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    The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain: The true story of your amazing brain
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    The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain: The true story of your amazing brain

    By Andrew Curran

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    Designed as a cover to cover read which leaves the reader with a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution 2 billion years ago to the present day. A light-hearted look at the brain aimed at a lay audience. It especially focuses on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and in many ways is the neurobiological explanation of why emotional intelligence is so important to health, wealth and happiness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrown House Publishing
    Release dateApr 3, 2008
    ISBN9781845902094
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    The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain: The true story of your amazing brain
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    Andrew Curran

    Dr Andrew Curran is a practising paediatric neurologist and neurobiologist who is also committed to using his extraordinary knowledge of the workings of the human brain to make a difference in the educational experience of all young people. He has been involved with Manchester University's Department of Education, developing research ideas looking at the use of emotional literacy in our classrooms. More recently he has conducted work exploring the processing of reward in the human brain. He believes passionately in the importance of understanding the individual, connecting with them emotionally and leading them into self directed learning. His book, the Little Book of Big Stuff about the Brain (published by Crown House Publishing) is recognised as one of the leading books about understanding brain based learning and the importance of emotional literacy in our classrooms and in our lives. His latest book, Get Off the Sofa is a general health book aimed at anyone from 5 - 85 who wants to understand their health more. He is a talented and internationally recognised presenter both to live audiences and on television where he was a main presenter on BBC3's Make My Body Younger. He is an associate of Independent Thinking Ltd.

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    • 5/5
      From the front cover of this book I thought that this would be an enjoyable read. Curran managed to playfully talk about the evolution of the human brain and insert his own ideas about how we should approach learning both for ourselves and for others. I really enjoyed the light-hearted pictures inserted throughout the text and his writing style, though it was a little clunky at times. Really enjoyed and would recommend this little tome.
    • 2/5
      An approachable introduction to the working of the brain, part of a series of texts for educationalists. Curran's explanations tend to be clear and give enough information, without blinding the novice reader. However, it's a book that needs a good edit to polish some rather clunky segues, and to cut down on the non-jokes and irritating digressions. Some of the 'illustrations' could go too: the working drawings of parts of the brain are useful - and conjour the idea of 'live' teaching (it's easy to imagine the author drawing these on a whiteboard) - but the other cartoons are space-fillers at best, at worst plain lazy. Good - but there are other, better quality volumes available.
    • 5/5
      From the front cover of this book I thought that this would be an enjoyable read. Curran managed to playfully talk about the evolution of the human brain and insert his own ideas about how we should approach learning both for ourselves and for others. I really enjoyed the light-hearted pictures inserted throughout the text and his writing style, though it was a little clunky at times. Really enjoyed and would recommend this little tome.