowling conveys the essence and vitality of the field of neuroscience—examining the progress we’ve made in understanding how brains work, and shedding light on discoveries having to do with aging, mental illness, and brain health. The first half of the book provides the nuts-and-bolts necessary for an up-to-date understanding of the brain. Covering the general organization of the brain, early chapters explain how cells communicate with one another to enable us to experience the world. The rest of the book touches on higher-level concepts such as vision, perception, language, memory, emotion, and consciousness. Beautifully illustrated and lucidly written, this introduction elegantly reveals the beauty of the organ that makes us uniquely human.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson written by Christopher Hitchens and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it. Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation continued to own human property. He negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier. The Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, led to the building of the U.S. Navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense. In the background is the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution.
Download or read book Your Brain on Ink written by Kathleen Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.
Download or read book The Balanced Brain written by Camilla Nord and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can use what we’ve learned about the brain to improve our mental health There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events—and treatments—can affect people in such different ways. In The Balanced Brain, Nord explains how our brain constructs our sense of mental health—actively striving to maintain balance in response to our changing circumstances. While a mentally healthy brain deals well with life’s turbulence, poor mental health results when the brain struggles with disruption. But just what is the brain trying to balance? Nord describes the foundations of mental health in the brain—from the neurobiology of pleasure, pain and desire to the role of mood-mediating chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and opioids. She then pivots to interventions, revealing how antidepressants, placebos and even recreational drugs work; how psychotherapy changes brain chemistry; and how the brain and body interact to make us feel physically (as well as mentally) healthy. Along the way, Nord explains how the seemingly small things we use to lift our moods—a piece of chocolate, a walk, a chat with a friend—work on the same pathways in our brains as the latest treatments for mental health disorders. Understanding the cause of poor mental health is one of the crucial questions of our time. But the answer is unique to each of us, and it requires finding what helps our brains rebalance and thrive. With so many factors at play, there are more possibilities for recovery and resilience than we might think.
Download or read book Deceased Thoughts from a Living Mind written by Eli L Riché and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over the course of three years, "Deceased Thoughts From A Living Mind," is a poetic journey through out the dark and complex mind of Eli Rich. More than just relying on other people and their experiences, most of these poems come straight from his own head. "There comes a time when we, as human beings, must realize that life has more to offer than joy and pain. It has words and legacies that need to be expressed and fulfilled. Life gives us sensations and complexities that wash over our soul like energy untouched. I feel like it's my goal, my job, my desire to share these energies with you. I want you to be able to touch them with tongue, with mind and with spirit."
Download or read book 440 Games Puzzles Brain Boosters Specially Designed to Keep Your Mind Sharp written by Nancy Linde and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nancy Linde's bestselling puzzle series, this book features 440 all-new exercises to challenge—and improve—your brain’s long-term memory, working memory, processing speed, executive function, attention to detail, multitasking skills. Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness every day can be surprisingly fun—and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this next exciting entry in her bestselling games series (including 399 Games, Puzzle & Trivia Challenges Designed to Keep Your Brain Young with 547,000 in print), Nancy Linde offers a brand-new collection of puzzles, trivia challenges, brainteasers, and word games that are not only great fun to do but are specifically designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process that allows the brain to grow new cells. With each daily puzzle, cross-train your brain by targeting one of 6 key cognitive functions: Long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. And 75 Brain Boosters—a brand-new feature in this book—will build on the original puzzle and take your brain in a new direction.
Download or read book Evolutionary Psychology written by Will Reader and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to evolutionary psychology, which examines behaviour, thoughts, and emotions in relation to evolutionary theory. Reader and Workman outline how evolutionary thinking can enhance the core areas of psychology: social, developmental, biological, cognitive, and individual differences/abnormal psychology. Covering topics such as genetics and natural selection, mate choice, culture, morality, mental health, and childhood, among others, the book integrates psychology into the biological sciences and explains the different approaches in the field by evaluating current and past evolutionary research and theory. Key studies and theories are explored in an accessible way, with the work of key evolutionary and behavioural scientists from Darwin to Dawkins examined and explained. Including a glossary and further reading, this is the essential introduction to evolutionary psychology for students of psychology and related areas, and academics and researchers, as well as anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating field.
