The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer
Have you ever found yourself re-reading the same sentence four or five times and thought "I should get more sleep"? Are you clueless as to why one paragraph just seems to "flow" while you simply can't recall the contents of another? Guess what: you are not alone. Even the best writers fail to grasp why their writing works.
It’s 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep? Shai Marcu defends the latter option, showing how sleep restructures your brain in a way that’s crucial for how our memory works.
It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles. The results are intriguing, startling, and often very amusing.
Brain World explores cutting-edge science and how its findings can affect human health, culture, education, global issues and more. Neuroscience is the next great scientific frontier with advances in understanding the nature of the brain, consciousness, behavior and health.
