John Prescott: 3 books

Book cover of Taste Matters

Taste Matters

Why We Like the Foods We Do

by John Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

The human tongue has somewhere up to eight thousand taste buds to inform us when something is sweet, salty, sour, or bitter—or as we usually think of it—delicious or revolting. Tastes differ from one region to the next, and no two people’s seem to be the same. But why is it that some people...
Book cover of The Modern Compendium of Despicable Jerks
by John Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

This compendium is a highly opinionated, occasionally bogus representation of the most egregious modern examples of both common irritating folks and the rich and powerful who demean others while enriching themselves. It also includes real villains. See if you can tell the difference. The subjects of...
Book cover of From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
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