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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael S. Gazzaniga - Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the... |
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All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
Philip Connors - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance
Eve Pell - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Love, Again, Eve Pell beautifully and thoughtfully concludes that life experience adds dimensions to the art of connectionand that we all stand to learn something from unexpected romance. How do old people meet new loves Eve Pell was 68 when she convinced a friend to set her up with... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
David O. Stewart - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation.Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving... |
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The Autumn Balloon
Kenny Porpora - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into the sky above Long Island, one for each family member they'd lost to addiction. As the number of balloons grew, his mother fell deeper into alcoholism, drinking away her sorrows... |
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Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimers
Meryl Comer - Center Point Pub; Lrg edition
Format: Large print book
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Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand... |
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