RECOMMENDED READING March 2021 OUR ALUMNI AUTHORS... The NeuroGeneration: The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal - Tan Le In The NeuroGeneration, award-winning inventor Tan Le explores exciting advancements in brain science and neurotechnology that are revolutionizing the way we think, work, and heal. Join Le as she criss-crosses the globe, introducing the brilliant neurotech innovators and neuroscientists at the frontiers of brain enhancement. Along the way, she shares incredible stories from individuals whose lives are already Girl A being transformed by their inventions—an Abigail Dean endurance racer paralysed in a fall, who now walks The Flower Girls The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller thanks to neural stimulation and an exoskeleton; a Alice Clark-Platts man who drives a race car with his mind; even a Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. colour-blind “cyborg” whose brain implant allows him to “hear” colours. Three children went out to play. Only two came She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her back. parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to Le also explores how these futuristic innovations The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who will impact our world, disrupt the way we do convicted of murder, the other given a new identity. escaped. When her mother dies in prison and business, upend healthcare as we know it, and Now, nineteen years later, another child has gone leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she remake our lives in wondrous and unexpected missing. And the Flower Girls are about to hit the can’t run from her past any longer. Together with ways. As fascinating as it is timely, The headlines all over again... her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of NeuroGeneration offers a thrilling glimpse of the Horrors into a force for good. But first she must future of our species, and how changing our brains About the author come to terms with her six siblings – and with the can change human life as we know it. childhood they shared. HSF alumna Alice Clark-Platts is a former human rights About the author lawyer who has worked on cases involving the rapper About the author Snoop Dogg and Winnie Mandela. Alice writes crime HSF alumna Tan Le is recognized as one of the most thrillers and short stories. is the author of The Flower HSF alumna Abigail Dean was born in Manchester, influential pioneers in the emerging field of brain- Girls, The Taken and Bitter Fruits. The Taken was and grew up in the Peak District. She graduated from computer interface. An inventor, explorer, and short-listed for the Best Police Procedural in the Dead Cambridge with a Double First in English. Formerly a entrepreneur, she is the founder and CEO of EMOTIV, a Good Awards 2017. Alice’s short stories have been Waterstones bookseller, she spent five years as a San Francisco-headquartered neuroinformatics published in numerous works. Her latest, Lost Boy, was lawyer in London, and took summer 2018 off to work company that is on a mission to improve understanding featured in Deadlier, edited by Sophie Hannah. Alice on her debut novel, Girl A, ahead of her thirtieth of the human brain and to develop a platform for lives in Singapore with her family. She is the founder of birthday. She now works as a lawyer for Google, and is researchers, developers, and consumers around the The Singapore Writers’ Group. currently writing her second novel, The Conspiracies. world to be part of a global innovation task force. Daring Greatly: How the courage to be Breath: The new science of a lost art Uncharted: How to map the future vulnerable transforms the way we live, James Nestor Margaret Heffernan love, parent and lead - Brené Brown The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller 2020 Every time we are introduced to someone new, try A revelatory exploration of a subject universally How can we think about the future? What do we to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we known need to do – and who do we need to be? take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel There is nothing more essential to our health and Margaret Heffernan explores the people and vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, organizations who aren’t daunted by uncertainty. - we strive to appear perfect. repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, We are addicted to prediction, desperate for In a powerful new vision Dr Brené Brown challenges humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, certainty about the future. But the complexity of everything we think we know about vulnerability, with grave consequences. In Breath, journalist modern life won’t provide that; experts in and dispels the widely accepted myth that it’s a James Nestor travels the world to discover the forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 weakness. She argues that, in truth, vulnerability is hidden science behind ancient breathing practices days out. History doesn’t repeat itself and even strength and when we shut ourselves off from to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. genetics won’t tell you everything you want to vulnerability - from revealing our true selves - we Modern research is showing us that making even know. Ineradicable uncertainty is now a fact of life. distance ourselves from the experiences that bring slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale In complex environments, efficiency is a hazard not purpose and meaning to our lives. can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate a help; being robust is the better, safer option. Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of internal organs, halt snoring, allergies, asthma, and Drawing on a wide array of people and places, groundbreaking social research, across every area autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic Margaret Heffernan looks at long-term projects of our lives including home, relationships, work, and spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. developed over generations that could never have parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous; to None of this should be possible, and yet it is. been planned the way that they have been run. show up and let ourselves be seen, even when Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom Experiments, led by individuals and nations, there are no guarantees. and cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, discover new possibilities and options. Radical This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, exercises in forging new futures with wildly diverse Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we participants allow everyone to create outcomes About the author thought we knew about our most basic biological together that none could do alone. Existential crises reveal the vital social component in resilience. Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW is a research professor at the function on its head. Death is certain, but how we approach it impacts University of Houston where she holds the Huffington You will never breathe the same again. the future of those we leave behind. And Foundation-Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The preparedness – doing everything today that you Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the last About the author might need for tomorrow – provides the antidote to two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and James Nestor has written for Scientific American, passivity and prediction. empathy, and is the author of four #1 New York Times Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, National Public bestsellers: Braving the Wilderness, The Gifts of Radio, The New York Times, and more. His book, Deep: About the author Imperfection, Daring Greatly and Rising Strong. Brené’s Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Margaret Heffernan is one of the UK’s most highly TED talk, ‘The Power of Vulnerability’, is one of the top Tells Us About Ourselves, was a finalist for the PEN five most viewed TED talks in the world with 35 million regarded thought leaders. She mentors CEOs and American Center Best Sports Book of the Year and a senior executives of major global organizations, and is views. Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Nestor has appeared Steve, and their children, Ellen and Charlie. Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible on dozens of national radio and television shows, Leadership Programme. An entrepreneur, CEO and including ABC’s Nightline, the CBS Morning News and keynote speaker, she is the also author of five previous NPR. He lives and breathes in San Francisco. More at books: Beyond Measure, A Bigger Prize, Wilful mrjamesnestor.com. Blindness, Women on Top and The Naked Truth. The best-selling Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times, and was shortlisted for the FT Business Book Award 2011. The long-distance teammate: Stay engaged and connected while working anywhere Kevin Eikenberry & Wayne Turmel What does it mean to “go to work” when you’re not and communication skills. This is a practical guide for actually leaving the house? This is the ultimate guide for both individual workers who want to regain some control remote workers who want to stay engaged as team over their work and those inside organizations responsible members, maintain robust work relationships, and keep for the ongoing development of their most important an eye on their long-term career goals.