The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain: The True Story of Your Amazing Brain (Independent Thinking Series) (The Independent Thinking Series)

This delightfully illustrated book is designed to give anyone a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution over 2 billion years ago to the present day. This is the user's manual for your brain that was left out of the box. What it is, how it works, what it looks like, where it came from it's all here in this light-hearted and easy-to-read book. Pick it up and you will never think about your own thinking in quite the same way again. Every action that we undertake, every thought that we entertain, every memory that we hold, every hang-up that we possess, every quirk, and knack- it's all the result of chemistry and electricity working across a network of squishy organic matter that has helped shape life. Don't be fooled by the title as this is really a comprehensive explanation of how and why the brain works, but put together in such a way that anyone from 16 to 60 can understand.