Mlodinow, Leonard
Summary: An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 MLOMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: "For millennia, we have viewed thinking and feeling as fundamentally opposed processes. According to this persistent, age-old belief, to truly live well we must marshal our logical and rational capacities to master our emotions. This perceived dichotomy lies at the heart of our historical pursuits in theology, philosophy, and psychology. But extraordinary advances in psychology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 MLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 MLOMlodinow, Leonard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 516.009 MLOMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 MLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind MlodinowMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: Tap into the hidden power of your brain. In this startling and provocative look at how the human mind deals with change, Leonard Mlodinow teaches us to unleash the natural abilities we all possess so we can thrive in these dynamic and troubled times. Truly original minds capitalize when everyone else struggles. And most of us assume that these abilities are innate, reserved for a select few....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 MLOMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: For some, it was that special connection with a grandparent or a football coach, a boss, or a cleric. For a young physicist struggling to find his place in the world, the relationship that would most profoundly influence his life was with his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Shares Feynman's provocative answers to such questions as "What is the nature of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 MLOMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: "A memoir from the author of SUBLIMINAL and THE DRUNKARD'S WALK revealing his relationship with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking as both a fellow scientist and a friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAWKING, STEPHEN MLOMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: An examination of the ways in which the unconscious mind shapes everyday life traces recent scientific advances to reveal the pivotal role of the subliminal mind in influencing experiences and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.2 MLOChopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 201.65 CHOChopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 201.65 CHOHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 523.1 HawkingHawking, Stephen (Stephen W.)
Summary: Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010