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Brain Tricks: Coping With Your Defective Brain (Paperback)

by David L. Weiner (Author) "It was not yet 7:30 A.M. on a warm Sunday morning in August..." (more)
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Offers tricks for coaxing the old brain hard drive into processing our new brain software. It's a good read.

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...says a lot about how you respond to the strong drives that influence us from our emotional, impulsive side of the brain, versus the thoughtful, analytical side.

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Paperback: 358 pages
Publisher: Prometheus Books (March 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0879759895
ISBN-13: 978-0879759896
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Number One, Henry Heiman, Essie Beecroft, United States, Sunnyday Home, Roy Sanders, Elsa Dixon, Ilyich Barkeloff, Number Two, Andrew Hill, Comrade Barkeloff, Carl Ullman, Good God, Higher Being, Lake Michigan, Number Six, Professor Atwood, Roger Steele

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The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 43
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph (Penguin Literary Biographies) by Edgar Johnson on page 294
On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 43
Julius Caesar by Michael Grant on page 35
The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx on page 216

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5.0 out of 5 stars this is a very good book...., January 26, 2005

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and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in psychological/philosophical aspects. I have to admit that there are some extreme descriptions and the langague are sometimes not very appropriate. Very opne-minded people welcome (Parental advise! or PG-13). But overall, I have learnt a great deal from that book that makes me think...I mean, really think a whole lot different about our world. I am trying to translate this book into my mother langague, and even though it needs sometimes to complete, I am so thrilled at the idea that I help speading these thoughts.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Brain Tricks : Coping With Your Defective Brain, April 23, 2000

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I found this a very difficult book to keep motivated to keep reading. It is written more for the person that deals with various brain studies.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific! Extremely interesting!!, April 3, 1997

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I'm a university student, majoring in psychology and I love anything to do with the brain. I found the site extremely interesting...so much, in fact, that I made three of my friends go to it and check it out.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Jabs at other beleifs from behind a cloak of impartiality.
Mr. Weiner structured the book in a very understandable way, allowing for people of different learning styles to easily take away information. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars A book hoping to expose ones natural societal programming
This is a neat little book written for Laymen. It exposes the brain's unconscious programming and makes you aware of behavior programmed into your brain by evolution.

Published on March 21, 2002 by Shawn Regan

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This book sounded great from the review and abstract, but it was a complete let down. I did not even finish it, therefore, you would be justified in nixing my review of it, but I... Read more

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