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Can I read Main on EtoBox?
Main by Bilinmeyen yazar is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Main about?
This book will shine light on some of the hard-to-reach places in the brain, showing the ways in which we are not the ones driving the boat. Why does the conscious mind know so little? What do visual illusions unmask about the machinery running under the hood? How much of our lives are determined by choices and behaviors that are hard-wired, unconscious, and beyond our control? Do we have any management over who we find gorgeous or repugnant? How is it possible to get angry at yourself: who exactly, is mad at whom? If the drunk Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite and the sober Mel Gibson is authentically apologetic, is there a real Mel Gibson? Why did Supreme Court Justice William Douglas claim that he was able to play football and go hiking, when everyone could see that he was paralyzed after his stroke? Why do people willingly give up their money to banks for Christmas accounts (and why don't monkeys do this)? Why do patients on Parkinson's medications become compulsive gamblers? Why do athletes follow routines, like bouncing the ball three times before taking a free throw? Why did Charles Whitman suddenly kill his family and shoot forty six others from the UT Austin tower, and what did
Who reads Main?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bilinmeyen yazar
- Publisher
- Domingo Yaynevi; Domingo Yayinevi
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- TR
- ISBN
- 9786054729074
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (302 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14