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INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER *New York Times *USAToday *Washington Post *LA Times"Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove of practical, evidence-based guidance for living longer and better."-Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive SUCCESSFUL AGING delivers powerful insights: • Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age • Confirming that "health span"-not "life span"-is what ...

Wir leben in einer Welt der Informationsüberflutung, in der die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und »alternativen« Fakten und halbseidenen Theorien mehr und mehr verschwimmt. Mehr noch, Fake News werden gerade über Social Media gezielt platziert und eingesetzt, um Menschen zu beeinflussen. Doch wie kann man sich heute noch verlässlich informieren, wenn jeder per Klick zum »Experten« werden kann? Wie entkommt man den Filterblasen und entlarvt Falschme...

Winner of the National Business Book AwardFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process-especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to reco...

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today no matter how old you are now. Successful Aging uses research from developmental neu...

A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.

Senza la musica non saremmo quello che siamo. Non è solo uno svago o un hobby da coltivare nel tempo libero: prima ancora del linguaggio, la musica e il ballo hanno rappresentato un potentissimo strumento evolutivo per la specie umana, il bisogno e la capacità - a un tempo primordiale e raffinatissima - di comunicare. Di volta in volta hanno svolto una funzione di collante sociale, veicolo di conoscenza, amore e conforto, stati d'animo, necess...

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more-and faster-decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments...

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For use in schools and libraries only. The neuroscientist author of This Is Your Brain on Music evaluates how the human brain responds to today's information-driven culture, drawing on the latest scientific discoveries to explore how the brain is struggling or adapting in the areas of attention, memory and decision-making.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research a...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process-especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistic...

A fascinating insight into the human obsession with music, this explains why jingles get inside our heads, and why music can offer such emotional experiences. It has been a runaway success in the US, selling 220, 000 copies to date, and was wonderfully reviewed in hardback. 'Levitin's extremely skilled at laying out complex concepts in understandable terms...' Jonathan O'Brien, "Sunday Business Post

The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music's role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that "will leave you awestruck" (The New York Times).Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestsell...