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This work contains a Foreword by Baroness Susan Greenfield,
Director, Royal Institution of Great Britain, Fullerian Professor
of Physiology, Senior Research Fellow Lincoln College and Honorary
Fellow, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford. This practical,
concise and up-to-date guide is ideal as a quick reference. It is
easy to read, refer to and comprehend - the perfect text to have on
hand in the laboratory. "Laboratory Skills for Science and
Medicine" contains useful equations, overviews of various
techniques, and tips to help research run smoothly. Undergraduate
and postgraduate students of science, medicine and biomedical
science will find this manual invaluable, as will PhD candidates
and researchers returning to laboratory work. 'Becoming a good
biomedical researcher, like everything else in life, doesn't just
happen overnight. Exploring your knowledge and skills base, and the
gaps therein allows you to develop your approach to research in a
systematic and productive manner. By taking advantage of the
experience bundled into this volume, you are giving yourself the
advantage of both an increased factual knowledge and useful
practical applications which will help you on the road to achieving
your goals, whether that is a good first degree, your first
publication, that first grant or a Noble prize! If you want to give
yourself a flying start in your lab career, then this book is for
you.' - Maxine Lintern, in the Introduction.
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York
Times In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into
the urban landscape. For editor Susan Greenfield, however, New York
is the place where a community of resilient, remarkable individuals
are yearning for a voice. Sacred Shelter follows the lives of
thirteen formerly homeless people, all of whom have graduated from
the life skills empowerment program, an interfaith life skills
program for homeless and formerly homeless individuals in New York.
Through frank, honest interviews, these individuals share traumas
from their youth, their experience with homelessness, and the
healing they have discovered through community and faith. Edna
Humphrey talks about losing her grandparents, father, and sister to
illness, accident, and abuse. Lisa Sperber discusses her bipolar
disorder and her whiteness. Dennis Barton speaks about his
unconventional path to becoming a first-generation college student
and his journey to reconnect with his family. The memoirists share
stories about youth, family, jobs, and love. They describe their
experiences with racism, mental illness, sexual assault, and
domestic violence. Each of the thirteen storytellers honestly
expresses his or her brokenheartedness and how finding community
and faith gave them hope to carry on. Interspersed among these life
stories are reflections from program directors, clerics, mentors,
and volunteers who have worked with and in the life skills
empowerment program. In his reflection, George Horton shares his
deep gratitude for and solidarity with the 500-plus individuals he
has come to know since he co-founded the program in 1989. While
religion can be divisive, Horton firmly believes that all faiths
urge us to "welcome the stranger" and, as Pope Francis asks,
"accompany" them through the struggles of life. Through solidarity
and suffering, many formerly homeless individuals have found
renewed faith in God and community. Beyond trauma and strife,
Dorothy Day's suggestion that "All is grace" is personified in
these thirteen stories. Jeremy Kalmanofsky, rabbi at Ansche Chesed
Synagogue, says the program points toward a social fabric of
encounter and recognition between strangers, who overcome vast
differences to face one another, which in Hebrew is called Panim el
Panim. While Sacred Shelter does not tackle the socioeconomic
conditions and inequities that cause homelessness, it provides a
voice for a demographic group that continues to suffer from
systemic injustice and marginalization. In powerful, narrative
form, it expresses the resilience of individuals who have
experienced homelessness and the hope and community they have
found. By listening to their stories, we are urged to confront our
own woundedness and uncover our desire for human connection, a
sacred shelter on the other side of suffering.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own
custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts,
the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than
ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the
last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brain research.
Susan Greenfield begins by exploring the roles of different regions
of the brain. She then switches to the opposite direction and
examines how certain functions, such as movement and vision, are
accommodated in the brain. She describes how a brain is made from a
single fertilized egg, and the fate of the brain is traced through
life as we see how it constantly changes as a result of experience
to provide the essence of a unique individual.
Identity is a term much used yet hard to define. Perhaps for this
reason, the concept has long been a favourite with philosphers, and
for the very same reason has been avoided by brain scientists, -
until now. In this neurobiological exploration of identity,
Greenfield briefly reviews the social perspective from finger
prints, to faces, to signatures of the many ways we try to identity
ourselves, - in vain. The psychiatric perspective however does
offer some valuable clues that then leads to an excursion into the
physical brain: the neuroscience perspective. But identity cannot
just be an objective phenomenon: hence any pertinent brain
phenomena have to be seen also, as they are in the follwing
chapter, from an individual perspective. Armed with the insights
gained from these diverse approaches, Greenfield attempts to
conceive of actual scenarios in the physical brain that would
correspond to familiar examples of identity. However, given the
physical brain adapts exquisitely to the environemnt, and the 21st
Century environment is changing in unprecedented ways, are we
facing correspondingly unprecedented changes to our identity?
The book is an exploration of how this century is going to change
not just the way we think, but also what we actually think with -
our own individual minds. How will new technologies transform the
way we see the world? At the beginning of the twenty-first century,
we may be standing on the brink of a mind make-over far more
cataclysmic than anything that has happened before. As we
appreciate the dynamism and sensitivity of our brain circuitry, so
the prospect of directly tampering with the essence of our
individuality becomes a possibility.
What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on Ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, is the building block of consciousness. As our minds develop we create a personalized inner world based on our experiences. But during periods of intense emotion, such as anger, fear or euphoria, we can literally lose our mind, returning to the mental state we experienced as infants. Challenging many preconceived notions, Susan Greenfield’s groundbreaking book seeks to answer one of science’s most enduring mysteries: how our unique sense of self is created.
A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year What happens in
our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk
the dog, stare at a screen, daydream or sleep? World-renowned
neuroscientist Susan Greenfield draws on her own pioneering
research to illuminate the mystery of consciousness, and how our
brains make us who we are. 'Offers tantalising clues to the
universe inside our heads' Rob Kingston, Sunday Times, Science
Books of the Year 'One of the few brain researchers making a
serious effort to investigate the rich continuum of conscious
thoughts and feelings that underlie every moment of our waking
lives' Clive Cookson, Financial Times 'An illuminating, engrossing
journey' Nature 'Her writing is clear, sharp, devoid of difficult
jargon and chatty. The brain's complexity comes across vividly'
Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist
If you've ever wondered what effect video games have on your
children's minds or worried about how much private information the
government and big companies know about you, ID is essential
reading. Professor Susan Greenfield argues persuasively that our
individuality is under the microscope as never before; now more
then ever we urgently need to look at what we want for ourselves as
individuals and for our future society. ID is an exploration of
what it means to be human in a world of rapid change, a
passionately argued wake-up call and an inspiring challenge to
embrace creativity and forge our own identities.
In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading
technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant
information, connected identity, diminished privacy and
exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are
creating a new environment, with vast implications, because our
minds are physically adapting: being rewired. What could this mean,
and how can we harness, rather than be harnessed by, our new
technological milieu to create better alternatives and more
meaningful lives? Using the very latest research, Mind Change is
intended to incite debate as well as yield the way forward. There
is no better person to explain the situation in a way we can
understand, and to offer new insights on how to improve our mental
capacities and well being.
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