Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Before Parasites Were Cool -- Chapter 2: Hitching a Ride -- Chapter 3: Zombified -- Chapter 4: Hypnotized -- Chapter 5: Dangerous Liaisons -- Chapter 6: Gut Feelings
This is your brain on parasites: how tiny predators manipulate our behavior and shape society
β Scribed by Kathleen McAuliffe
- Publisher
- HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<DIV><B>A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creaturesβincluding humansβthink, feel, and act.</B><BR /> Β <BR /> These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their hostβ
Why are we often convinced that we're right even when we're wrong? Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be? Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us? It's because we don't see the world as it is, rather we reconstruct it in our mind