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You could be a genius . . . Award-winning science writer reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence – making you smarter, sharper and brighter than you ever thought you could be.
Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter
A breezily written pop science book about the quest to find out about what intelligence is and how it can be boosted.
What if you could zap your head or take a pill, like Bradley Cooper in the film Limitless, and become insanely clever? Over the last decade, this sci-fi possibility has started to approach reality, and David Adam’s book is a timely prologue to the brave new world that might await us...Fascinating.
Quite simply book of the year, on living with OCD: just buy it now
A fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers . . . It will make you think again
[A] fascinating study of the living nightmare that is obsessive compulsive disorder . . . one of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work
A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our understanding of the intricate complexities of mental ill-health
Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. He was named Feature Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers, and has reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle.