David Adam

The Genius Within

Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence

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Produktbeschreibung

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 147mm x 223mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781509804993
• ISBN-10: 1509804994
• Artikelnr.: 47842443

Autorenporträt

Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. He was named Feature Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers, and has reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle.

Inhaltsangabe

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o Introduction - i: Introduction
* Chapter - 1: Our Brain Revolution
* Chapter - 2: Mensa Material
* Chapter - 3: A Problem of Intelligence
* Chapter - 4: Treating and Cheating
* Chapter - 5: Pills and Skills
* Chapter - 6: The Mutual Autopsy Society
* Chapter - 7: Born with Brains
* Chapter - 8: Current Thinking
* Chapter - 9: The Man Who Learned to Cry
* Chapter - 10: The Brain and Other Muscles
* Chapter - 11: The Little Girl Who Could Draw
* Chapter - 12: The Genius Within
* Chapter - 13: The Happiest Man on Death Row
* Chapter - 14: On the Brain Train
* Chapter - 15: Faster, Stronger, Smarter
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o Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements
o Section - iii: References

Rezensionen

Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter Adam Rutherford