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... for this year were The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, and The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doige
Stocking Stuffers (a Christmas romance omnibus)
-paperback
-they both have pages and words
-I enjoyed large parts of each book and wasn't quite so impressed will other parts ... Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe
Lives of a Cell
THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL
600 – Technology
The Brain That Changes Itself
Blue Ocean Strategy
The Long Tail
700 – Art
Building the Getty
800 – Literature
The Iliad
The Odyssey
900 – ... ... in general would probably include The Coming Plague, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs, The Brain that Changes Itself by Brian Doidge, and Guns, Germs, and Steel (although I'm still reading it).
Edited to fiddle with links. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
This book gives an overview of the recent advances in neuroscience with emphasis on applications to restore brain functions to people who have suffered damages to the brain (caused by diseases, accidents or birth defect).
The human brain is ... The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
This book gives an overview of the recent advances in neuroscience with emphasis on applications to restore brain functions to people who have suffered damages to the brain (caused by diseases, accidents or birth defect).
The human brain is ... ... Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
600 – Technology
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher
The Brain That Changes Itself
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb ... Today, March 24, 2009, I am reading George R. R. Martin's Busted Flush, from the library and I am working my way through The Brain that changes Itself by Norman Doige, also from my very fine library.
Waiting in the wings, actually, by my bed, is (blush) Ghouls Just haunt to Have Fun by Vic ... Request for recommendation(s).
If I've been paying attention, several on this list recommend Proust and the Squid and The Brain That Changes Itself. I'm also interested in a book I've seen called Big Brain.
Does anyone have recommendations for other cognitive science books?
I ... ... that posits the rise of Fascism in Britain - Farthing, a book of hopeful anecdotes about the brain that can change itself The Brain that Changes Itself. Also Anne Fadiman's wonderful book of essays about loving books Ex Libris. Truly an enjoyable browse.
The Outlander, Gil Adamson is a ... 10. The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, 2007
Neuroplasticity anecdotes. ... people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom
64. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
65. Helicopter man By Elizabeth Fensham
66. The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge
67. Fishing for stars by Bryce Courtenay
68. A novel: Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey ... Mineral, Barbara Kingsolver
3. Patrick White, David Marr
4. Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres
5. The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge (20/01/09)
6. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman (21/01/09)
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9. ... read without writing a more formal review. I sometimes discuss a book or authors within the "friends'. Although I have The Brain That Changes Itself I have not read it yet and it appears that one of my sons has borrowed it. Will have to get to it soon (after it comes back). If find this ... ... get to discuss them with someone else, or were you satisfied with just having your list? Bonnie
P.S. Have you read The Brain That Changes Itself? Actually I am reading a book The Brain that Changes Itself on neuroscience and plasticity of the brain, and their theory is that the prevelence of white noise has a detrimental effect on some children. Autistic children apparently get input all at once, and not in sequences, as most people do. So ... ... ending.
Best non-fiction: Born on a Blue Day by Tammet -- Autobiography by a savant with Asperger's and synethesia
or The Brain That Changes Itself by Doidge -- about the newly-found plasticity of the brain that helps us relearn to do things when the body or brain is damaged
or The G ...
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