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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Douglas Hofstadter ,

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Superintelligence

By Nick Bostrom ,

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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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Inside of a Dog

By Alexandra Horowitz ,

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The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind
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The Scientist in the Crib

By Andrew N. Meltzoff , Alison Gopnik , Patricia K. Kuhl

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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
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The Gap

By Thomas Suddendorf ,

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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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Why Don't Students Like School?

By Daniel Willingham ,

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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
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Out of Our Minds

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto ,

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In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind
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In the Theater of Consciousness

By Bernard J. Baars ,

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Felt Time: The Science of How We Experience Time
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Felt Time

By Marc Wittmann , Marc Wittmann , Erik Butler (translator)

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Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View
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Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing

By Michael D. Kirchhoff , Julian Kiverstein ,

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Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
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Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

By Anthony Chemero ,

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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
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Believing in Magic

By Stuart A. Vyse ,

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Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will
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Free

By Alfred R. Mele ,

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The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
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The Robot's Rebellion

By Keith E. Stanovich ,

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Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
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Vision

By David Marr ,

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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
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How Things Shape the Mind

By Lambros Malafouris ,

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The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
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The Body in the Mind

By Mark Johnson ,

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The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
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The Mathematician's Mind

By Jacques Hadamard ,

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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
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Things That Make Us Smart

By Donald A. Norman , Tamara Dunaeff ,

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Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs - An Antidote for Short-Termism
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Longpath

By Ari Wallach ,

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Eyewitness Testimony: With a New Preface
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Eyewitness Testimony

By Elizabeth F. Loftus ,

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Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
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Remembering

By Frederic C. Bartlett ,

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The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters: Science, Practice, and Policy
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The Psychology of Police Deadly Force Encounters

By Laurence Miller ,

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On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
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On Combat

By Dave Grossman , Loren W Christensen ,

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The Science of False Memory
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The Science of False Memory

By C. J. Brainerd (editor) , V. F. Reyna (editor) ,

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The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
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The Meaning of the Body

By Mark Johnson ,

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UX Magic
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UX Magic

By Daniel Rosenberg ,

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Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
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Powerful Teaching

By Pooja K. Agarwal , Patrice M. Bain ,

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Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
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Head First Design Patterns

By Eric Freeman , Elisabeth Robson , Kathy Sierra , Bert Bates

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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

By Raphael Lyne ,

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The Psychology Of Everyday Things
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The Psychology Of Everyday Things

By Don Norman ,

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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
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Farsighted

By Steven Johnson ,

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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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Ways of Being

By James Bridle ,

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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
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The Experience Machine

By Andy Clark ,

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Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It
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Language at the Speed of Sight

By Mark Seidenberg ,

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The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution
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The Mind's New Science

By Howard Gardner ,

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Guitar Zero
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Guitar Zero

By Gary Marcus ,

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Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
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Sweet Anticipation

By David Huron ,

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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
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Religion Explained

By Pascal Boyer ,

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Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
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Philosophy In The Flesh

By George Lakoff , Mark Johnson ,

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