Автор на основе обследований огромного числа пациентов в области неврологии доходчиво, увлекательно и остроумно объясняет загадочные неврологические и психиатрические симптомы, приходя к выводу о том, что наука о мозге способна разрешать также и классические вопросы философии. Его исследования - это последние достижения в области изучения эволюционного развития мозга.

В.С.Рамачандран рассказывает о своей работе, просвещая и развлекая нас. Книга рассчитана на самый широкий крут читателей..

Вилейанур С.Рамачандран, доктор медицины, доктор философии, является директором Центра мозга и познания, профессором психологии и нейрофизиологии Калифорнийского университета (Сан-Диего), адъюнкт профессором биологии Солковского института. Рамачандран получил медицинское образование, а впоследствии — степень доктора философии в колледже Тринити (Trinity College) Кембриджского университета. Он имеет множество званий и наград, включая звание члена совета Аll Soul's College Оксфордского университета, почетную степень доктора Коннектикутского колледжа, Aliens Kappers золотую медаль Нидерландской королевской академии наук за заметный вклад в нейрофизиологию, золотую медаль Австралийского национального университета и почетное президентское звание Американской академии неврологии Прочел цикл лекций о работе мозга на праздновании двадцатипятилетней годовщины (серебряный юбилей) Общества нейрофизиологов (1995); сделал вступительные доклады на конференции по работе мозга, организованной Национальным институтом психического здоровья (NIMH) в библиотеке Конгресса, на Доркасских* чтениях в Колд-Спринг-Харборе (Cold Spring Harbor), на Адамсовских чтениях в Массачусетской клинике в Гарварде и чтениях, посвященных памяти Джонаса Солка, в Солковском институте».

Рамачандран опубликовал более 120 статей в научных журналах (включая «Scientific American»), Он является автором нашумевшей книги «Phantoms in the Brain» («Фантомы мозга»), которая была переведена на восемь языков и стала основой для двухсерийного фильма на Channel 4 Британского телевидения и на PBS в США. Журнал «Newsweek» недавно назвал его членом «клуба века» — одним из сотни самых выдающихся людей XXI столетия.

Hay momentos donde sentimos que nos hace falta ser perfectos para conseguir lo que queremos, y aquí es donde aparece Alex con su apariencia desaliñada recompensada por inteligencia. La chica de mis sueños muestra comedia, drama, así como romanticismo con el señor Moss; un adonis con mucho dinero y actitud, su apariencia como éxito se muestra irresistible para cualquier mujer. Un mundo donde el agua y aceite se juntan para trabajar, con muchas sorpresas a lo largo de la historia.

Ramachandran propose dans ce livre une réflexion sur ce qui distingue l'humain. S'appuyant sur les conceptions traditionnelles, parfois très anciennes, du « propre de l'homme » (le langage articulé, le rire, le raisonnement abstrait, la conscience de la mort, etc...), il les introduit par la description de cas cliniques rencontrés dans sa carrière et caractérisés par l'altération de ce trait, pour discuter enfin de leurs fondements neurophysiologiques.Le fil conducteur de ce livre est l'idée que le développement des réseaux de neurones miroirs (actifs lorsque le sujet imite le comportement observé chez autrui) constitue le fondement biologique de l'humanisation, qui serait donc une rupture brutale plutôt qu'un continuum allant des primates à l'humain. Il anticipe les critiques en écrivant avec humour : "avant que les créationnistes ne sabrent le champagne, je dois ajouter que cela n'implique aucun miracle."

Subtítulo: Una historia de Palestina La familia Moghrabi ha vivido en Palestina desde hace mucho tiempo. En fechas cercanas a la Primera Guerra mundial, el soldado otomano Kamel Moghrabi es encarcelado por los turcos. Pero se reúne con su familia después de ser liberado por fuerzas británicas, y se casa con su amiga de la infancia, Haniya. Poco les dura este inciso de felicidad ya que su tierra comienza a ser asolada con violencia por la población local árabe y los judíos que emigran de toda Europa. Se frustra toda posibilidad de una Palestina independiente, y la familia de Kamel tiene que dejar el hogar de sus queridos olivares. Tras un exilio de cincuenta años, Hamzi Moghrabi regresa con su hija a la tierra de sus antepasados. La Palestina que él conoció siendo un niño ya no existe. Hamzi rememora la historia de su familia que no es otra que la de su propio pueblo, un pueblo que a pesar de todo sigue manteniendo la esperanza. Basada en hechos reales, El sueño del olivar es una saga familiar que nos brinda una detallada descripción de la vida y cultura en Palestina, con una cálida y conmovedora historia de amor en lo más hondo de sus páginas.

It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.

But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army.

Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.

The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine—a young woman learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been taken from her. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.

In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes, there will be a contest to determine his successor. It is a contest that thin, puny Jebel has no chance of winning.

Humiliated and ashamed, Jebel sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and worse, monstrous men. But to Jebel, the risk is worth it.

To retrieve his honor . . .

To wield unimaginable power . . .

To become . . .

The thin executioner

Inspired by the , international bestselling master of horror Darren Shan takes readers on a thrilling, fast-paced journey into a nightmarish world where compassion and kindness are the greatest crimes of all.

Before Cirque Du Freak…

Before the war with the vampaneze…

Before he was a vampire.

Larten Crepsley was a boy.

As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his brother as an example to the other children.

In that moment, young Larten flies into a rage that the foreman wouldn't survive. Forced on the run, he sleeps in crypts and eats cobwebs to get by. And when a vampire named Seba offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant, Larten takes it.

This is his story.

Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general…Before he was Darren Shan's master…

Before the War of Scars… Larten Crepsley was a teenager. And he was sick of the pomp and circumstance of fusty old vampires telling him what to do. Taking off on his own with his blood brother, Wester, Larten takes off into the world to see what his newly blooded vampire status can get him in the human world. Sucking all he can out of humanity, Larten stumbles into a violent, hedonistic lifestyle, where cheats beckon, power corrupts, and enemies are waiting. This is his story.

Shan’s second book about the City takes place during roughly the same time period as the first (Procession of the Dead, 2010) but features many new characters, only tying together events from both books at the very end of the story. Al Jeery is a dedicated soldier for the Cardinal and happy to do his job until the day he takes a body to the morgue only to discover it is his girlfriend. Asked by the Cardinal to investigate, Al takes on the duty, persevering through a complex and often seemingly impossible investigation. Like Procession of the Dead, this story takes place entirely within Shan’s fictional yet modern-day city, run by the Cardinal, but the plot is constructed in the fashion of a mainstream police procedural. With almost too many twists to believe, dozens of characters, and the complex mythology of the City itself, Hell’s Horizon is not an easy read, yet it may appeal to those who enjoyed China Miéville’s The City & the City.

Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It's the wonderfully gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. Darren — a spider freak — 'falls in love' with Madam Octa — an enormous tarantala owned by the circus proprietor. Darren determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds. But his daring theft goes horrible wrong. The spider bites his best mate and Darren has to sell his soul to an evil vampire to get the antidote. Something out of the ordinary is set against the background of children's normal lives to chilling effect. Atmospheric, funny, realistic, moving and… terrifying.