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Views current psychological theory and experimentation on perception and cognition and probes the factors that influence the national and intuitive modes of consciousness
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9780140195200 | 2 rev sub edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Views current psychological theory and experimentation on perception and cognition and probes the factors that influence the national and intuitive modes of consciousness
9780155730823 | 2 edition (Harcourt College Pub, December 1, 1977), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This is an exploration of the creative and rational aspects of human behaviour.

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Scientists from diverse disciplines explore the origins, nature, and processes of both the intuitive and intellectual modes of human awareness
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9780670504800 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1978, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Scientists from diverse disciplines explore the origins, nature, and processes of both the intuitive and intellectual modes of human awareness

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Product Description: For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety. But now, this rational Western perception of consciousness has been challenged by an Eastern discipline which brings into sharp focus the travesty and deception underlying many of the contemporary awareness movements...read more
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9780863040115 | Reprint edition (Ishk Book Service, July 1, 1984), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety.

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A visual, informative, and comprehensible study of the construction, evolution, and chemical and electrical operation of the human brain
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9780395354865 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A visual, informative, and comprehensible study of the construction, evolution, and chemical and electrical operation of the human brain

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9780395585726 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, July 15, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A visual, informative, and comprehensible study of the construction, evolution, and chemical and electrical operation of the human brain

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Product Description: This reprint of Robert Ornstein's classic presents a startling new concept of how the human mind works -- a readable and accessible introduction to the new science of the mind, where different parts of the mind are thought to come to the fore to handle different situations...read more
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9780395411070, titled "Multimind/a New Way of Looking at Human Behavior" | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Elaborates a new concept of how the human mind works, on the paradigm of a 'mental operating system' composed of diverse separate components with special functions, and discusses split personality and other forms of psychosis in terms of the new concept

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9781883536299 | Ishk Book Service, April 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This reprint of Robert Ornstein's classic presents a startling new concept of how the human mind works -- a readable and accessible introduction to the new science of the mind, where different parts of the mind are thought to come to the fore to handle different situations.
9780385264464 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This reprint of Robert Ornstein's classic presents a startling new concept of how the human mind works -- a readable and accessible introduction to the new science of the mind, where different parts of the mind are thought to come to the fore to handle different situations.

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Product Description: Breakthrough discoveries about how the brain keeps us healthy.  (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780671619459 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the tasks of the brain from regulation of body temperature to the positive effects of tears and crying

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9781883536176 | Ishk Book Service, February 1, 1999, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Breakthrough discoveries about how the brain keeps us healthy.
9780671662363 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Examines the tasks of the brain from regulation of body temperature to the positive effects of tears and crying

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9780155726857 | 3 sub edition (Harcourt College Pub, March 1, 1991), cover price $53.95
9780155726802 | 2 sub edition (Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1988), cover price $45.95

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Product Description: There is no longer sufficient time to rely on the normal pace of cultural evolution to deal with today's dilemmas... Human beings have always been the most adaptable creatures on the planet, and they should be able to chart a new course for themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780385239400, titled "New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution" | Doubleday, January 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Arguing that changing cultures and biological changes have rendered traditional ways of thinking obsolete, the authors advocate a new set of thoughts and reactions in keeping with contemporary life

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9781883536244, titled "New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution" | Malor Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: There is no longer sufficient time to rely on the normal pace of cultural evolution to deal with today's dilemmas.
9780671696061 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Argues that the human mind has failed to comprehend the modern world and suggests that it must be trained to notice large gradual changes as well as short sudden ones

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Synthesizes immunobiology, genetics, and psychology to illustrate the emotional and physical importance of pleasure and recommends ways to create positive attitudes that make life an affirmative experience
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9780201126693 | Perseus Books, May 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Synthesizes immunobiology, genetics, and psychology to illustrate the emotional and physical importance of pleasure and recommends ways to create positive attitudes that make life an affirmative experience

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9780201523850 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, January 21, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Synthesizes immunobiology, genetics, and psychology to illustrate the emotional and physical importance of pleasure and recommends ways to create positive attitudes that make life an affirmative experience

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Product Description: It has long been known that the body may respond positively when an individual believes that he or she has been given medication. For years the placebo effect remained an isolated and unexplained phenomenon. Recent research has shown, however, that psychological states and life traumas, including divorce and loss of employment, can adversely affect immune system responses...read more
By Robert E. Ornstein (editor) and Charles Swencionis (editor)
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9780898624632 | Reprint edition (Guilford Pubn, March 1, 1991), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: It has long been known that the body may respond positively when an individual believes that he or she has been given medication.

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A summation of research on the structure and function of the brain presents new ideas on how the human mind evolved in adaptation to a world that no longer exists
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9780135875698 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A summation of research on the structure and function of the brain presents new ideas on how the human mind evolved in adaptation to a world that no longer exists

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A summation of research on the structure and function of the brain presents new ideas on how the human mind evolved in adaptation to a world that no longer exists
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9780671792244 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1992), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A summation of research on the structure and function of the brain presents new ideas on how the human mind evolved in adaptation to a world that no longer exists

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An exploration of why individuals are the way they are illuminates the complex forces that shape humans from womb to grave, arming readers with facts about genetics, environment, psychology, creativity, and higher consciousness
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9780062507884 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An exploration of why individuals are the way they are illuminates the complex forces that shape humans from womb to grave, arming readers with facts about genetics, environment, psychology, creativity, and higher consciousness

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9780062507891 | Ishk Book Service, January 1, 1995, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: An exploration of why individuals are the way they are illuminates the complex forces that shape humans from womb to grave, arming readers with facts about genetics, environment, psychology, creativity, and higher consciousness

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Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use
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9780614037500 | 1st americ edition (Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 1995), cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use

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Product Description: For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety. But now, this rational Western perception of consciousness has been challenged by an Eastern discipline which brings into sharp focus the travesty and deception underlying many of the contemporary awareness movements...read more
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9781883536008 | Reprint edition (Ishk Book Service, February 1, 1996), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety.

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Product Description: A valuable new kind of prescription for health and well being. It offers easy-to-understand practical advice on improving physical health and leading a happier, more productive life. This book not only explains the important benefits of a healthy mind and body in simple, understandable language, but gives you practical ways to improve how you feel today...read more
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9781575770321 | Ishk Book Service, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: A valuable new kind of prescription for health and well being.
9780965104005 | D R X, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A valuable new kind of prescription for health and well being.

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Product Description: How do we experience time? What do we use to experience it?In a series of remarkable experiments, Robert Ornstein shows that it is difficult to maintain an “inner clock” explanation of the experience of time and postulates a cognitive, information-processing approach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813334424 | Westview Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: How do we experience time?

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Product Description: This book sets out to demonstrate that physical health and sickness and the spiritual life, happiness, depression, grief, optimism, despair, etc are closely related. The author contests the claims made by conventional medicine by showing that by the time breakthrough cures for diphtheria, and tuberculosis were discovered, rates of death had already dwindled by up to 90%...read more
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9780333482780 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This book sets out to demonstrate that physical health and sickness and the spiritual life, happiness, depression, grief, optimism, despair, etc are closely related.

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Product Description: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise...read more
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9781442206489 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 16, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections.

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9781442206496 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 16, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections.

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