About this title: A brilliant, wryly humorous, brief tour of the human mind built on first hand experience with patients and a dazzling research career. This long awaited new book by V.S. Ramachandran is akin to the bestselling works about patients by Oliver SacksWhat is body image? Why do we blush? What is art? What is free will? What is self? Until recently, these questions were the province of philosophy, but studies of the brain are now producing explanations based on research anyone can see for themselves in PET scans and MRI images. Neuroscientists such as V.S. Ramachandran are now unlocking the key to ...
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Description: Fine. 0131486861 **Hardcover**--Exact ISBN Match--Dust Jacket has almost no shelf wear. Tiny tip of first blank page has been clipped, very minor. No personalizations, writing or marks in the text. Clean, Tight and Neat. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PI Press., New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780131486867ISBN:0131486861
Description: First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 192 pp. Figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Barest hint of a bump to bottom corners otherwise Fine/Fine. read more
Description: FINE/FINE. A tour of what's inside our heads, focusing on five of the greatest mysteries of the brain. How does brain relate to mind? By a brilliant specialist-writer. No markings or wear, not clipped, unused condition. 2004, PI Press hardbound, 1st printing (stated), 192 pp. ISBN 0131486861 read more
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