by Angus Gellatly, Oscar Zarate · Icon Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840468540
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«Introducing Mind and Brain: A Graphic Guide» is the popular science graphic guide by Angus Gellatly and Oscar Zarate, published by Icon Books in paperback.
A graphic guide that explains the nature of the mind, consciousness and personal identity based on the brain. It traces the history of ideas about how it works and covers planning, action, memory, attention, emotions and vision, showing how brain tissue makes love, childhood memories and laughter possible.
Part of the «Introducing» series, a collection of graphic guides that bring science and thought to a general audience. Published in 2007, with text in English.
Aimed at readers with no prior training who want to approach neuroscience, psychology and the philosophy of mind with a visual focus.
Oscar Zárate is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. In the Introducing... and ...For Beginners book series he illustrated texts written by Richard Appignanesi, Alexei Sayle, Dylan Evans, J P McEvoy, Angus Gellatly, Rupert Woodfin and Christopher Marlowe. He is perhaps best known in the United States as the artist for the graphic novel A Small Killing written by Alan Moore, a one-shot story about a rising star in the world of advertising who is being stalked by a sadistic child.
