mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Diane Keaton

A Screening, March 27, 1977 Jack and I held hands at the screening of Annie Hall. It was closing night of the Filmex Festival in Century City. The theater was ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Susan R. Barry

Tracy’s comments helped me to understand my own experiences, for there were many days when I felt both exhilaration and exhaustion. My old way of seeing had given me the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Susannah Cahalan

It was Easter weekend. On Saturday, the surgeon’s head nurse arrived to describe the preparation for the brain surgery. She seemed upbeat and managed to make the biopsy sound routine. ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Corballis, Michael C. [Corballis, Michael C.]

9 Language and Mind Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Curiously, though Penfield described such a variety of experiential hallucinations, he made no reference to what we now call “ecstatic” seizures—seizures that produce feelings of ecstasy or transcendent joy, such ...

epub, mobi | | 2008-09-04 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Part III Memory, Movement, and Music 15 In the Moment: Music and Amnesia You are the music while the music lasts. — T. S. ELIOT, The Four Quartets In January ...

epub | | 1995-03-24 | Author:Oliver Sacks

5. The Landscape of His Dreams I first met Franco Magnani in the summer of 1988, when the Exploratorium in San Francisco held a symposium and an exhibit on memory. ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Eben Alexander [Alexander, Eben]

19. Nowhere to Hide By Friday, my body had been on triple intravenous antibiotics for four full days but still wasn’t responding. Family and friends had come from all over, ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Arrowsmith-Young, Barbara [Arrowsmith-Young, Barbara]

People with learning disabilities are often told, even reassured, that adaptive technologies will allow them to get around the problem of reading and writing. And while some of this compensatory ...