In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients' memories, blind people who see through their tongues. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents - and see how victims coped.
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But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. I like to think about how things are connected and so that runs through the story, too. Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer ( 63 ) 7.99 Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. I wanted to write a story about people who found connection to each other through their own particular losses so hopefully, kids will understand they're not alone with their big feelings.īut again, writing is a stew of lots of things - I love the mountains and so I put them in and I love art, so I put that in, too. I figured if I'd had those experiences as a child, other children had too. The memory of those losses and the confusion that went with them was an inspiration for me to share. The deeper answer is that there was some loss I experienced as a child, well actually, a lot of losses all at one time. I sat down and wrote about ten pages and was curious to find out more. The easy answer is I woke up one morning with the main character in my mind and her circumstances, the loss of her mother. The easy answer is I woke up one morning with the main character in my mind and her circumstances, the loss of her …more A book is a bit of a stew of ideas. Tracy Holczer A book is a bit of a stew of ideas. For the first time since being shipped back home from Vietnam, James is captivated. The young, mysterious, unbeatable big wave surfer is the man that nobody on the surf circuit can stop whispering about. But his best laid plans are upended completely when two-time Billabong Pipeline Masters Champion Danny Moore steps up next to James on the starting line. It's his chance to finally reclaim his life, move on from the war, and make a living doing the only thing that keeps him from walking away from it all. The young, mysterious, unbeatable big wave surfer is the man that nobody on the surf circuit can stop whispering about.įor James Campbell, winning the 1976 International Surf Competition is the ticket to his future. For James Campbell, winning the 1976 International Surf Competition is the ticket to his future. Only then will it be possible to stop the present series of gruesome killings, but will they be able to do so before the killer ensnares his next victim? Barnes, Foster, and Jenkins enter a race against time and before the end of the investigation, one of them will get much too close for comfort. With no clues to be found in the present, Barnes must now search the archives of the past to solve the mystery behind a string of 100 year old murders. As one after another victim is found in various locations all over London, each with a different mutilation but the same index number carved into their skin, Barnes and the police work frantically to figure out how the corresponding files are connected. Family historian Nigel Barnes is put on the case. When the naked, mutilated body of a man is found in a Notting Hill graveyard and the police investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his colleague Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins yields few results, a closer look at the corpse reveals that what looked at first glance like superficial knife wounds on the victim’s chest is actually a string of carved letters and numbers, an index number referring to a file in city archives containing birth and death certificates and marriage licenses. An overly sentimental, staunch Irish Nationalist, he is a poor role model for his son. Simon Dedalus Stephen's ineffectual father a good-natured, but weak and undependable man who prefers to live in the self-deluded reveries of his past rather than fulfill the role of a responsible parent. He leaves Ireland for the Continent, in search of his artistic soul. Finally, he vows to escape all forms of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual repression. Eventually, Stephen feels himself becoming increasingly isolated from others. Later, he is troubled when he realizes the ineffectiveness and emptiness of both Irish nationalism and Catholicism. Like many sensitive young men, Stephen is ashamed of his family's ever-strained finances. Stephen Dedalus Afflicted with poor eyesight and lacking both physical stamina and athletic prowess, Stephen develops an early, introspective, intellectual curiosity. Most of the following characters in the novel are based on people who actually existed in Joyce's life in almost every case, he portrayed them as fictional representations of religious, social, and cultural elements of Ireland as they influenced Stephen Dedalus, a maturing, sensitive young artist. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, strictly speaking, is not an autobiographical novel, and yet in the novel, Joyce attempts to weave much of the fabric of his real life into an artful tapestry of fiction. The result is a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in a New York not so different from today's. Davy Crockett meets Edgar Allan Poeand together they set out in search of Baltimore’s 1830s equivalent of John Wayne Gacy: a gothic thriller (and first hardcover fiction) from Schechter (Depraved: The Shocking Story of America’s First Serial Killer, 1994, etc.) Poe, known today mainly as macabre poet and storyteller, was in fact one of the most feared literary critics of the 19th. Schechter expertly weaves a rich historical tapestry-exploring everything from the birth of “yellow” journalism to the history of poison as a murder weapon-without sacrificing a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense. The ensuing investigation and sensational