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Pub. Date
c1996
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384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive....
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"Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. Music is perhaps one of humanity's oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive story of how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every race and changing our understanding of gender and power in athletics and beyond"--
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"This book is about protection in elite sport. More specifically, it is about protective policies that regulate athletes' bodies by biocultural categories-age, weight, sex, impairment, "natural," and "enhanced" (doped). These categories are, at once, scientifically oriented and socially constructed. What seem to be obvious, organic, and quantifiable ways of measuring variations of human diversity are, in effect, historically and contextually specific...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems"--
Pub. Date
2024.
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xxxiii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renee Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, creative arts therapists, educators, healthcare providers and artists about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief, to enhancing...
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