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Author: David Adam
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Imprint: Pegasus Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781681776743
ISBN 10: 168177674
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 06 February 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A searing account. Adam [writes] with honesty, compassion and even humor about a malady so often stigmatized and caricatured. A compelling portrait. This is the most comprehensive and compassionate book on OCD to date, and it offers hope that our thinking and behavior both individual and collective can change. A fine journalistic account of how science can make you smarter. Adam delivers a sensible, often skeptical review of his subject. Adam is a companionable Virgil . . . explaining scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical prose. Writing in an imminently accessible style, Adam treats readers to countless fascinating anecdotes, such as the advent of the IQ test. A fun and at times disturbing romp through the history of brain science and society's attempts to measure intelligence. If cognitive enhancement is in our future, this is an entertaining place to begin to understand what it entails.
Adam is a companionable Virgil . . . explaining scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical prose.--Scott Stossel A searing account. Adam [writes] with honesty, compassion and even humor about a malady so often stigmatized and caricatured. A compelling portrait. This is the most comprehensive and compassionate book on OCD to date, and it offers hope that our thinking and behavior both individual and collective can change.
A compelling portrait. This is the most comprehensive and compassionate book on OCD to date, and it offers hope that our thinking and behavior both individual and collective can change. A fine journalistic account of how science can make you smarter. Adam delivers a sensible, often skeptical review of his subject. A searing account. Adam [writes] with honesty, compassion and even humor about a malady so often stigmatized and caricatured. Adam is a companionable Virgil . . . explaining scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical prose. Writing in an imminently accessible style, Adam treats readers to countless fascinating anecdotes, such as the advent of the IQ test. A fun and at times disturbing romp through the history of brain science and society's attempts to measure intelligence. If cognitive enhancement is in our future, this is an entertaining place to begin to understand what it entails. The Genius Within moves out of the medical world and into schools and workplaces, bringing us to the cutting edge of neuroenhancement.
Author Information
Dr. David Adam, author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, is an editor at Nature. The Man Who Couldn't Stop was the winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite Award, was a Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, and was the recipient of the International OCD Foundation's Illumination Award. David has reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China, and the depths of the Amazon jungle. He lives in England.
