The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it - Philip Ball What is it that makes music so universally appealing? No culture exists without music present in some form. Happy and sad music is culturally similar throughout the world, as is the octave. Phillip Ball argues that music is something we just can't do without because our brains are fundamentally wired for sound and music appreciation. The study of neuroscience gives a compelling explanation for the way music is processed into logical pattern matching and emotional responses. Ball explains how the motor senses are affected and therefore create the need to move. Interesting studies of music across the world enlighten understanding about the social purpose of music. How the brain unconsciously develops expectations about what music is going to do, is supported by the evolutionary theory of survival ... From:£9.98 |
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder - Paul T. Mason|Randi Kreger Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by a seemingly irrational fear of being abandoned and alone. Often confused with bi-polar disorder, BP disorder leaves the sufferer with a terrible sense of emptiness and depression, and often suicidal ideation. It is however also incredibly difficult for loved ones and others to live and work around people with the condition. BPD is thought to be manifest in very early childhood experiences, and sufferers and those around them, experience a person who can be kind, generous, warm, amusing, and sincere in one moment, and then someone who changes to become manipulative, aggressive, violent, and paranoid, with an apparently irrational explanation. This book is not aimed at helping the sufferer (many good books are available), rather it is aimed ... From:£9.19 |