Cognitive Science
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Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s X], applies his superior logic and pr
- Author: Gawdat, Mo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1501157582
- Language: English
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Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
$21.99 Read moreA Next Big Idea Club Must-Read
A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale’s most popular courses of all time
How does the brain–a three-pound
- Author: Bloom, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0063096366
- Language: English
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Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Have you ever wondered why you- Author: Barrett, Lisa Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 035864559X
- Language: English
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
$19.00 Add to cart* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg‘s “52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending” * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year *
A- Author: Burgis, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250266645
- Language: English
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–From Azure to Zinc Pink
$32.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues–and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Word
begonia (n.): 3- Author: Stamper, Kory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1524733032
- Language: English
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The Man Who Wasn’t There: Tales from the Edge of the Self
$24.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Oliver Sacks, science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society by examining a range of neuropsycholog
- Author: Ananthaswamy, Anil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1101984325
- Language: English
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The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
$31.99 Add to cartFrom the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems
- Author: Griffiths, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1250358353
- Language: English
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
$34.00 Add to cartFrom Michael Pollan, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, a dazzling and panoptic exploration of consciousness–what it is, who has it, and why–and a meditation on the… [more below]
- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217294534
- Language: English
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Arrow: The Power and Poison of Story
$16.99 Add to cartStory is the superpower of our species – but also our greatest vulnerability.
Through the ages, we’ve used stories to entertain, to teach, and to persuade each other – but somewhere along the way, Stor
- Author: Gadea, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998893506
- Language: English
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness–what it is, who has it, and why–and a meditation on the essence of our humanity
When- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 198488199X
- Language: English
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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
$29.95 Add to cartA disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories- Author: Ramirez, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691266689
- Language: English
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The Sapient Cosmos: What a Modern-Day Synthesis of Science and Philosophy Teaches Us about the Emergence of Information, Consciousness, and Meaning
$48.95 Add to cartEver since the human mind awoke to its own existence, it has wondered about its cosmic significance. By dispelling myths and religious convictions, science entered the arena of explanatory templates. … [more below]
- Author: Glattfelder, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1803414049
- Language: English
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The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
$32.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening journey into the inner workings of human and artificial minds
When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then- Author: Suri, Gaurav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605268
- Language: English
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How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence
$34.00 Add to cart“This is essential reading for parents.” — Dr. Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General
Greatly expanding his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, Pulitz
- Author: Richtel, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433028
- Language: English
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The Neural Mind: How Brains Think
$35.00 Add to cartOffers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.
What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experi- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 022683588X
- Language: English
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
$29.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph
Why do some people become radicalized?
How do ideologies shape the human brain?
And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? In T- Author: Zmigrod, Leor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 125034459X
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive
$28.95 Add to cartWeaving together cutting-edge science and the contemplative insights that arise from mystical experience, Dr. James Cooke radically redraws our understanding of consciousness and what it truly means t
- Author: Cooke, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1633889920
- Language: English
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Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders–And How We Can Change That
$29.95 Add to cartA neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time–brain and mental illnesses
Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation- Author: Rust, Nicole C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0691243050
- Language: English
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More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives
Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech,- Author: MacDonald, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593545273
- Language: English
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Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes
$32.00 Add to cartWhy is it so hard to speak up, even when we know something’s wrong?
This is the definitive book on defiance, a clear-eyed dissection of the forces that silence us, featuring groundbreaking research an- Author: Sah, Sunita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593793714
- Language: English