trial became one of the costliest in New York State history. But when one of Molineux's romantic competitors, Henry Barnet, died, Cornish was poisoned (he survived) and his landlady died, Roland topped the list of suspects. Pursuing women with the same determination he brought to sports, Roland doggedly wooed Blanche Chesebrough, an equally ambitious young woman with operatic aspirations. Roland Molineux, a socially ambitious chemist,was a proud member of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, where he was considered a talented but snooty sportsman, repeatedly instigating spats with the club's athletic director, Harry Cornish. ) delivers a thrilling account of a murder case that rocked Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century. True-crime historian Schechter (co-author, The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers She has no time for matters of the heart while war looms, yet attraction, affection, companionship, and desire still tug at Askia if she lets her guard down. I particularly loved how she handled the various male relationships throughout the book.Īskia has spent most of her life surrounded by men, but it isn’t until she needs to befriend a prince that she understands that relationships can be messy. Kelly does a stellar job of conveying the main character’s driving forces, while also showing us complex emotions and the constant struggles between wants and needs. Death and duty push Askia to demand the world go to war, but when the bill comes due, will she truly be willing to pay the cost? As she seeks an alliance with the southern emperor and his court, her inexperience and impatience isolates her from those in power. The main character, Askia, may be the heir to the Frozen Crown, but she’s a warrior and an untrained death witch, not an experienced royal skilled in politics and scheming. It’s based in an expansive world with depth and history. The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly is the first book of the Warrior Witch Duology. LTU: Let’s begin at the most basic level. UNH Today: This year’s theme is “Be Bold For Change.” What do you see as the key changes still needed for women? The need for protests - and other concentrated efforts to bring about change - has not passed. The idea emerged, I believe, from working women’s protests in the early 20 th century. LTU: There are always things to celebrate, but I am not sure celebration has been the central focus of International Women’s Day. Do you have a sense of how much there is to celebrate? UNH Today: International Women's Day has been described as a time to celebrate women’s economic, political and social achievements. Here at UNH, recalling the steps taken to reach the day that is now celebrated around the world on March 8, we can’t help but think of the words written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, ’80 G: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” We asked her to share her thoughts on International Women’s Day. In 1917, International Women’s Day in Russia had women in Saint Petersburg demanding an end to food shortages and czarism. The history of International Women’s Day was built on the shoulders of those who supported women garment workers in New York City in 1909, and the 100 attendees of a women’s conference in Denmark a year later who wanted to advance equal rights and suffrage for women. Box was used by the publisher as packaging, therefore has the address label and the publisher franking label. comies in the ORIGINAL BOX, QUILL AND INK, ALL PROMOTIONAL ITEMS ISSUED WITH THE PROOF. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Funny, surprising and fantastical, with an unforgettable cast of characters, "Fly By Night" contains at its heart an inspiring truth - that the power of books can change the world. With suspicion and peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a shocking plot to force a rule of terror on the people of the Realm, and all too soon merry mayhem leads to murder. But the city is in uproar, for someone is once again printing seditious material and no one is quite what they seem. With Eponymous Clent, a smooth-tongued swindler, she heads for the city of Mandelion, living by her wits among highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers, secret agents and radical plotters. Now he is dead, and Mosca is on the run, in search of a better life. Mosca Mye has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a large and homicidal goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a revolution. Her art exhibition in the New York Public Library in 1923 was the true beginning of her fame. In 1917, she illustrated A Child’s Book of Folk-Lore, following which she worked on many different projects and became a well-known artist and author. After graduating in 1912, she taught country school in Springfield, Minnesota, from November 1912 to June 1913. Despite this pressure, Gág continued her studies. When Gág was 15, her father died of tuberculosis his final words to her were: "Was der Papa nicht thun konnt', muss die Wanda halt fertig machen." ("What Papa couldn't do, Wanda will have to finish.") Following Anton's death the family was on welfare, and some townspeople thought that Gág should quit high school and get a steady job to help support her family. Gág grew up the eldest of these, and despite their economic hardships, the family was surrounded by music, art, light, and love, making it for the most part a joyous existence. They had seven children, who all acquired some level of artistic talent. Both parents were artists who had met in Germany. Her mother, Elisabeth Biebl, and father, Anton, were of Bohemian descent. She was born on March 11, 1893, in New Ulm, Minnesota. Wanda Hazel Gág (pronounced GOG) was an American author and illustrator. |