Aivot: käyttäjän käsikirja

by Matthew MacDonald, Eero Sarkkinen (Translator)

Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with well over a dozen books to his name. He's particularly known for his books about building websites, which include a do-it-from-scratch tutorial (Creating a Website: The Missing Manual), a look at cutting-edge HTML5 (HTML5: The Missing Manual), and a WordPress primer (WordPress: The Missing Manual). He's also written a series of books about programming on and off the Web with .NET, teaches programming at Ryerson University, and is a three-time Microsoft MVP.

Reviews

[Leila P · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting book about the human brain. The basic stuff I mostly knew already, but the core of this book was that by understanding the brain you can understand yourself and spot moments when your brain is actually acting against your best interest. It also presented amazing visual tricks and totally counter-intuitive riddles. It explained why the first chocolate piece tastes like heaven, the second delicious, the third very good etc. and the last is like eating cardboard. It also included a simple personality test with advice for each type. The results were not a suprise: I already knew I am introvert and 'nice' and liberal and unorganised/sloppy and non-perfectionist and intelligently curious. But I was intrigued to know I'm exactly in the middle in the "coping with negative feelings" spectrum.