Behave, How Emotions Are Made & The Brain 3 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
The Brain: The Story of You

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Mariner Books, Vintage

Overview
This three-book nonfiction collection pairs three widely discussed neuroscience titles into one absorbing reading experience. Robert M. Sapolsky's Behave traces human conduct from the split-second of a decision back through hormones, neurons, childhood, and evolution. Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions Are Made overturns the idea that feelings are hardwired, arguing the brain constructs them moment to moment. David Eagleman's The Brain: The Story of You explores memory, perception, and identity through vivid, accessible storytelling. Together they build a well-rounded picture of how biology and experience shape who we truly are.

About the Books
Each title in this set approaches the brain from a different, complementary angle, giving readers both breadth and depth. Behave is Sapolsky's sprawling examination of aggression, cooperation, and morality, moving backward from the instant a behavior occurs to the evolutionary pressures that shaped it over millions of years. It is one of the most widely discussed popular science books on human behavior, prized for pairing rigorous research with wit and clarity. How Emotions Are Made distills years of Barrett's laboratory research into a paradigm-shifting argument: emotions are not universal reactions hardwired in the brain, but concepts the brain actively constructs using past experience, culture, and context, with implications for medicine, law, parenting, and mental health. The Brain: The Story of You, based on Eagleman's PBS series of the same name, uses case studies and thought experiments to ask what makes a person truly themselves as the brain's cells and connections constantly change. Read together, these three books reinforce and challenge one another, giving readers multiple complementary frameworks for thinking about decision-making, feeling, and identity, and this paperback trio suits students of psychology, professionals in medicine, education, or law, and any curious reader who has wondered why people act and feel as they do. Sold together, these brand new paperbacks form a compact home library on the biology of the mind.

Key Benefits

• Three acclaimed neuroscience titles in one bundle
• Covers behavior, emotion, and identity from complementary angles
• Written by leading researchers in accessible prose
• Great for students, professionals, and book clubs
• Brand new paperbacks, ideal for gifting
• Sparks conversation about mind and human nature

Book-by-Book Guide
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Sapolsky traces behavior back through hormones and evolutionary history.
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain — Barrett argues emotions are constructed by the brain, not fixed circuits.
The Brain: The Story of You — Eagleman explores memory, perception, and identity through vivid case studies.

About the Authors
Robert M. Sapolsky is a neuroscientist and primatologist at Stanford University, known for decades studying stress and behavior in wild baboons and for translating dense science into vivid, witty prose. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist and neuroscientist at Northeastern University whose research on emotion has reshaped how scientists and clinicians think about feelings and the brain. David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist who studies perception and brain plasticity and has written widely on neuroscience, including the PBS series that inspired The Brain. All three are recognized for bringing rigorous science to general readers.

Why You'll Love This Collection
Perfect for the curious reader on your gift list, this trio makes a thoughtful birthday or holiday present, a stocking stuffer for science lovers, or a fine addition to a book club, classroom library, or waiting room shelf. Three perspectives, one fascinating subject: the human brain itself. That range of viewpoints makes it a gift worth giving.

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