5Experts worldwide have been researching the brain for over a century, but we still don't know everything. 'You and Your Brain' explains what we do know about how the human brain works for bright kids ages 10 to 15. Dale Purves pulls no punches in teaching young readers about the most mysterious part of the body. Using visual diagrams and pulling from Dr. Purves' career in neuroscience, the book inspires the next generation of scientists to discover what is yet to be known.

Dale Purves is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences where he remains Research Professor. He has authored many books on the subject of neuroscience, most recently 'Music as Biology' and 'Brains as Engines of Association, ' published by Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press, respectively.