Daniel Levitin is a one-time record 'producer' who now works as a neuroscientist. No one could have better qualifications to write a book exploring how the human brain perceives music, and how composers exploit our instinctive reaction to music material to beguile and challenge us.

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Title: This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1843547163
ISBN 13: 9781843547167
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Fine
Weight: 365 grams

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"Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give. Daniel Levitin has a huge knowledge of music developed since the 1950s (and of blues, jazz, and etc. before this), and not merely a formal but a deep personal knowledge as an expert performer no less than as a listener. I liked the discussion of 'safe' and 'dangerous' music, and I very much liked the final chapter on the evolutionary origins of music. An important book."
-Oliver Sacks, M.D.

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Ron Robertson, along with his late wife Helen established Rons Bookshop in 1998 as a bricks and mortar bookshop. Helen died in 2014 and Ron carried on running the shop alone and joined the ABE family and commenced selling online in June 2017. Ron decided to close the bricks and mortar shop, from the close of business on December 31 2019 and concentrate on the online business from home. Whilst Rons does not specialise in any particular genre the business has an extensive collection of high quality books of all genres in paperback and hardback.

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