You Can Beat Your Brain

You Can Beat Your BrainIn the follow up to the international bestseller You Are Not So Smart, McRaney helps us to overcome our quirks and think more effectively. Informed by the latest studies in psychology, You Can Beat Your Brain is a pocket sized primer packed with wry humour and astonishing facts. You'll discover why tall people earn more money, why a rickety bridge is a good place for a first date, and how to avoid irrational beliefs and self delusion.

4/4 stars A female

he responded with explosive violence

" Jonathan Fenby

She strikes up an unlikely friendship with Pope

You may think you know what makes up a human

the quirky new girl at school

but he soon finds himself her most-trusted partner in a dog-napping case that'll take both their talents to crack

The most comprehensive and readable single-volume biographical dictionary available

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired

who's reaching out

Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town

until a letter arrives two decades later