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Further
Reading
The following reading list comprises some of the non-periodical literature
referred to in the workshops we provide. All of these books should be
easy to find and most are accessible to the general reader.
I have left out the denser neuroscientific research, but you should be
able to find plenty of neuroscience in this list if you are so inclined.
Marian Diamond's, Magic Trees of the Mind is probably the
best volume for an educator with a burgeoning interest in the relationship
between brain function and learning. But as you delve into the reading
you will find that one theme holds true as a prevailing throughline.
Optimal learning, optimal aging, emotional health, personal meaning-making,
and wisdom-building all arise from an active, compassionate engagement
of human experience.
Feel free to email me if
you have any questions about these materials.
'Optimal
Aging' Literature
Successful Aging John
Rowe, M.D. & Robert Kahn, Ph.D.
MagicTrees of the Mind Marian
Diamond, Ph.D.
Aging Well George
Vaillant, M.D.
Brain Power Vernon
Mark, M.D.
Profiles in Cognitive Aging
Douglas Powell, Ph.D.
Adult Information Processing: Limits
on Loss
eds. Cerella,
Rybash, Hoyer, & Commons
Older & Wiser: Limits on Loss
Richard Restak, M.D.
Wise-Up: The Challenge of Lifelong
Learning
Guy Claxton
The Longevity Strategy: Using the Brain-Body
Connection John
Mahoney & Richard Restak
Mindfulness Ellen
Langer, Ph.D.
Brain Longevity
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
The Brain Wellness Plan Jay
Lombard, M.D.
Vital Involvement in Old Age
Erik Erikson
The Third Age: 6 Principles of Growth
and
Renewal After Forty
William Sadler, Ph.D.
Keep Your Brain Alive Lawrence
Katz, M.D.
Memory
Don't Forget: Easy Exercises for Better Memory
Danielle
C. Lapp
Memory Barry Gordon,
M.D.
12 Steps to a Better Memory Carol
Turkington
Memory's Ghost Philip
Hilts
The Anatomy of Memory James
McConkey
Searching for Memory
Daniel Schacter
The Mind of a Mnemonist A.R.
Luria
Context is Everything:The Nature of Memory
Susan Engel
Memory's Voice: Deciphering the Mind-Brain
Code
Daniel
Alkon
Learn to Remember: Practical Techniques to
Improve Your Memory
Dominic O'Brien
Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What
You're Starting
to Forget Janet Fogler
Memory and Brain Larry
Squire
The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind
Steven
Rose
Meditation
Wherever You Go ThereYou Are: Mindfulness
Meditation
in Everyday Life Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Meditative Mind Daniel
Goleman
Meditation as Medicine Dharma
Singh Khalsa, M.D.
The Relaxation Response Herbert
Benson, M.D.
Beyond the Relaxation Response Herbert
Benson, M.D.
Zen and The Brain James
Austin, M.D.
Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of
Belief
Herbert
Benson, M.D.
Concentration Ernest
Wood
The
Role of Stress in Cognitive Function & Learning
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Robert
Sapolsky, Ph.D.
Learned Optimism Martin
Seligman, Ph.D.
Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
Finding Serenity in an Age of Anxiety
Robert Gerzon, M.D.
The Hidden Curriculum of Adolescence
Being Adolescent: Conflict and
Growth in the
Teenage Years
M. Csikszentmihalyi
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for
the
World of Work
Csikszentmihalyi
Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and
Failure
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
Identity, Youth, and Crisis Erik
Erikson
Child and Adolescent Development F.
Phillip Rice
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural
Approach
Jeffrey Arnett
Against the Odds Janine
Bempechat
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Stephen Covey
Human
Happiness & Wisdom-Building
Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control
Albert Bandura
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
Flow Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement
with
Everyday
Life Mihalyi Csiszentmihalyi
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful
Lessons
in Personal Change Stephen Covey
What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom
in
America
Tony Schwartz
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor
Frankl
The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in
Human
Development
Robert Kegan
In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern
Life
Robert Kegan
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long Term
Fulfillment
George Leonard
Man's Search for Himself Rollo
May, Ph.D.
The Courage to Create Rollo
May, Ph.D.
First You Have to Row A Little Boat: Reflections
of
Life
and Living Richard Bode
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-
Motivation
Edward Deci
Evolutionary Biology and the Brain
The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology
and
Cognition
Susan Carey & Rochel Gelman
Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages of
Evolution of Culture & Cognition
M. Donald
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology
&
Culture
Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby
The Blind Watchmaker Richard
Dawkins
The Growth of the Mind: The Endangered Origins
of
Intelligence Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
Henry Plotkin
How The Mind Works Steven
Pinker
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then
&
Now
William Calvin
Explanations of Brain Function
Wet Mind: The New Cogntive Neuroscience
Stephen Kosslyn & Oliver Koenig
User's Guide to the Brain John
Ratey M.D.
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour Susan
Greenfield
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the
Civilized
Mind Elkhonon Goldberg
Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art & The
Brain
Semir Zeki
Creating Mind: How the Brain Works
John Dowling
The Neurology of Thinking D.
Frank Benson
The Biology of the Brain: From Neurons to
Networks
Rodolfo Llinas
Intelligence
and the 'Learnable' Intelligences
Successful Intelligence: How Practical & Creative
Intelligence Determine Success in
Life
Robert Sternberg, Ph.D.
Practical Intelligencein Everyday Life
R. Sternberg, Ph.D.
Intelligence, Heredity, & Environment
eds. Robert Sternberg & Elena Grigorenko
Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable
Intelligence David Perkins, Ph.D.
Intelligence Nathan
Brody
Archimedes' Bathtub: The Art and Logic of
Breakthrough Thinking David
Perkins
Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives
eds. Gardner,
Kornhaber, & Wake
Intelligence Reframed Howard
Gardner
The Disciplined Mind Howard
Gardner
Making the Most Out of College: Students Speak
Their Minds
Richard Light
Human Behavior and the Developing Brain
eds. Geraldine Dawson & Kurt Fischer
Human Learning (Third edition) Jeanne
Ellis Ormrod
Emotion and Cognition
Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
eds. Richard lane
& Lynn Nadel
Molecules of Emotion Candace
Pert, Ph.D.
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason & The Human
Brain
Antonio Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion
in the Making
of Consciousness Damasio
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious
Underpinningsd
of Emotional Life Joseph LeDoux
The Brain & Emotion Edmund
Rolls
Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotions
Victor
Johnson
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of
Human
and Animal
Emotions Jaak Panksepp
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter
More
than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Working With Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Emotional Fitness Conditioning:An Action Plan
for
Lifelong
Emotional Health R. Bergman
Meta-Cognition
& Learning Strategies
Fundamentals of Cognition Mark
Ashcraft
Thinking and Problem Solving ed.
Robert Sternberg
The Power of Mindful Learning Ellen
Langer, Ph.D.
Educational Psychology: A Practioner-Researcher
Model of
Teaching eds. Parsons et al
Smart Schools: Better Thinking & Learning
for
Every Child
David Perkins
Six Thinking Hats Edward
DeBono
The Thinker's Toolkit Morgan
D. Jones
Conceptual Blockbusting James
Adams
Creativity
and Promoting Creative Behaviors
Creativity in Context Teresa
Amabile
Handbook of Creativity Robert
Sternberg
The Nature of Insight eds
Sternberg & Davidson
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Michael Gelb
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
Sparks of Genius: 13 Thinking Tools of the
World's
Most Creative
People Root-Bernstein
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence
Increases
When You Think Less Guy Claxton
Punished By Reward Alfie
Kohn
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