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An edition of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004)

An alchemy of mind

the marvel and mystery of the brain

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  • 6 Want to read

"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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Scribner
Language
English
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300

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Neuropsychology, Popular works, Hersenen, Brain, Neuropsychologie
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September 27, 2005, Scribner
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
May 25, 2004, Scribner
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Table of Contents

Miracle waters (Evolution): The enchanted loom
This island earth
Why we ask why?
The fibs of being
Light breaks where no sun shines
Sweet dreams of reason (The physical brain): The shape of thought
Inner space
Attention please
A passion for patterns
In the church of the pines
Einstein's brain
The mind's eye
Pavilions of desire (Memory): What is a memory?
Reflections in a gazing ball
Remember what?
Remember, I dream
Hello, he lied
Traumatic memories
Smell, memory, and the erotic
Never a dull moment (The self, and other fictions): Introducing the self
The other self
Personality
Shall it be male of female? Say the cells
Creating minds
The world is breaking someone else's heart (Emotions): The emotional climate
The pursuit of happiness
The color of saying (Language): Memory's accomplice
Metaphors be with you
The color of saying
Shakespeare on the brain
The wilderness within (The world we share): Oasis
Conscience and consciousness
A kingdom of neighbors
The beautiful captive.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Library of Congress
QP376 .A225 2004, QP376.A225 2004

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Pagination
xii, 300 p. :
Number of pages
300

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OL23272444M
ISBN 10
0743246721
LCCN
2004041621
OCLC/WorldCat
54006936
LibraryThing
49818
Goodreads
1177393

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OL12890W

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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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