This is the "The New York Times" bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned "CBS News" senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are true: In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused when he saw the young President-elect[...]
What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally [...]
What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level of an individual neuron? With renowned brain researcher Susan Greenfield as your guide, here is your chance to gain a birds eye view of the human brainand t[...]
This comprehensive and practical book offers a how-to guide to developing new first-year programs and enhancing existing programs. The authors identify and discuss the multiple elements that contribute to sustained student success and the programs that have the capacity to continue to meet student n[...]
How does the human brain produce your private world? In this groundbre aking exploration, neuroscientist and author Susan Greenfield demystif ies the private life of the brain. She examines the physical basis of our emotions and searches for the answer to one of the most enduring m ysteries in moder[...]
A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Greenfield has traveled the world - from Los Angeles [...]
How do our personalities and mental processes, our "states of consciousness," derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg? How can mere molecules constitute an idea or emotion? Some of the most important questions we can ask are about our own consciousness. Our person[...]
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in[...]
"Reading EEGs: A Practical Approach" focuses on pattern recognition and pattern comparison. The concepts of pattern recognition are developed in a logical fashion based on appearance rather than disease process. The book teaches waveform recognition so that the reader can generate a differential dia[...]
Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way: "One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed into such a small country. . . . Birds are, happ[...]
An emotional journey that follows four patients through the Renfrew Center, a residential facility in Florida dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders, and includes portraits of fifteen other residents of diverse ages and backgrounds.[...]
We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price?
Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Green[...]
In this book the authors push forward our understanding of what young children's creative thinking is, and how it promotes young children's well-being.[...]