Subject: Consciousness (Keywords)

What happens when we die? Ten per cent of people whose hearts stop, and then restart, report near-death experiences. Stories of lights, tunnels and reunion with late loved ones have been relayed - and dismissed - since ancient times. But when Dr Bruce Greyson's patients started describing events ...

'After' is a book for anyone curious about the scope of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Here, Bruce Greyson shares the scientific revelations of four decades of research into the dying process. He has become increasingly convinced that dying is l...

Shows how various intoxicants and their attendant rituals have played a central role in the religious or social life of a community, and that the altered states of consciousness produced by drugs are shaped by cultural values. The book also explores the use and spread of psychoactive substances.

Tells the story of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change. For more than a quarter of a century after the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commen...

In 1953, Francis Crick researched the structure of DNA - forever transforming our understanding of life itself. Now, 31 years after he received the Nobel Prize, Crick turns his attention to the task of understanding human consciousness and asks what makes humans sentient beings?

In 'Becoming Bulletproof', former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpouras shares the insights and skills she has learned from one of the oldest elite security forces in the world - to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you're perceived, and live a more fea...

Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in our scientific understanding of the brain. Somewhere, somehow, inscribed in the brain is everything that makes you you. But how do we grasp what happens in the brain to turn mere electrical impulses into the vast range of perceptions, thoughts and em...

Can complex mental states - feeling, thought, memory, fantasy, dreaming - be explained by electro-chemical events in the brain? If so, how? Hobson uses anecdote and example to illustrate his theory that the interplay of the brain's two chemical systems regulates our waking and dreaming lives.