Books on the Brain
The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
$39.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes... Buy or find out more→
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis... Buy or find out more→
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: and Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Young began life severely learning disabled, and built herself a better brain and a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same. In the past five years, the idea that self-improvement can happen in the... Buy or find out more→
The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System
$92.95 – Paperback / John Wiley and Sons Ltd
The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System is now completely revised and updated in a third edition, and now more than ever the best available visual guide to human neuroanatomy for undergraduate,... Buy or find out more→
The Brain and the Meaning of Life
$29.95 – Paperback / Princeton University Press
Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it?The Brain and the Meaning of Lifedraws on research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to answer some of... Buy or find out more→
Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment
$34.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through the intricate web of neuronal... Buy or find out more→
Brain-based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-based Treatment for Everyday Practice
$57.95 – Paperback / John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Suitable for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents, this book helps understand and successfully implement the most critical elements of neuroscience into an evidence-based mental health practice. Buy or find out more→
The Brain: A Beginner's Guide
$24.95 – Paperback / Oneworld Publications
It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. From a brief history of neuroscience to the most up-to-date research on the brain processes behind a wide array of... Buy or find out more→
Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation
$44.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
When conditions like anxiety and depression are experienced chronically, they condition neural pathways and shape a person’s perception of and response to life events. As these pathways are reinforced, unhealthy neural networks... Buy or find out more→
The Brain Book
$49.95 – Hardback / Dorling Kindersley Ltd
An illustrated guide to the structure, functions and disorders of the human brainThe human brain is the body part that makes each of us what we are – unique individuals. Here the latest findings in neuroscience and... Buy or find out more→
Teach Yourself Brain Boot Camp
$20.99 – Paperback / Hodder Education
The ultimate mental workout. Designed to test your mental ability in all the key fields, from verbal reasoning to logic and numerical thinking, this is a series of increasingly difficult workouts that will challenge you on every... Buy or find out more→
Maintain Your Brain: What You Can Do to Improve Your Brain's Health and Avoid Dementia
$28.00 – Paperback / ABC Books
Within twenty years, dementia is set to overtake heart disease as the number one cause of death in Australia. Recent studies show that almost half our adult population already have a family member or friend with the illness.... Buy or find out more→
The Exceptional Brain: and How it Changed the World
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history. Buy or find out more→
The Neurotourist: Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science
$19.95 – Paperback / Oneworld Publications
Acclaimed journalist and intrepid brain "explorer" Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today's top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, health,... Buy or find out more→
Memory
$35.00 – Paperback / Vintage
This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the subject on memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history together. With an introduction by A S... Buy or find out more→
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
$23.95 – Paperback / Icon Books Ltd
Explores how our brains learnt to read. This work presents a discussion ranging from the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is making us 'stupider', and why dyslexia can be... Buy or find out more→
Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
$29.95 – Paperback / Palgrave USA
In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize intelligence of our ancestors, who had bigger brains than humans living... Buy or find out more→
The Private Life of the Brain
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstacy or experience road rage? During intense emotion, we can literally lose our minds, returning to the mental state we experienced as infants. This... Buy or find out more→
The Brain That Changes Itself
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A new discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. We see a woman... Buy or find out more→
Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read
$23.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
A renowned cognitive neuroscientist's fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading. How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this... Buy or find out more→
Brain Rules For Baby How To Raise A Smart And Happy Child From Zero To Five
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Why are some babies easy and others fussy - and how to get an easy one? What's the single most important thing a parent can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a baby's brain? John Medina shares what science says... Buy or find out more→
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller. Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like that... Buy or find out more→
Mind Of The Market Compassionate Apes Competitive Humans Andother Tales From Evolutionary Economics
$39.00 – Hardback
How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of... Buy or find out more→