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The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came From
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The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came FromEvolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident—a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly complex.
 
 
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The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (2nd Ed.)
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The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (2nd Ed.)The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (2nd Ed.)

A revised edition of the best-selling text on how relationships build our brains.
As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in regulating our emotional and social behavior. Although this interdependence is a reality of our existence, we are just beginning to understand that we have evolved as social creatures with interwoven brains and biologies.
 
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Tags: brains, social, understand, evolved, creatures, Neuroscience, Social, Brain
Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.
 
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The Punisher's Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury
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The Punisher's Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury

Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains by evolution.
 
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Sane New World: Taming the Mind
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Sane New World: Taming the MindSane New World: Taming the Mind

Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. Helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.
 
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Tags: brains, rewire, thinking, frenetic, understand, World, Taming