 | How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £3.61 Highly controversial, highly readable account of some recent work. May help you understand evolutionary perspective and connectionism
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 | Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.22 2003 Reith lecturer's meander around neuropsychology, showing why it matters
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 | Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past by Daniel L. Schacter
Buy new: £9.34 / Used from: £1.41 Positions memory research in real life - counteracts dryness of some memory textbooks
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 | The Social Construction of Lesbianism (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Professor Celia Kitzinger
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £5.30 Witty exposition of alleged drawbacks of orthodox psychological methods
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 | The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton
Buy new: £6.36 / Used from: £0.01 What to do after you graduate - well, one can dream
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 | The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science by Steven Mithen
Buy used from: £21.95 Psychology meets archaeology - stimulating if sometimes speculative
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy used from: £0.01 Fictional first-hand account of Asperger's syndrome - adds colour and emotion to those accounts of autistic spectrum
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 | The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Allen Lane Science) by Simon Baron-Cohen
Buy used from: £3.75 Autism and gender differences - will provoke thought certainly, rage possibly
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 | Astonishing Hypothesis: Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
Buy used from: £0.01 You may not find the hypothesis all that astonishing but it provides an interesting context for the study of vision (Marr etc.) - written by discoverer of DNA
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 | Thinks... by David Lodge
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining novel involving cognitive scientists - you will meet some old friends (like Mary the colour scientist and Nagel's bat)
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