{"title":"David Eagleman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-brain-story-of-you-david-eagleman-paperback","title":"The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman - Non Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9781782116615\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Canongate Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Brain: The Story of You is a compelling paperback exploration of the human mind from bestselling neuroscientist David Eagleman. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Eagleman investigates how three pounds of tissue create memory, emotion, perception, and the sense of self. Written for curious general readers, the book blends hard science with storytelling, taking readers from extreme sports to criminal courtrooms and artificial intelligence, in search of what makes you \"you\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCompanion to Eagleman's Emmy-nominated PBS\/BBC television series of the same name, this book distills neuroscience into an accessible narrative. Each chapter tackles a facet of identity and cognition: how memories are constructed and reconstructed, why time perception bends under fear or boredom, how vision and reality are brain-generated illusions, and how personality can shift after injury or disease. Eagleman uses vivid case studies, from Olympic athletes and murder trials to patients whose brain damage transformed their personalities, to show how flexible identity really is. The book confronts big philosophical questions too, including free will, moral responsibility, and what brain-machine interfaces might mean for the future of consciousness. Throughout, Eagleman argues the brain is not a fixed organ but a live, rewriting network shaped constantly by experience and biology. The result is scientifically rigorous yet written with warmth, humour, and a gift for analogy that makes complex neuroscience genuinely enjoyable. Whether picked up for academic interest or a love of popular science, this paperback offers a thought-provoking journey into what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccessible, jargon-free introduction to modern neuroscience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten by an award-winning Stanford neuroscientist and bestselling author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompanion book to the acclaimed PBS\/BBC television series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores memory, perception, identity, and free will through real case studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal gift for science enthusiasts, students, and book clubs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLightweight paperback format, perfect for reading on the go\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nDavid Eagleman is a neuroscientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University, and an internationally bestselling author. He wrote and presented The Brain, an Emmy-nominated PBS\/BBC television series exploring what it means to be human from a neuroscientist's perspective. His research spans time perception, vision, synesthesia, and neurolaw, and his other books include Livewired, Incognito, Sum, and The Runaway Species. He also hosts the chart-topping Inner Cosmos podcast, bringing neuroscience to a wide audience with clarity and enthusiasm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy You'll Love This Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA brilliantly readable guide to the organ that makes you who you are, this paperback combines rigorous science with page-turning storytelling, perfect for anyone fascinated by the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Note: Cover shown is the UK edition; ISBN and edition may vary slightly from images due to publisher reprints.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Eagleman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44459901026541,"sku":"SNG1952","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/4549\/8093\/files\/the-brain-story-of-you-david-eagleman-paperback.jpg?v=1784334100"},{"product_id":"sum-forty-tales-from-the-afterlives-david-eagleman-paperback","title":"Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman - Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9781847674272\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Canongate Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a dazzlingly inventive collection of short fiction from neuroscientist and bestselling author David Eagleman. In just over a hundred pages, Eagleman imagines forty entirely different versions of what might await us after death, each a miniature parable exploring identity, memory, morality and the strange nature of being human. Playful, unsettling and endlessly inventive, this slim paperback has become a modern classic of speculative short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat happens to us when we die? David Eagleman doesn't offer a single answer — he offers forty. In one afterlife, God turns out to be the size of a microbe, entirely unaware of your existence. In another, you are split into every age you've ever been, living simultaneously as your five-year-old and eighty-year-old self. Elsewhere, the afterlife is populated only by the people you actually remembered while alive, meaning some souls are crowded with company and others are nearly alone. Some tales are rebuilt from your credit-card records; others force you to live alongside every version of yourself that you might have become. Each vignette is short — most just two or three pages — yet lands with the precision of a fable, using the afterlife as a lens to examine free will, consciousness, love, regret and what it means to be alive. Eagleman's background as a neuroscientist gives the collection an unusual rigour beneath its whimsy. 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