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Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explores how human thoughts and decisions are often influenced by factors outside of our control, offering insights into brain complexities that are susceptible to environmental factors while sharing illuminating anecdotes about how people have been effectively manipulated by external stimuli.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social, medical, and psychological research in our lifetime. The idea that behaviors can be being addictive is new, but the threat is near universal. Experts are just beginning to acknowledge that we are...
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
5) Know this: today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether its technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, “become a big story, if not the big story.” In that spirit, this new addition to Edge.orgs fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important...