Restak, Richard M.
Summary: As an expert on the brain, Dr. Restak knows that in the last five years there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain and its performance. Restak has asked his colleagues: What can I do to help my brain work more efficiently? He combines advice culled from cutting-edge research with brain-tuning exercises to show how individuals of any age can make their brains work more...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 RESWang, Sam
Summary: In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 NEUCall number: DVD 612.8 NEU
Restak, Richard
Summary: These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 612.82 OptimizingZuk, M. (Marlene)
Summary: Explores how the insect world accomplishes tasks with human-like precision in spite of very different mental processes, covering such topics as insect personality, communication, and adaptability.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.715 ZUKSummary: This program explores alternative approaches and explanations of learning, including latent learning, learning sets, insight learning, ethology, social learning, and neuroscience. The program emphasizes the recent move towards a cognitive theory of learning and examines research in this area. The program includes archival film featuring B. F. Skinner and Dr. Robert Epstein, who demonstrated...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact to the launch of Operation Barbarossa, this program explores in detail the efforts of Hitler and Stalin to outwit each other during the so-called period of cooperation lasting from August 1939 to June 1941-and how their mutual distrust wrong-footed them both, with disastrous results for their countries. Numerous quotations from the dictators are included,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006