Product Description: Book by Ornstein, Robert

Product Description: This book is the third in Hoopoe Book's ALL ABOUT ME series. In it readers will look at how people (from our parents to our peers) and media (from advertising to the internet) try to influence us. In many situations we are influenced to think, feel or behave in ways we might not usually do...read more

Product Description: Me and My Memory is a book for teens and young adults about how we remember and forget. Memory is an important part of what makes us human - giving us a past, illuminating the present and orienting us to the future -  memory helps us understand who we are...read more

Product Description: Meditation and Modern Psychology, by the renowned psychologist, Robert Ornstein, examines meditation from two perspectives: first, from the perspective of religions and philosophies such as Zen, Yoga and from the perspectives of the Sufis and Christian mystics; and then from the modern psychologist's point of view -- what is happening neurophysiologically during and after meditation? By looking at meditation from both points of view, Ornstein produces a modern scientific synthesis – one sympathetic to the practice of meditation – enabling the reader to appreciate and understand meditation as a tool which can lead to a different mode of perception...read more

A celebrated psychologist and author of The Origins of Consciousness discusses the different capabilities of the right and left sides of the brain, shedding new light on the ways in which the brain constructs a coherent life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions

The host of the popular science series on public television, 'Connections,' and a psychologist trace the advantages and dangers of human inventions and argue that the time has come to turn away from specialized, technological knowledge. 35,000 first printing.

Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use

Traces the blessings and curses of mankind's inventions, arguing that the time has come to rethink their use.

Product Description: This study of Shakespeare's comedies received the University of Delaware Press Award for best manuscript in the field of Shakspearean Literature and was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book. Unusual in scope, it is not limited to the plays of a particular period...read more