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The Odd Brain provides fascinating explanations as to why we sometimes experience deja vu, are obsessed by a body flaw, crave chocolate, think we're possessed, think we have a "double" following us, or believe we are invisible. Why is the brain the body's cleanest organ? Why are some people addicted to thrill-seeking or self-mutilation? Are there really vampires and were wolves? What is the Svengali Effect? Savant Syndrome? Capras Disorder? These are some of the 36 strange psychological conditions explained in The Odd Brain.
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9780740761591 | Andrews McMeel Pub, September 1, 2006, cover price $10.95
9780732257248 | Harpercollins Australia, April 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Odd Brain provides fascinating explanations as to why we sometimes experience deja vu, are obsessed by a body flaw, crave chocolate, think we're possessed, think we have a "double" following us, or believe we are invisible.
A study of a momentous scientific breakthrough describes British physician Thomas Willis's first examination of an intact human brain in 1663; the revolutionary discovery that the brain was the central organ that governed the human body, memory, reasoning, and emotion; and the influence of that discovery on modern science. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780743230384 | Free Pr, December 30, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes the first examination of an intact human brain in 1663; the discovery that the brain was the central organ that governed the human body, memory, reasoning, and emotion; and the influence of that discovery on modern science.
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9780743272056 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, June 1, 2005), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Describes the first examination of an intact human brain in 1663; the discovery that the brain was the central organ that governed the human body, memory, reasoning, and emotion; and the influence of that discovery on modern science.
Hardcover:
9780198568766 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 2007), cover price $220.00
Paperback:
9780198568773 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 8, 2007), cover price $75.00
Paperback:
9780393708325 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 20, 2013), cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780801884818 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 16, 2007), cover price $38.00
Paperback:
9780778780748 | Crabtree Pub Co, February 28, 2015, cover price $9.95
Library:
9780778780700 | Crabtree Pub Co, February 28, 2015, cover price $27.60
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