Subliminal

BOOK SUMMARY

From the bestselling author of The Drunkard’s Walk, a startling, eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world.

Over the past two decades of neurological research, it has become increasingly clear that the way we experience the world—our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment—is largely driven by the mind’s subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed. In Subliminal, Leonard Mlodinow employs his signature concise, accessible explanations to unravel the complexities of the unconscious mind and show how it influences our decisions, relationships, and understanding of the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and teaches at the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include The Drunkard’s Walk, The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), Feynman’s Rainbow, and Euclid’s Window. He has also written for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

PRAISE

“Winner of the 2013 PEN/E.O. Wilson literary science writing award.”
—PEN America

“With great wit and intelligence, Mlodinow takes us on a sweeping tour of this mental landscape and the latest revelations in neuroscience.”
—The Huffington Post

“Mlodinow plunges into the realm of the unconscious mind accompanied by the latest scientific research, with plenty of his trademark humor.”
—Los Angeles Times

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback
272 pages
Non-fiction
8 in H | 5.1 in W | 0.8 in T | 0.6 lb