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Fascinating science blends with engaging prose in this highly entertaining exploration of how memory works-- and how to make it work better.
In this extraordinary book, scientist Rebecca Rupp explains how and why memory works the way it does. What are the chemical processes that occur in the brain when we remember--and how do they account for the "absentminded" or "steel trap" qualities in an individual? Rupp also tackles topics...
About the Author
REBECCA RUPP has a Ph.D. in cell biology, has written for many professional journals and national magazines, and has published several books. She lives in Vermont with her husband and three sons, with whom she shares a tractor, a telescope, and a toboggan. Alliteration helps her remember, though mostly she forgets things unless she writes them down.
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A scientist with the knack of transforming the complex and abstract into the simple and concrete engagingly explains what science now knows about memory. Rupp, who has a doctorate in cell biology and biochemistry, is also no stranger to world literature. She draws on anyone who suits her purposes, spiking her text with quotes from Cervantes and George Carlin, Machiavelli and Agatha Christie. And she has a...
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0517703211
- ISBN 13 9780517703212
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages331
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