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Pleasures of the Brain (Series in Affective Science) 1st Edition

by Morten L. Kringelbach (Editor), Kent C. Berridge (Editor)
4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0195331028
ISBN-10: 0195331028
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Product Details

  • Series: Series in Affective Science
  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (September 8, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195331028
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195331028
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 0.9 x 7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,732,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best book in the field, but please don't buy it
By shanusmagnus on March 8, 2013
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
If you want a one-volume survey of the current thinking about what pleasure is, what it does, and its neural analogues, this is the best book there is. I came to it after spending a ton of time digging through papers by the authors collected therein, and finally said to hell with it, I'll just drop the cash and get them all in one edited volume. If you want a rigorous scientific perspective on this topic you just can't do better than this book, although Panksepp's "Affective Neuroscience" is a worthwhile secondary volume which attempts a more ambitious synthesis.

Anyway, that being said, I beg you not to buy it.

You know how for most of the products Amazon sells there will be a variety of reviews that, you know, actually review the product, and then up pops some dunce who says something like "I think the mailman dropped the package in the mud, because the corner had soaked up water, so I'm only giving it one star." Well, here's my version: books nowadays, even hardcover books like this one that you pay an exorbitant amount of money for, are of such crap quality that there's just no point in owning them. When I opened the mailing envelope and cracked the book open to look through it, the binding instantly split. For this much money I expected a sewn binding, so that the book could (I'm such a dreamer) actually be opened and read without the spine cracking and pages falling out. But nope. That would have cost an extra fifty cents or something. Money doesn't grow on trees.

So my question to you is what is even the point of producing a physical product that cannot fulfill the single function it's meant to provide?Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsReview on Pleasures of the Brain from An Undergraduate Student Perspective
By Susie Lee on October 10, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Informative, insightful, and comprehensive, Pleasures of the Brain was quite the pleasure to read; if you could insert a microinjection and scan my brain, you might have seen my orbitofrontal cortex light up while reading it. However, it is not a light read by any means for the average person. The following is a synopsis and review of the book from an undergraduate student's perspective, including positive highlights as well as personal inhibitions about it.

At first glance, I was a little overwhelmed at the style and structure of the book. It seemed as if each chapter was structured the same exact way that a scientific paper would be, so it looked like a collection of nineteen scientific papers written by experts on the topic of pleasure and hedonic experiences. However, by the end of reading it, my overall opinion of the book was that it was a fantastic book for the purposes of what I needed it for, which was as a textual resource for a research project on the relationship between pain and pleasure. Packed with information, this book does appeal to an audience of a higher education, particularly in graduate school or other scientists. Although it had the consistent technical jargon of a scientific approach to the topic, the book had an interesting and at times, a bit unsettling characteristic, which was the fact that the style of the writing tended to differ from chapter to chapter (or paper to paper, you could say) due to each chapter being written by different scientists. These different scientists tended to focus on different aspects of pleasure, some from a purely neuroanatomical perspective whereas others took on a more psychological or metaphysical approach.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book
By Frederick M. Toates on August 17, 2013
Format: Hardcover
I can strongly recommend this very-well produced and written book. Kringelbach and Berridge are both highly regarded scientists of international standing.
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