High Price - A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everythi

As a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing. Freshman Common Read: Albion College, University of Central Florida

Product details

• Authors: Carl Hart
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.06.2014
• EAN: 9780062015891
• ISBN: 978-0-06-201589-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 206 mm x 25 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, Psychology, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Sociology and anthropology, Relating to Jewish people and groups, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Social Scientists & Psychologists, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: SOCIAL SCIENCE, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, First Year Experience / American History & Society, African American Studies / Social Science