Friday 11 July 2008

Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter
Mapping the Mind
$25.95,
paperback
978-0-520-22461-2

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8496.php

UK £6.59

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mapping-Mind-Rita-Carter/dp/0753810190

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"Mapping the Mind is an up-to-date, easy to read, gorgeously produced happy hybrid of textbook and coffee table tome....This book is a reminder of the enormous strides knowledge has made in the past three decades....Carter does a good job in describing how over the millions of years of hominid evolution the needs of survival have selected and shaped the features of the nervous system....Having a map is essential for any new journey. Thus Mapping the Mind is a welcome aid."–Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Washington Post"

Rita Carter recounts comprehensively, aided by an abundance of illustrations, what has been discovered about brain structure and function."–Scientific American

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