Hardcover with dust jacket. Pictorial DJ is crisp and clean. Book is bound in blue paper over boards with light blue cloth and gold lettering over the spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. Pages have a slight tone throughout, but are otherwise crisp and clean. 274 pages. SIGNED BY JOHNSON on the first blank page. Scribner. No publication date on the title page. Copyright page is dated 2004. Complete number line reads "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2". Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

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Title

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life [Signed by Author]

Publisher

Scribner

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

0743241657

ISBN 13

9780743241656

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A tour of today's cutting-edge brain research challenges readers to reevaluate the essence of human personality and fate, explaining how the brain predicts and processes events, describing breakthroughs in biofeedback technology, citing the sources of creativity and ideas, and offering insight into brain neurochemistry. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Steven Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, which was named as a finalist for the 2002 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2001, as well as a "best book of the year" in Discover, Esquire, The Washington Post, and The Village Voice. He writes the monthly "Emerging Technology" column for Discover and is a contributing editor at Wired. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Guardian. He is also the author of Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. Johnson holds a B.A. in semiotics from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Columbia. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.

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