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  • Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors

    Religion and the History of the CIA

    by Michael Graziano ...
    Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Spaces Between Us

    A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature

    by Michael Graziano ...
    Each of us has a protected zone two or three feet wide, swelling around the head and narrowing towards the feet. This zone isn't fixed in size: if you're nervous, it grows; if you're relaxed, it shrinks. It also depends on your cultural upbringing. Personal space is small in Japan and large in Australia. This safety zone, called personal space, provides an invisible spatial scaffold that frames ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Intelligent Movement Machine

    An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System

    by Michael Graziano ...
    In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex. The action repertoire of an animal is highly dimensional, whereas the cortical sheet is two-dimensional. Rendering the action space onto the cortex therefore results in ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Consciousness and the Social Brain

    by Michael S. A. Graziano ...
    What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Consciousness and the Social Brain

    by Michael S. A. Graziano ...
    What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Rethinking Consciousness

    A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

    by Michael S A Graziano ...
    “A first-class intellectual adventure.” —Brian Greene, author of Until the End of TimeIlluminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema theory, Michael S. A. Graziano traces the evolution of the mind over millions of years, with examples from the natural world, to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention and then to construct ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Rethinking Consciousness

    A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

    by Michael S. A. Graziano ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Michael S. A. Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritizing them, and responding as necessary.Then some animals ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Genotoxicity and Carcinogenicity Testing of Pharmaceuticals

    Edited by Michael J. Graziano, David Jacobson-Kram ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the nonclinical testing strategies that are used to asses and de-risk the genotoxicity and carcinogenicity properties of human pharmaceuticals. It includes a review of relevant ICH guidelines, numerous case studies where follow-up studies were conducted to further investigate positive findings, and practical considerations for the use of alternative and emerging ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Decentering Discussions on Religion and State

    Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives

    by Douglas H. Garrison, Tadeusz Kugler, Michael Graziano, James Tackach, Debra A. Mulligan, Matt McCook, Nicole Breault, Ryan M. Hammack, Jordan E. Miller, Kristen Shedd, Paul S. Rowe, Blake A. Ellis, Louise M. Doire, Marko Vekovic, Daniel J. Daly, Hannibal Travis ...
    This volume explores dynamic conversations through history between individuals and communities over questions about religion and state. Divided into two sections, our authors begin with considerations on the separation of religion and state, as well as Roger Williams’ concept of religious freedom. Authors in the first half consider nuanced debates centered on emerging narratives, with particular ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Spy Chiefs: Volume 1

    Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom

    by Christopher Moran, Mark Stout, Ioanna Iordanou, Michael Graziano, Matthew H. Fay, James Lockhart0, Andrew Hammond1, Betsy Rohaly Smoot2, David Hatch3, Richard J. Aldrich4, Michael S. Goodman5, Rory Cormac6, Danny Steed7, Michael L. VanBlaricum8, Joseph Oldham9 ...
    In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence?This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Powerhouse Voices

    Amazing Experiences on Clubhouse

    by Naleighna Kai, Mary B. Morrison, Ehryck Gilmore, Natasha Graziano,, Kara Allan, Stephanie M. Freeman, Maria Alejandra Munoz, J. L. Woodson, Michael Graziano, Laura Bilotta,, La Ammitai, Erin Hernandez-Reisner, D. M. Woods, Jodeen Bergstrom, Cynthia Fontaine, Jackie Minsky, Mou Bhattacharya, Charles Myambo ...
    Series series Volume 1
    In the middle of an unexpected experience that impacted everyone across the world; a new audio-only app burst on the social media scene and connected people from all genders, ethnicities, and social status in a way no one thought possible.Celebrities, influencers, CEOs, authors, politicians, artists, stylists, and leading entrepreneurs emerged as dynamic voices that freely shared their wealth of ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Read more

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