Being human [Audiobook CD] : life lessons from the frontiers of science

Available

Being human life lessons from the frontiers of science

(2012)

Nonfiction

Audiobook CD

Series:

Great courses

Call Numbers:

CD/599.935/BEING

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Audiobooks	CD/599.935/BEING	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2012]
©2012

DESCRIPTION

6 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 90 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

ISBN/ISSN

1598038095, 9781598038095

LANGUAGE

English

SERIES

Great courses

NOTES

Compact discs

12 lectures with 30 min. each

Robert Sapolsky, professor, Stanford University

What's so special about being human? -- Junk-food monkeys -- Burden of being burden-free -- Bugs in the brain -- Poverty's remains -- Why are dreams dreamlike? --

Disc 2.

Pleasures and pains of "maybe" -- How the other half heals -- Why we want the bodies back -- Anatomy of a bad mood -- This is your brain on metaphors -- Sushi and middle age