D R Prescott: 5 books

Is there time to avoid humanity’s extinction? Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Wrestling with that problem led to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have...

There are a finite number of self-appointed, supposedly superior people who tend to lump the balance of humanity into a category known as “laymen,” “lay woman”, “lay person” or “lay people.” Every day, everywhere, people seek each other out to talk about their ailments, their...

This eclectic collection of stories results from annoying questions that scurried about my skull over the last seventy years–typically: •Is there life after death?•Could music transcend life?•What might make a person become homeless?•Are we alone in this vast universe?•Could the...

Daddy’s Different… or, did you know that already? Samson Baker, a businessman in his mid-forties, collapses in his office, misses four days of his life and wakes up in a hospital confronted with others’ thoughts swirling in his head. In the hospital, Sam meets a beautiful, but disconcerting,...

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...