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You & Your Amazing Brain Clive Gifford

You & Your Amazing Brain By Clive Gifford

You & Your Amazing Brain by Clive Gifford


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You & Your Amazing Brain includes a mix of science, history, natural world examples, cultural amusement and astonishing stories all focused on brains, intelligence and learning in humans and even other animals.

You & Your Amazing Brain Summary

You & Your Amazing Brain: A Book of Brains and How They Work by Clive Gifford

Discover everything about how brains work from emotions to actions, reactions and the functioning of the body, in this expansive and inclusive guide.

Brains are fascinating! Why can't you tickle yourself? Why do adults like foods they hated as children? How do some sneaky creatures have the ability to take over the brains of other species?

Answer all these questions and more whilst celebrating the power of your unique brain in You & Your Amazing Brain.

You will discover:

  • What the different parts of the brain are and how they work
  • How memories, speech and sleep work
  • How the human brain develops from birth to adulthood
  • How your brain changes when you become a teenager, and how to understand these changes
  • How the brains of other creatures match up to ours
  • And most of all how every brain works in its own special way
Find out all about your amazing brain in this guide to the most special, and fascinating, organ in your body!

About Clive Gifford

Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK.

Anne Wilson has an MA in illustration from Central St Martins College of Art, London and has been an illustrator for over 15 years. Much of her work is inspired by everyday life, pattern, colour and shape. Born on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, Anne now lives in the much less remote town of Reading, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction

SECTION 1: THE NAKED BRAIN
Brain In A Box
Lobes Of Difference
Nerve Superhighway
Mind Messengers
Making Sense
Out Of Sight
Smart Safari

SECTION 2: MIND MECHANICS
Brain Bonkers
Brainy Building Blocks
My, How You've Grown!
The Teenage Brain
Your Demanding Friend
The Great Memory Game
Thanks For The Memories
Memory Masters
Sleep On It

SECTION 3: I'M WITH STUPID!
Guessing Games
Making Assumptions
Having A Think
Mind Your Language
Intelligence
Problem-Solving
Getting Creative
It's Been Emotional
Managing Emotions
Pleasure And Risk
Fear, Stress and Phobias
Fight Or Flight!
Error Codes
Brain Games

Conclusion
Author's Note
Find Out More
Answers to Brain Games
Glossary
Index

Additional information

NGR9780711283619
9780711283619
0711283613
You & Your Amazing Brain: A Book of Brains and How They Work by Clive Gifford
New
Paperback
Aurum Press
2023-06-08
80
N/A
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