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Field Guide to Lies by Daniel Levitin
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The bestselling author of The Organized Mind explains and debunks statistics in the information age We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting pol ...Show more
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
We have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with deterioration. Yet, recent studies show that our decision-making skills improve as we age and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our brains as we get older?More of us are living into our eighties than ever ...Show more
The Organized Mind: The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus by Daniel Levitin
$28.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more--and faster--decisions about ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
'This is the worst idea for a book I've ever heard - it makes me want to vomit. The idea encapsulates the very worst part of Western thought.' One week later...'I take it back - I'm sorry! This is great!' Joni Mitchell In his enthralling and revelatory This is Your Brain on Music Daniel Levitin unpicked ...Show more
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