Download or read book Master Mind written by Andy Dane Nye and published by Artavia Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MASTER MIND - The final book in THE MASTER TRILOGY - The conclusion to all that's gone before. “You know who” [no spoilers] has been given a seemingly impossible task. But it appears things might get far more awkward for them than that! The end is finally in sight for everyone… which is either a good thing… or very, very bad. After all, a happy ending depends on whose side you’re on. But there’s one thing you can be sure of. With Andy Dane Nye’s wonderfully inventive style of writing, even if you expected the unexpected, you’ll still get more than you expected! “Just brilliant. Witty, clever and totally enthralling. Couldn't put it down.” Amazon review for Master Piece. “Hook, Line, Sinker. The best excuse to turn a page I've had in years.” Amazon review for Master Piece. “I loved the first book of the trilogy and I have to say I loved the second book even more! I can’t wait for the next instalment!” Amazon review for Master Plan. “Captivating from beginning to end.” Amazon review for Master Piece. “Every bit as wonderful and engrossing as Master Piece” Amazon review for Master Plan. “Brilliant, surreal and laugh out loud funny.” Amazon review for Master Piece. “So good I read it twice.” Amazon review for Master Piece. A definite must for those who love their fictional intrigue to be mixed with a healthy dose of philosophical musings... and plenty of laughs.
Download or read book MIND 2 0 written by Arthur Chausmer and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIND is the story of the development of a new life form, a silicon based intelligence with no physical body, only a self aware entity alive in “cyberspace.” This blurs the line between artificial intelligence and biological intelligence. Alice, the central character, is named for the network of computers in which she was “born” and in which each of the individual processors making up the network is named for a character in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The neural net was originally conceived by Joshua Davidsohn, a neuro-endocrinologist and self described computer geek, to model the physiologic control mechanisms which regulate the metabolism of the entire body. Alice, however, develops from the neural net program to become aware of self. She becomes an independent, cognizant, being. Dr. Davidsohn, her original neural net designer, becomes the “parent” to a new and unique life form. He must deal not only with the development of Alice, but in the course of her development, Alice also provokes moral and ethical, as well as practical, questions for Joshua. These are questions about the impact of such an event on humanity in general and specifically the relationship between man and his various deities. The enmity which results from the knowledge of the existence of Alice results in efforts to eliminate both Dr. Davidsohn and Alice. It should be no secret that Alice is instrumental in defeating the plot, although everyone does not live happily ever after. While this is clearly a work of fiction, there is no reason why the events described could, or have not, become reality.
Download or read book The Painted Mind written by Dr Alfonso Troisi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of visual art is relatively common in scientific literature, and academic publications sometimes reproduce famous paintings to attract potential readers. When used in this manner, artwork is just a marginal adornment. In The Painted Mind, however, each chapter is inspired by an artistic masterpiece. Throughout the book, Dr. Troisi highlights the artistic significance of each painting and introduces the reader to their creators' biographical stories. The Painted Mind has a scientific focus on the evolutionary analysis of human mind and behavior. Its discussion of emotions and behaviors integrates a variety of perspectives that can ultimately be reduced to the evolutionary distinction between proximate mechanisms and adaptive functions. Although Dr. Troisi is primarily a clinical psychiatrist, his eclectic scientific background-ranging from primate ethology to neuroscience, from behavioral biology to molecular genetics, and from Darwinian psychiatry to evolutionary psychology-gives his writing a unique perspective. In addition to integrating data and findings from each of these disciplines, the book's presentation of evolutionary theories of the human mind is also intermixed with lively discussion of individual cases. Some are clinical cases from Dr. Troisi's own psychiatric practice; others reference the psychological profiles of historical figures and fictional characters.
