Your Brain: The Missing Manual
Това е книгата, която си купих от щанда на O’Reilly по време на OpenFest 2009. Книгата е увлекателна и е написа във стил не по различен от ръководството на потребителя на който и да е уред. Не знам дали има или ще има българско издание ако има би трябвало да го очакваме от ЗеСТ Прес. Ето подробно резюме(на английски):
- Brain Food: The right fuel for the brain and how the brain commands hunger (including an explanation of the different chemicals that control appetite and cravings)
- Sleep: The sleep cycle and circadian rhythm, and how to get a good night’s sleep (or do the best you can without it)
- Memory: Techniques for improving your recall
- Reason: Learning to defeat common sense; logical fallacies (including tactics for winning arguments); and good reasons for bad prejudices
- Creativity and Problem-Solving: Brainstorming tips and thinking not outside the box, but about the box — in other words, find the assumptions that limit your ideas so you can break through them
- Understanding Other People’s Brains: The battle of the sexes and babies developing brains
Learn about the built-in circuitry that makes office politics seem like a life-or-death struggle, causes you to toss important facts out of your memory if they’re not emotionally charged, and encourages you to eat huge amounts of high-calorie snacks. With Your Brain: The Missing Manual you’ll discover that, sometimes, you can learn to compensate for your brain or work around its limitations — or at least to accept its eccentricities.
Exploring your brain is the greatest adventure and biggest mystery you’ll ever face. This guide has exactly the advice you need.
Table of Contents
Warming Up
Chapter 1: A Lap Around the Brain
1. A First Look at Your Brain
2. The Brain: An Archeological Site
3. The Brain’s Wiring
4. Mental Fitness
Chapter 2: Brain Food: Healthy Eating
1. The Brain’s Energy Use
2. Brain Fuel
3. A Brain-Friendly Diet
4. The Secret Gears of Appetite
Chapter 3: Sleep: Taking Your Brain Offline
1. Your Biological Clock
2. Why We Sleep
3. The Sleep Cycle
4. REM Sleep
5. Dream Analysis
Exploring Your Brain
Chapter 4: Perception
1. The Doors of Perception
2. Optical Illusions
3. Your Shifty Eyes
4. Distortions and Mismeasurements
5. Seeing Things
6. Ignoring Things
7. Other Perception-Distorting Assumptions
8. Dizzy Yourself Silly with Optical Illusions on the Web
Chapter 5: Memory
1. The Remembrance of Things Past
2. Short-Term Memory
3. Long-Term Memory
4. Techniques for Better Remembering
5. Better Learning
Chapter 6: Emotions
1. Understanding Emotion
2. Pleasure: The Reward System
3. Fear: Avoiding Death
4. Stress
5. In Search of Happiness
Chapter 7: Reason
1. The Thinking Brain
2. Common Sense
3. Moral Calculus
4. Statistical Blunders
5. Critical Thinking
6. Problem Solving
7. Creative Thinking Tools
Chapter 8: Your Personality
1. The Building Blocks of Personality
2. A Personality Test
3. Dissecting Your Personality
4. The Personality Fit
Understanding Other People’s Brains
Chapter 9: The Battle of the Sexes
1. Gender in the Brain
2. Are Gender Differences Real?
3. Love and Relationships
Chapter 10: The Developing Brain
1. Before Birth
2. Childhood
3. The Teenage Years
4. Old Age
5. Nature vs. Nurture
