Moonwalking Einstein Art Science by Joshua Foer, Signed (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED by the author. Inscribed. A copy that's been read. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. Signed neatly by the author in black marker on a PNC Wealth Management bookplate. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2011 Hardcover Signed by Foer on title page. Interior otherwise clean; binding tight. Boards VG. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good -. Gray paper covered boards, stamped titles in light gold at front and spine, light to moderate shelf wear to corners, edges, bumping to head and tail of spine, corners straight. Book body clean and tight. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author at title page. Advance publisher's promotional letter laid in at front. Illustrated dust jacket shows light shelf wear to edges and corners, some creasing to head and tail of spine, black titles at front and spine, price intact, archival Brodart protected.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New first edition hardcover, SIGNED and inscribed by Foer on the title page. Turquoise boards. Jacket As New, no edge wear, not price-clipped. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story. 307 pages. M03585. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tal Goretsky (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. A book you won't be able to forget! 271 pp. plus: Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Book has light wear at spine ends, small spot on ffep. Unclipped DJ has light top edge wear. FlatSIGNED in black ink by author below his name. Not personalized, great for gifting. Bookseller's Inventory # 210513. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New condition silver gray boards with gold front cover author initials and gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Signed by the author with thick black Sharpie/marker on a PNC Wealth Management bookplate which is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. "Moonwalking with Einstein isn't just a splendid overview of an essential aspect of our humanity - our memory; it is also a witty and engaging account of how Foer went from being a guy with an average memory to winning the U.S. Memory Championship." - Dan Ariely, author and professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. "On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," Foer learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, he discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories. Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of compepitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination - showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the memory championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity. Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes - across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe cases of amnesia on record and learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable that we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a high school in South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using twenty-five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an edge in the state Regents exam. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Signed by Author(s).