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  • Hardcover: 1024 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; 2 edition (28 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198662246
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198662242
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17.6 x 5.6 cm
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FT Magazine, November 13, 2004

This new edition deserves a place on the shelf of any psychology buff.


The Psychologist, March 2005

This wonderful companion has lived in my study and been a pleasure for random browsing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling, 31 Oct 2004
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Richard Gregory knows more about the human brain than any man alive. This second edition of the Oxford Companion to the Mind has over 200 contributors, over a thousand entries and a million words and in it is much that is new since the first edition (1987.) Out goes Freud (well, not quite; he is still there, but much more strictly edited; ditto Jung et al.) and in comes a huge amount of new and riveting brain research. This is a philosophical and historical as well as a scientific work of immense learning that will divert and entertain as well as explain: it will expand your mind and change the physical structure of your brain. There are short pithy entries, sometimes delightfully quirky, often witty; there are longer, more complex contributions on a myriad of wide-ranging subjects, sometimes technical but always understandable, accessible even for the non-scientist reader. It ranges from mirror cells, face recognition, drama and how we see art to the hippocampus and Hobbes and shellshock. It covers language, memory, imagination and intelligence; the cocktail party effect, the halo effect and the least effort principle are all clearly explained. It contains three mini-symposia on consciousness, brain imaging and artificial intelligence. This is not just a dazzling reference book but also a diverting bed-side book for artist and scientist alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Book of Everything, 24 Jun 2008
I was blown away by this great book, from its cover to the last page. It incompasses everything in the universe from artificial intelligence to shellshock and everything in between. The only other book I've read that comes close to this was A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD, and even that one pales by comparison.

Richard Gregory is probably the smartest man alive and it's hard to imagine how he put this book together, gleaning all that he did from the different sources. And don't be put off, thinking this is going to be some high-brow complicated mess that you can't get through. It's extremely well done and accessible to almost everyone. That's not to say that it won't have you thinking, but the great thing is that you can pick this up, read a few pages, and leave it. You don't have to read it from cover to cover.

The most fascinating part for me was the section on psychology. This book can be used by the college professor and layman alike. I would like to say that I found something wrong with it, but alas, it's pretty much perfect in every way. Not only will this make a great addition to your library, but it would make a great Christmas gift also.

The title really should be "The Book of Everything."



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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a great overview, 11 Oct 2000
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This offers a terrific overview of the whole field of psychology, invaluable if you're doing a uni psych course cos it tells you all about it in a nutshell. It's also fascinating for the layman to read. (Wish they updated it every year though, which is my only major criticism of it)
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