Brainstorms

Author : Daniel Clement Dennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540377
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms written by Daniel Clement Dennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.

Author : Jon Palfreman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711852
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Storms written by Jon Palfreman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers Weekly A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain Storms, the award-winning journalist Jon Palfreman tells their story, a story that became his own when he was diagnosed with the debilitating illness. Palfreman chronicles how scientists have worked to crack the mystery of what was once called the shaking palsy, from the earliest clinical descriptions of tremors, gait freezing, and micrographia to the cutting edge of neuroscience, and charts the victories and setbacks of a massive international effort to best the disease. He takes us back to the late 1950s and the discovery of L-dopa. He delves into a number of other therapeutic approaches to this perplexing condition, from partial lobotomies and deep brain stimulation to neural grafting. And he shares inspiring stories of brave individuals living with Parkinson's, from a former professional ballet dancer who tricks her body to move freely again to a patient who cannot walk but astounds doctors when he is able to ride a bicycle with no trouble at all. With the baby boom generation beginning to retire and the population steadily aging, the race is on to discover a means to stop or reverse neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Brain Storms is the long-overdue, riveting, and deeply personal story of that race, and a passionate, insightful, and urgent look into the lives of those affected.

Author : Roger Howerton
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780892217250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bible Brainstorms written by Roger Howerton and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzles and games that are serious fun - with scripture references that lead you back to answers and wisdom from God's Word!

Author : Les Duncan
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604622237
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Storms written by Les Duncan and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one person survive four brain hemorrhages and two brain surgeries, and still live a normal, joyful life? Join survivor Les Duncan for Brain Storms, a collection of twenty-seven tips for coping with and recovering from catastrophic illness. These easy-to-read chapters-free from confusing technical jargon-will inspire you to take back your life. Full of tips and practical information-like how to find an exceptional doctor, the trick to listening to your body, building a life of sheer determination, and becoming an occasional but likable nuisance when necessary-will enable you to make recovery your full-time job. Applicable both for survivors and caretakers, Brain Storms also deals with the importance of maintaining relationships throughout the difficult healing process. Be inspired to survive.

Author : Daniel J. Siegel MD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110163152X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorm written by Daniel J. Siegel MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times–bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children’s lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence—for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn vital skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, connect deeply with others, and safely experiment and take risks. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, Siegel explores exciting ways in which understanding how the brain functions can improve the lives of adolescents, making their relationships more fulfilling and less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.

Author : H. Joseph Horacek
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765700803
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms written by H. Joseph Horacek and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurophysiologic disorders that impair normal learning as well as social and emotional development afflict at least 5-8 percent of the school-aged children in this country. Significant symptoms often persist into adulthood and many people struggle for a lifetime, never understanding what continues to hamper their functioning. Brainstorms examines questions surrounding the possible neurobiological underpinnings of the emotionally hyperactive and hyperreactive components of ADHD and related disorders. These 'pre-psychological' substrata may, for example, be fundamental to what we think of as temperament. Here is where the regulation of selective attention and the filtration of noise reside, along with the neurosystems behind energy, sleep/wakefulness, and emotional intensity.The 'firecracker temperament' often associated with certain subtypes of ADHD is quick to heat up and just as quick to cool down. Episodes of dyscontrol, involving anger or any other strong emotion, can present the most challenging aspects of managing ADHD in people of all ages; on the other hand, what takes shape in one person as a handicap may be a welcome burst of creativity and inspired vision in others-such as Mozart, Edison, Hemingway. Exploration of the many paradoxes of these brainstorms is the business of Dr. Horacek's very different, very necessary book.

Author : Tom Connor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0762472464
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms and Mindfarts written by Tom Connor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative and occasionally bizarre collection of American inventions will help you discover successful and significant ideas—along with the frivolous and utterly useless ones lost to history. Innovation and entrepreneurism appear inextricably woven into the American DNA. Throughout American history, the great inventors and innovators gazed into the future and saw the products and services that would transform the world. While passionate about creating this new thing called a democracy, our Founding Fathers were also driven to change the way humans lived and worked—to complete everyday tasks faster, easier, and more efficiently. As of 2018, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But with over 500,000 applications now being filed annually, fewer than half of these applicants will be granted patents and far fewer still—an estimated one percent—will realize commercial success, according to the Office. Some are flawed by mistakes or missing details, others too ridiculous to take seriously, still others simply ahead of their time. From the brightest and most innovative to the wackiest, most bizarre, and downright crazy, this collection of 100 patents includes funny and informative descriptions and original illustrations, all the while letting you in on what most successful patents have in common, what inspired their creators, and how great inventors view the world.

Author : Thomas N. Turner
Publisher : Good Year Books
ISBN 13 : 9780673385550
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms written by Thomas N. Turner and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Author : Jairenmes Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469160552
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamo Brainstorms written by Jairenmes Robinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMO Brainstorms is a collection of fi fty-two poems, with one poem for each week of the year. The poems were written to broaden the mind and inspire the spirit of the reader. Topics range from the everyday to the abstract. Readers are encouraged to think about the words they are reading also. There is blank space provided for your very own brainstorm moments.

Author : Tom Tucker
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613113540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainstorm! written by Tom Tucker and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The stories of 20 ingenious young Americans who have filed patents with the U.S. Patent Office include Chester Greenwood, who invented ear muffs, and Vanessa Hess, who created colored car wax.