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From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears and explain how the brain works. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons about the human mind from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a “lizard brain” and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behavior. Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humor, and important implications for human nature—a gift of a book that you will want to savor again and again. What other brain myths will be busted, and what new discoveries await inside? Body Budgeting: Discover your brain’s most important job—and why it isn’t thinking. Learn how your brain manages a complex budget for your body to keep you alive and well. A Predictive Brain: Find out why your brain doesn’t react to the world but actively predicts it, constructing your experience of reality from inside a dark, silent box. One Brain, Not Three: Dismiss popular but incorrect myths like the 'lizard brain' and the supposed battle between thoughts and emotions once and for all. Socially Wired: Understand how your brain works in tandem with other brains, constantly affecting and being affected by the people around you in surprising ways.

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This book speaks to brain buffs, self-obsessed neurotics, barstool psychologists, mystified parents, grumpy spouses, exasperated managers, and anyone who enjoys speculating and gossiping about the motivations and behaviors of other human beings. Steven Johnson shows us the transformative power of understanding brain science and offers new modes of introspection and tools for better parenting, better relationships, and better living.

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From bestselling author Elise Gravel comes a book that celebrates our beautiful brains. Through her trademark quirky monster characters, author Elise Gravel shows the amazing things that our brains can do. They work with our senses and control our bodies. Brains do our thinking and are where our emotions live. And just like no two bodies are alike, no two brains are either. Brains learn and do things in different ways - and that's okay. It's My Brain celebrates everyone's amazing and unique brain. The best one is the one that belongs to you . . . so take good care of it!

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The social world is complicated. So are tweens and teens. They typically don’t want to be told what to do yet still struggle to solve their problems independently. As social learners, they need guidance and support in a way that feels right and makes sense to them. Sometimes with humor but always encouraging them to learn how the social world works so they can logically learn new social competencies to help them meet their own goals. This collection provides a range of information, visual supports, hands-on strategies, and tools to best meet their needs and developmental ages. The social mind is dynamic. It changes and evolves continuously throughout the tween and teen years as kids begin to forge a stronger sense of self. But as they age, the social world also expands in its complexity. Expectations for how a child makes sense of the social world, socially responds, and acts and reacts seem to shift and transform suddenly as more sophisticated social landscapes emerge on the horizon. The upshot? The older the kid, the more to teach and students to learn in their development of social and organizational competencies. This Tweens & Teens Bundle showcases a variety of ways to introduce and explore the multifaceted aspects of the social world based on a wide range of individuals’ social, emotional, and academic learning needs and their developmental ages. Inside the bundle: Brain Hacks – Graphic Novel Thinksheets for Brain Hacks The Feelings Scale Social Situation Mapping Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens The Social Media Workbook for Teens Social Thinking and Me Two-Book Set Socially Curious and Curiously Social 3rd Edition Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Edition for Teens Healthy Relationships: A Guided Journal for Teens  

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The True Story of How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Used Brain Science to Help Children with Learning Disabilities Did you know our brain is plastic?!That's right: because "plastic" means it can change. She created her own brain improvement program, and opened the Arrowsmith School in 1980 to bring the program to other students. Today there are over 100 schools offering the program around the world. The program can also help adults who have brain injuries from stroke or accidents. This book shows how children with learning disabilities and people who have suffered brain injuries can change their brains.

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In How to ADHD, award-winning YouTuber Jessica McCabe reveals the tools that have changed her life while offering an unflinching look at the realities of living with ADHD. The key to navigating a world not built for the neurodivergent brain, she discovered, isn't to fix or fight against its natural tendencies but to understand and work with them. She explains how ADHD affects everyday life, covering executive function impairments, rejection sensitivity, difficulties with attention regulation, and more. You'll also find ADHD-specific strategies for adapting your environment, routines, and systems. With quotes from McCabe's online community, chapter summaries, and reading shortcuts designed for the neurodivergent reader, How to ADHD will help you recognize your strengths and challenges, tackle "bad brain days," and be kinder to yourself in the process.

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How to Be a Brain Executive is an innovative workbook for children, ages nine through twelve, designed to support the understanding and management of sensory patterns. This book empowers young readers and their families, through the use of engaging concepts and child-friendly language, to apply the neuroscience of sensory modulation to increase self-understanding and to make functional changes that support engagement and well-being.

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The Train Your Brain Card Deck gives trauma survivors tangible, body-based interventions to retrain the brain and release themselves from the effects of trauma. Developed by trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, the techniques in the deck target 5 areas of the brain to help trauma survivors: reduce anxiety and reactivity, develop greater body awareness, boost memory and concentration, regulate strong emotions, improve self-esteem.

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Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days. This book shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"--serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help your reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to live a happier, healthier life

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(Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five De. John Medina shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to five. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control. This book bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice, and unravels how a child's brain develops - and what you can do to optimize it.

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Winner of six awards: Academics’ Choice “Smart Book” Award; PubWest Book Design Gold Award; Mom’s Choice Gold Award; Moonbeam Silver Award, Nautilus Silver Award, and The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, this book is a sequel to The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain "Did you know you can stretch and grow your own brain? Or making mistakes helps your brain learn? Just like how lifting weights helps your muscles get stronger, trying new things without giving up strengthens your brain. An excellent choice.

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This book explores the fascinating advances that have been made in neuroscience, from the intricacies of memory and intelligence, to the enigmatic workings behind our sense of humor and our dreams. Full of illuminating illustrations and diagrams, this book lifts the lid on how drugs affect the brain; the science behind addiction; how the brain deals with trauma and pain; and how love, age and sex affect the brain. Finally, there is insight into cutting-edge scientific theories. The Secret Life of the Brain is written in accessible language for all readers who want to know more about a complex science.

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