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  • The Englishman

    Memoirs of a Psychobiologist

    by John Staddon ...
    The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist by John Staddon is a reflective and often witty autobiography that traces the author' s unconventional journey from wartime London to academic life in the United States. The early chapters recount his childhood adventures, including quirky schooldays and a stint in colonial Africa, all of which shaped his worldview. The memoir then shifts focus to his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science in an Age of Unreason

    by John Staddon ...
    Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action.Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Science in an Age of Unreason

    by John Staddon ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renowned psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action.Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Scientific Method

    How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work

    by John Staddon ...
    This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work or pretends to work by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology and economics.Scientific Method aims to help curious readers understand the idea of science, not by learning a list of techniques but through examples both historical and contemporary. Staddon affirms that if the reader ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The New Behaviorism

    Foundations of Behavioral Science

    by John Staddon ...
    This ground-breaking book presents a brief history of behaviorism, along with a critical analysis of radical behaviorism, its philosophy and its applications to social issues.This third edition is much expanded and includes a new chapter on experimental method as well as longer sections on the philosophy of behaviorism. It offers experimental and theoretical examples of a new approach to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Malign Hand of the Markets: The Insidious Forces on Wall Street that are Destroying Financial Markets – and What We Can Do About it

    by John Staddon ...
    WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH WALL STREET?And How Do We Fix It?Even after the global financial meltdown of 2008, economists have clung to Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” theory of an always selfregulating market that benefits private and public interests alike. But Duke University professor John Staddon is here to tell that there’s also another, darker force at work on Wall Street—a “Malign Hand” that ... Read more

    $25.29 USD

  • Models of Action

    Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior

    Edited by Clive D.L. Wynne, John E.R. Staddon ...
    This volume presents an international group of researchers who model animal and human behavior--both simple and complex. The models presented focus on such subjects as the pattern of eating in meals and bouts, the energizing and shaping impact of reinforcers on behavior, transitive inferential reasoning, responding to a compound stimulus, avoidance and escape learning, recognition memory, category ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Neural Network Models of Conditioning and Action

    Edited by Michael L. Commons, Stephen Grossberg, John Staddon ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science
    Originally published in 1991, this title was the result of a symposium held at Harvard University. It presents some of the exciting interdisciplinary developments of the time that clarify how animals and people learn to behave adaptively in a rapidly changing environment. The contributors focus on aspects of how recognition learning, reinforcement learning, and motor learning interact to generate ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    The Parasitic Mind

    How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

    by Gad Saad ...
    Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    “Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason.” —JORDAN PETERSONThere’s a war against truth … and if we don’t win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty.The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show The Saad Truth, Dr. Gad Saad exposes ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness

    Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

    by Bernard J. Baars, Nicole M. Gage ...
    Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Second Edition, provides students and readers with an overview of the study of the human brain and its cognitive development.It discusses brain molecules and their primary function, which is to help carry brain signals to and from the different parts of the human body. These molecules are also essential for understanding language, learning, perception, thinking ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality.Is the w... ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook