Your Brain: The Missing Manual Contributor(s): MacDonald, Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0596517785 ISBN-13: 9780596517786 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Distilling recent research in an engaging way, this reference presents usable information on creativitity, problem solving, reasoning, improving memory, reducing stress, brain development, and other life-changing topics. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Neuroscience - Science | Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology - Science | Life Sciences - Biology |
Dewey: 153.42 |
Series: Missing Manuals |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 273 pages |
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Publisher Description: Puzzles and brain twisters to keep your mind sharp and your memory intact are all the rage today. More and more people -- Baby Boomers and information workers in particular -- are becoming concerned about their gray matter's ability to function, and with good reason. As this sensible and entertaining guide points out, your brain is easily your most important possession. It deserves proper upkeep.
Learn about the built-in circuitry that makes office politics seem like a life-or-death struggle, causes you to toss important facts out of your memory if they're not emotionally charged, and encourages you to eat huge amounts of high-calorie snacks. With Your Brain: The Missing Manual you'll discover that, sometimes, you can learn to compensate for your brain or work around its limitations -- or at least to accept its eccentricities. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacDonald, Matthew: - Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with well over a dozen books to his name. Web novices can tiptoe out onto the Internet with him in Creating a Website: The Missing Manual. HTML fans can learn about the cutting edge of web design in HTML5: The Missing Manual. And human beings of all description can discover just how strange they really are in the quirky handbooks Your Brain: The Missing Manual and Your Body: The Missing Manual. |