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The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence
David Adam
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Description for The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JMRN; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
You could be a genius . . . In The Genius Within, award-winning science writer David Adam reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence - making you smarter, sharper and brighter than you ever thought you could be. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? Sunday Times bestseller Dr David Adam, author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works - to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent. Sharing his own experiments with revolutionary smart drugs and electrical brain stimulation, he delves into the sinister history of intelligence tests, meets savants and brain hackers and reveals how he boosted his own IQ to cheat his way into Mensa. Going to the heart of how we consider, measure and judge mental ability, The Genius Within asks difficult questions about the science that could rank and define us, and inevitably shape our future. 'Witty, sharp and enlightening . . . This book will make you smarter' Adam Rutherford, science writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4's Inside Science.
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509804993
SKU
V9781509804993
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About David Adam
Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. He was named Feature Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers, and has reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle.
Reviews for The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence
What if you could zap your head or take a pill, like Bradley Cooper in the film Limitless, and become insanely clever? Over the last decade, this sci-fi possibility has started to approach reality, and David Adam's book is a timely prologue to the brave new world that might await us...Fascinating.
The Guardian
A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our understanding of the intricate complexities of mental ill-health
The Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop [A] fascinating study of the living nightmare that is obsessive compulsive disorder . . . one of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work
Matt Haig, Observer, on The Man Who Couldn't Stop A fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers . . . It will make you think again
Sunday Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop Quite simply book of the year, on living with OCD: just buy it now
Adam Rutherford on The Man Who Couldn't Stop A breezily written pop science book about the quest to find out about what intelligence is and how it can be boosted.
Robbie Millen
The Sunday Times
Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter
Adam Rutherford
The Guardian
A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our understanding of the intricate complexities of mental ill-health
The Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop [A] fascinating study of the living nightmare that is obsessive compulsive disorder . . . one of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work
Matt Haig, Observer, on The Man Who Couldn't Stop A fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers . . . It will make you think again
Sunday Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop Quite simply book of the year, on living with OCD: just buy it now
Adam Rutherford on The Man Who Couldn't Stop A breezily written pop science book about the quest to find out about what intelligence is and how it can be boosted.
Robbie Millen
The Sunday Times
Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter
Adam Rutherford