Sandra Blakeslee Bücher

Hainer Kober, geboren 1942, lebt in Soltau. Er hat u. a. Werke von Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Littell, Georges Simenon und Oliver Sacks übersetzt. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran ist Neurowissenschaftler und Direktor des «Center for Brain and Cognition» in San Diego und Professor für Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften an der University of California. Er ist Mitglied im «Century Club» der Newsweek, der die hundert wichtigsten Menschen für die Zukunft Amerikas umfasst. Er lebt in Del Mar, Kalifornien. Oliver Sacks, geboren 1933 in London, war Professor für Neurologie und Psychiatrie an der Columbia University. Er wurde durch die Publikation seiner Fallgeschichten weltberühmt. Nach seinen Büchern wurden mehrere Filme gedreht, darunter «Zeit des Erwachens» (1990) mit Robert de Niro und Robin Williams. Oliver Sacks starb am 30. August 2015 in New York City. Bei Rowohlt erschienen unter anderem seine Bücher «Awakenings – Zeit des Erwachens», «Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte», «Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging», «Der einarmige Pianist» und «Drachen, Doppelgänger und Dämonen». 2015 veröffentlichte er seine Autobiographie «On the Move».

A landmark study of the long-term impact of divorce explores its effects on children into adulthood, marriage, and their own parenthood, revealing how they cope with their own fear of failure in relationships.

Monika Niehaus, Diplom in Biologie, Promotion in Neuro- und Sinnesphysiologie, freiberuflich als Autorin (SF, Krimi, Sachbücher), Journalistin und naturwissenschaftliche Übersetzerin (englisch/französisch) tätig. Mag Katzen, kocht und isst gern in geselliger Runde. Trägerin des Martin-Wieland-Übersetzerpreises 2021.

Based on intensive interviews with 50 couples who consider themselves happily married, this groundbreaking book by the authors of Second Chances offers an entirely fresh vision of this most complex of human relationships, explaining the psychological steps which couples must take to commit to a good marriage.

From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself. Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines. The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness. In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways. Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity.

"Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind." Combining gripping stories and cutting-edge science, V.S. Ramachandran, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, pushes back medicine's last great frontier-the human mind-to address some of the big questions: What is the Self? How do we perceive the world outside us? Why do we laugh?