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Field Guide to Lies by Daniel Levitin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The bestselling author of The Organized Mind explains and debunks statistics in the information age We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting pol ...Show more
Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power by Daniel Levitin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC AND THE ORGANISED MIND Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviours. That is why we can remember s ...Show more
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
We have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with deterioration. Yet, recent studies show that our decision-making skills improve as we age and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our brains as we get older?More of us are living into our eighties than ever ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo ...Show more
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world where the line between truth and lies is increasingly blurred by euphemistic terms such as 'post-truth', 'counter-knowledge', 'fringe theories' and others. In a world w ...Show more
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