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  • The Pattern Seekers

    How Autism Drives Human Invention

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Science of Evil

    On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil” (New York Times).How can we explain both cruelty and kindness? To award-winning psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the explanation for cruelty is low levels of empathy, and the explanation for kindness is high levels of empathy. In The Science of Evil, Baron-Cohen ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Pattern Seekers

    How Autism Drives Human Invention

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Science of Evil

    On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 58 min

    Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common—lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world.In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Jews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons

    by Simon Cohen ...
    As the so-called 'antisemitism crisis' in the UK Labour Party hardens into an unassailable 'truth,' it becomes more important to challenge it. This book is the voice of a Jewish person saying 'no' to it; saying 'no' to the political leveraging of antisemitism which was part of a patchwork of disinformation largely designed to eradicate the possibility and hope of a deep seated change from a ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Autism and Asperger Syndrome

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    Series series The Facts
    In this new book Simon Baron-Cohen summarizes the current understanding of autism and Asperger Syndrome. He explains the process of diagnosis, as well as the options for education and intervention for those with these conditions. Taking a lifespan approach, Professor Baron-Cohen considersa how the conditions affect very young children through to adulthood. He also outlines his new Empathizing ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD

  • The Essential Difference

    Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    We all appreciate that there are differences in the typical psychology of men and women. Yet underlying these subtle differences, Simon Baron-Cohen believes, there is one essential difference, and it affects everything we do: Men have a tendency to analyze and construct systems while women are inclined to empathize. With fresh evidence for these claims, Baron-Cohen explores how these sex ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Karma and Rafe

    The Galatian Exchange, Book 1

    by Pepper Pace ...
    Narrated by Simone Rothschild, Steven Jay Cohen ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Galatian Exchange

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Corruption runs rampant even in a not-so-distant future where the biggest lottery is rigged so that the only winners are rich and white.In a world that has been ravaged by a destructive alien attack, an opportunity for a lifetime of riches in exchange for serving as consort to one of the alien defenders is indeed a great prize. Down on her luck, Karma will be the first Black consort, despite ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Creative Destruction

    Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

    by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel ...
    Translated by Jodie Cohen-Tanugi ...
    Hayek Book Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • LEGO®-Based Therapy

    How to build social competence through LEGO®-based Clubs for children with autism and related conditions

    by Daniel B. LeGoff, Simon Baron-Cohen, GW Krauss, Georgina Gomez De La Gomez De La Cuesta ...
    This complete guide to LEGO® Therapy contains everything you need to know in order to set up and run a LEGO® Club for children with autism spectrum disorders or related social communication difficulties and anxiety conditions.By providing a joint interest and goal, LEGO® building can become a medium for social development such as sharing, turn-taking, making eye-contact, and following social rules ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Completely Revised and Updated

    Advice, Support, Insight, and Inspiration

    by Patricia Romanowski Bashe, Barbara L. Kirby ...
    Asperger Syndrome has become an increasingly common disorder. One in 300 individuals may have AS—exhibiting characteristics such as average to high intelligence, obsessive behavior, intense special interests, and difficulty dealing with everyday social situations—and it is now more prevalent than childhood cancer and Down’s syndrome.As the mother of a boy diagnosed with AS in 1994, Barbara Kirby ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Material Ecocriticism

    by David Abram, Joni Adamson, Jane Bennett, Eli Clare, Stacy Alaimo, Hannes Bergthaller, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Simon Estok, Heather I. Sullivan, Catherine Rigby, Dana Phillips, Timo Maran, Cheryll Glotfelty, Greta Gaard, Lowell Duckert, Wendy Wheeler, Hubert Zapf, Timothy Morton, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands ...
    Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD