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  • ELUSIVE CURES
    RUST, NICOLE C.
    A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time brain and mental illnesses.Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected. We do not have cures for the vast majority of brain illnesses, from Alzheim...
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  • IN SEARCH OF THE PHOENICIANS
    JOSEPHINE QUINN
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  • LOST IN THOUGHT : THE HIDDEN PLEASURES OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE
    HITZ, ZENA
    An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writ...
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  • HOW WE AGE : THE SCIENCE OF LONGEVITY
    MURPHY, COLEEN T.
    How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human agingAll of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple inverte...
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  • AFTER 1177 B.C. : THE SURVIVAL OF CIVILIZATIONS
    CLINE, ERIC H.
    In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . .. You cannot understand human civilization and self-organization without studying what happened on, before...
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  • THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASSICAL GREECE
    JOSIAH OBER
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  • MEMORY LANE : THE PERFECTLY IMPERFECT WAYS WE REMEMBER
    GREENE, CIARA / MURPHY, GILLIAN
    An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories—and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thriveWe tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Memory Lane introduces readers to the ...
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