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TRAVEL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION OF SIGHT AND SOUND with Rod Serling's classic television series exploring the fantastic and the frightening. This collection includes all 36 episodes from the fifth and final season of this legendary series.
Brains are just like cars, they all drive round and round a track, picking up information and then bringing it back. Some brains are race cars that like to drive extra fast. Sometimes though, they forget to stop and fully complete a task! But driving cars fast all the time and no...
A spin-off from the hit show "Happy Days," MORK & MINDY stars Robin Williams as the lovable alien from the planet Ork. Sent to Earth by his fellow Orkans who see him as a misfit, Mork is assigned to observe the customs of the crazy Earthlings. Landing in a giant eggshell in Bould...
"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life--and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense...
Do you feel like you're riding a premenstrual roller coaster every month that leaves you feeling hungry, tired, angry, sad, and unsexy? Leading researcher and women's hormone expert Dr. Sarah E. Hill explains why we feel so universally icky before our periods -- and what to do ab...
"Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creati...
"Seventeen-year-old Caleb Shaw's eidetic memory makes him a valuable asset to a government that harvests children like him for their innate ability to create memory modules for the brain drive-an implantable device that stores information in the form of memories. Caleb discovers ...
Why are some people compelled to take big risks on big ideas, attempting to change a market or, indeed, the world in ways that others find delusional? And why do they keep trying, again and again, often after repeated failures and at great personal expense? Neil Seeman is one of ...
"Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending ...
"This cutting-edge book reveals how a healthy gut can drive psychological well-being, improve your mood, and combat common diseases including depression, anxiety, obesity, heart disease--even autism and Alzheimer's--all by nurturing your microbiome. Welcome to psychobiotics, the ...
"A woman's body is always changing--necessarily and beautifully--throughout her life. The changes of perimenopause and menopause, however, are often jarring and uncomfortable: Hot flashes, weight gain, brain fog, and irritability can start as early as age thirty and last years. T...
A clinical psychologist and a test-prep expert combine cutting-edge brain science with insights from their work with families to outline a case for giving children more freedom to unleash their full potential.
"An engaging and deeply-reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality in human and nonhuman lives alike. The bonds of friendship are universal and elemental. In Friendship, journalist Lydia Denworth visits the front lines of the science of friendshi...
Dot, Yakko, Wakko-- uh-oh! Those rambunctious rascals of riot, those slaphappy siblings of silliness, those Warner wild-things of wackiness are back in this collection and they are bringing pals like Slappy the Squirrel with them.
"These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. After getting a master's degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in careg...
"How do you start and run a successful business despite the odds? This unique business guide teaches you practical--alongside emotional-intelligence and coping-skills that you need in order to overcome internal barriers to success no matter what type of business you are in. Joe B...
"We are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show that this way of thinking is both limited and an obstacle to understanding consciousness. In Dreaming Reality, Miskovic and Lynn connect the latest findings from neuroscienc...