David Adam

The Genius Within

Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

You could be a genius . . . Award-winning science writer reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence â making you smarter, sharper and brighter than you ever thought you could be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 69693
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781509805020
• ISBN-10: 1509805028
• Artikelnr.: 54276166

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

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 Acknowledgements
ii: Acknowledgements Section
iii: References

Rezensionen

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