Fiction Cognition

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL BY: The New York Times, Associated Press, Goodreads, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, and more A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times bestselling author of...

In the city of Klade, where corporations script the weather and edit memory like code, a nameless runner called Hikari lives in engineered bodies and borrowed personas. Forge is a battlefield juggernaut, Velvet is charm sharpened into a weapon, Wisp is a small-frame hacker with teeth, and Scout is the boy who slips through crowds unseen. Hikari refuses to speak the life that came before, the night they escaped Orinox and stole a combat shell to erase the child they once were.

This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering...

Forty-eight witnesses remember the same man being murdered. The problem is, he never existed. When a Chicago commuter train emerges from a twelve-minute blackout, every passenger reports the violent death of a man named Nathan Cole. There is no body. No record of him boarding the train. No evidence that he has ever lived. Yet one witness is wearing his wedding ring. Another knows the password to his bank account. A third remembers raising children with him. Each passenger recalls a different face—but they all feel the same devastating grief. Dr. Mara Ellison is a forensic ...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.Forget everything youâ€ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In...

This book does not offer answers. It follows Aren, a man who learns early that explanations arrive before questions—and that most of what people call truth is decoration applied after the fact. As inherited beliefs fail under observation, Aren embarks on a systematic examination of what can actually be known. Through science, philosophy, meditation, and lived experience, he discovers not enlightenment, but something more durable: clarity. Surface Conditions is a novel about intellectual honesty. It replaces consolation with precision, meaning-seeking with attention, and transcendence with...

This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST...

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyze the unique characters that populate his plays.

Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness, purely as a phenomenon of the brain, fails to account for the empirical findings. 

He controls a seventy-million-pound empire. She controls his mind. Thomas Hodgson is the ruthless CEO of a European logistics firm. For thirty-eight years, his life has been an exhausting, high-wire act of absolute control, boardroom battles, and relentless performance. But the stress is finally breaking his neurochemistry. Desperate for a cognitive reset, he signs an ironclad contract for a seventy-two-hour decompression retreat at an isolated moorland estate. He expects sensory deprivation and hostile negotiations. He does not expect Dr. Victoria Cartwright. Cold, calculating, and ...

In a secluded research institute at the cutting edge of science and technology, a team of brilliant minds is embarking on an unprecedented journey into the depths of human behavior. Their creation, the Human Algorithm, is designed to decode the patterns of thought, emotion, and action, mapping the intricate landscapes of the human mind with unparalleled precision. But as the algorithm evolves, it begins to do more than just observe—it engages, influences, and ultimately, questions. The story follows a diverse group of participants, each grappling with their own personal struggles, as they...

Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction, 15 renowned luminaries use tools of narratology and insights from cognitive science and neurobiology to provide answers to these questions and more.

Containment failed. Adaptation began. Elia Sorn is a Synth Diver—trained to enter fractured timelines and repair paradoxes before they collapse reality. Her last mission discovers something that should not exist. She returns aboard the DSV Meridian, a deep-ocean research vessel deployed to the Bermuda Triangle, one of the most unstable fracture zones on Earth. At first, the anomalies seem minor: duplicate conversations, conflicting ship logs, crew members remembering events that never happened. Then reality begins to fail in ways no system can explain: Temporary shifts, double timelines, ...

In a civilization of trillions, your name is erased. Your memory is a weapon. Your only crime was having a soul. Registrant 7-009-A4. To the crushing bureaucracy of the United Human Dominion, that is your entire identity. You are a 'serviteur'—a bio-engineered cog in an eternal war against the Ketrassii. You are programmed for lethality, processed for obedience, and identified only as Bec. In a galaxy of artificial light and manufactured grey, Bec’s only asset is a gift the Machine could not eliminate: an absolute, photographic muscle memory. His internal 'library' holds the blueprints ...

Short Stories for Elderly is a delightful collection of 50 stories specifically tailored to provide stimulation for the minds of seniors. Featuring a diverse mixture of funny stories as well as uplifting anecdotes, this book will bring your elderly loved ones a renewed sense of joy and purpose.

Sex is such an intimate topic historically wrapped in shame and when someone shares they were sexually abused, we may not know how to respond. With recent #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, we are learning just how many men, women, boys, and girls have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a...

Part one of this book contains a heartwarming collection of 50 stories that are specifically tailored to bring joy and inspiration to the lives of seniors. Written with the unique perspective of those who have lived a long and fulfilling life, this part offers a poignant look at the human experience through stories that are relatable, engaging, and uplifting.

How can anyone know that an order to launch nuclear weapons came from a sane president? In 1973, a U.S. Air Force officer named Harold Hering asked that question. He was discharged for asking it. The question has never been answered. DEAD HAND is a political thriller about the most dangerous gap in American democracy: the space between a president's authority and a president's mind. President Harlan Cross is changing. His National Security Advisor, Eleanor Voss, has started keeping a notebook of dates. His White House physician has a file on a laptop he has never connected to the government...

"The problem wasn't the number. The problem was that the number balanced too perfectly." For a forty-year-old auditor professionally trained to detect inconsistencies, life is built on a practical trust: if something is real, it can be audited. But that trust begins to shatter when she experiences subtle alterations in her perception: space acquires density, matter loses its rigidity, and the world begins to show its underlying code. Far from a spiritual awakening, she realizes she is accessing raw perceptual layers normally filtered out by the human brain. As she learns to modulate these ...

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review...