David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford
University. His scientific research is published in journals
from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of
the internationally bestselling books Sum and Incognito. He is the
writer and presenter of the companion BBC television
series The Brain.
www.eagleman.com
"An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind....
structured around crucial and wide-ranging questions, saturated
with personal and social relevance. And Eagleman’s answers are
consistently clear, engaging
and thought-provoking." —Nature
"David Eagleman's wide-ranging roundup of the current state of
knowledge about the brain is concise, accessible and often very
surprising. It's a strange new world inside your head.” —Brian
Eno
"David Eagleman’s The Brain its an astonishing read. On every page
there is a revelation so fantastic as to make one gasp. It would be
impossible to take in if we didn’t all possess that impossibly
extraordinary thing, a brain. Eagleman comes closer than anyone to
solving the mystery of how to find the self inside the grey
electric mush between our ears.” —Stephen Fry
"David Eagleman makes it easy to comprehend the most complex
collection of cells in the Cosmos— our brain. If neuroscience had a
rock legend this would be him.” —Ruby Wax
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