Technical specs
Original title: Cá dentro — um guia para descobrir o cérebro
368 pages / 170 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145819 / RRP: 26,80€
1st edition: March 2017
3rd reprint: September 2024
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Polish (optioned), Russian, Spanish, Ukranian
Inside
(Portuguese edition)
In Ancient times, it was believed that the organ responsible for our thoughts and emotions was the heart. Today, we know that all that we are – thoughts, emotions, decisions, ideas – takes place inside the brain, in a continuous conversation with the rest of our body. But how does a thought begin? How does the brain work? How does it remember what it learned? How does it create and invent? How does it make us a unique, one-of-a-kind person?
Developed with the support of a team of neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists, Inside tracks the evolution of the brain right from its inception, revealing how reality, in all its wonder, is created with the help of our senses, explaining how we learn, decide and act, and how we connect to other people – other brains.
If all experiences shape our brain in some way, we hope this book helps yours to become (even more) curious, motivated and content!
For readers of all ages (from the age of 10).
Technical specs
Original title: Cá dentro — um guia para descobrir o cérebro
368 pages / 170 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145819 / RRP: 26,80€
1st edition: March 2017
3rd reprint: September 2024
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Polish (optioned), Russian, Spanish, Ukranian
Awards and recognitions
Recommended — National Reading Plan (Portugal)
Selected — Best books of 2017, Expresso newspaper
Highly recommended— FNLIJ, “Portuguese Language Literature” category (Brazil, 2016)
What they say
[Inside] is as versatile as our brains – we can read it alone or enjoy it together with others; we can read a chapter, put it aside and come back to it a week later, or we can read it hungrily, without stopping. If you’re a curious person, watch out! This book is addictive. And if you’re not, well, welcome – you’ve just joined the curiosity club!
Leer la Ciencia blog, 24/01/2019
It’s important that the reductive classification inherent to labels such as “children’s book” or “YA” doesn’t put adult readers off all books in this category, and off books like this, in particular. Useful for younger readers, they’re enchanting for older ones.
Pedro Cordeiro, Expresso newspaper, 03/06/2017
A work for readers aged 10 and over, whose grey matter is anything but dull.
Ana Dias Ferreira, Observador newspaper, 26/04/2017
An extraordinary guide to the brain, which leaves formalities to one side in order to present the reader with the most mysterious and complex organ in the human body… and it’s amazing because it deals with multiple approaches to the brain, from the anatomical to the philosophical and social, all with scientific rigour but without losing that sense of accessibility to all readers.
Sílvia Borges Silva, O Palácio da Lua blog
Inside, Outside or somewhere in between, we take our hats off, once again, to Planeta Tangerina. There aren’t many educational books which enchant us. But this one is absolutely fascinating.
Hipopómatos na lua blog, 13/05/2017
From emotions to creativity and to the aesthetic experience, from memory to action, from interpersonal relations to the brains of animals, from facts to myths, this book of grey matter deals with it all.
Gabriela Lourenço, Visão magazine, 01/06/2017