An Alchemy of Mind
The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman
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"Diane Ackerman discusses the science of the brain as only she can. In addition to explaining memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, she reports on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and addresses controversial subjects like the effects of trauma and male versus female brains. Ackerman distills the hard, objective truths of science in order to yield vivid, heavily anecdotal explanations about a range of existential questions regarding consciousness, human thought, memory, and the nature of identify."--BOOK JACKET.
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
September 27, 2005, Scribner
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
May 25, 2004, Scribner
Hardcover
in English
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An alchemy of mind: the marvel and mystery of the brain
2004, Scribner
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"Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredrome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag."
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"Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredrome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag."
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| July 30, 2011 | Edited by Hilary Caws-Elwitt | merge authors |
| August 6, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
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