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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Neurocomic – April 15 2014


Neurocomic Hardcover – April 15, 2014

Author: Visit Amazons Hana Ros Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1907704701 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Even if Farinella’s artwork is pretty crude, the fact that he and coauthor Roš are bona fide PhD-holding neuroscientists assures that they know what they’re talking about. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, they depict the adventures of a young man who, by means of a pretty girl reading a book, falls into what seems to be a forest but is actually the brain. There he meets a couple of Nobel laureate scientists who explain brain morphology to him before sending him into a neuron, where more top researchers elucidate brain pharmacology. After inadvertently overindulging there, he plunges into a cell and, thereby, brain electrophysiology. Further episodes acquaint him with plasticity and synchronicity in the brain before he is reunited in an epilogue with the pretty girl. The information relayed is sufficiently genuine for the book to be a neophyte’s primer on brain science, and the manner of its presentation is certainly exciting enough to sustain interest. Though Farinella’s drawing chops leave something to be desired, this handy introduction to neuroscience is a handsome artifact. --Ray Olson

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"This remarkable collaboration between Dr. Hana Roš (and dog knows I love few things more than a female neuroscientist) and neuroscience-PhD-turned-illustrator Dr. Matteo Farinella, with support from the Wellcome Trust, explains the inner workings of the brain in delightful and illuminating black-and-white illustrations, covering everything from perception and hallucinations to memory and emotional recall to consciousness and the difference between the mind and the brain." - Brain Pickings

"I wish there was more of this art/science crossover in science books, don’t you?" - Its Okay To Be Smart

"...incredibly informative and obviously expertly presented. Its two young creators --- she earned her Ph.D. in 2007, he obtained his in 2013 --- lend expertise and authenticity to the project, which was no doubt a labor of love for them both. The comics format allows them to have a great deal of fun with the material, which is enjoyable for the reader as such heady topics as “Is my mind something else than the brain? Or is the mind just a product of my brain?” are covered. If you’re at all interested in the question of what makes you truly you, this is the comic to help you better understand both the answer and the question." - Graphic Novel Reporter

"This is a book for laymen and beginner students, not experts, but if you’re interested in taking a surreal but simple trip through the incredibly complicated landscape inside your skull, this might be the rabbit hole you’re looking for." - Wired

"By turning neurons into trees, the depths of memory into caves, and the mind’s self-deceptiveness into a haunted castle, Roš and Farinella take you on a visual and verbal rollercoaster ride into your own brain in hopes of bringing the non-brain surgeons of the world closer to cutting through all the scientific jargon and considering the big questions of brain versus mind, how we remember, and how we become who we are. A mind trip in every sense of the word, Neurocomic gets into your head to get you into your own head." - The Big Think

"While the concepts are still probably heady for a casual reader to immerse themselves in, Neurocomic is great for someone with a predisposed interest in science, especially young adult readers. A book like this can be an excellent gateway for young minds into further scientific studies." - Mental Floss

"The book is a psychological and anatomical Alice in Wonderland where a central male figure with a cartoonishly large head and very amusing facial expressions encounters a “force” pulling him into a cheerful-looking young woman’s brain on a sunny day. Thereafter he finds himself in a “dense forest” of the mind, or the brain, to be more exact. Here his tutorials begin, because if he ever wants to escape, he must map the brain with the aid of significant neuroscientists throughout history who he encounters. " - Bleeding Cool
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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Nobrow Press (April 15, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1907704701
  • ISBN-13: 978-1907704703
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
    • #13 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Educational & Nonfiction
    • #16 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Neurology > Neuroscience
    • #48 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Anatomy

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

A Three Dog Life – September 15 2007


A Three Dog Life Paperback – September 15, 2007

Author: Visit Amazons Abigail Thomas Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0156033232 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Stephen Kings front-cover endorsement of Thomass memoir as the best hes ever read—and a "punch to the heart"—will surely pique interest in this wrenching, elegiac portrait of her third husband, Rich, who flounders in a miasmic present after a hit-and-run in their Manhattan neighborhood shatters his skull, destroys his short-term memory and consigns him to permanent brain trauma. A deft balance of fevered pathos and dark humor link this memoir, in spirit and theme, to Safekeeping, Thomass collected vignettes that memorialize her second husband. But Thomas also finds wellsprings of inspiration in her tragicomic interactions with Rich and in the self-reliance shes forced to develop, aided by her faithful dogs (the books title adapts an aboriginal phrase, derived from the tradition of cuddling with dogs on frigid nights). Rich—himself reminiscent of a Stephen King eccentric—utters eerily prescient, absurdly poetic non sequiturs, probing the essence of time and love with ingenuous intuition, though his acute paranoia and confusion make these exchanges truly heartbreaking. Thomass quick-cutting chronology and confessional narration subtly re-enacts the soupiness of her husbands mind, even as she quietly thanks him for the wisdom of living in the present. (Sept.)
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In these exquisitely written essays Thomas reflects on how her marriage had to be reinvented after the night her husband, Richard, took their dog, Harry, out for a walk, and Harry came home alone. Richard had been hit by a car and was lying bleeding in the street. The traumatic head injury he suffered didnt kill him, as attending police had predicted it would, but it rendered him susceptible to large-scale memory loss, hallucinations, and such wild rages that Thomas was forced to commit him to an institution. Lesser events have destroyed relationships, so it would not be surprising to learn that Thomas abandoned Richard. She didnt. Instead, she sold their New York apartment, moved upstate to be near him, and acquired two more dogs to keep her company. Whats more, she cant imagine life without her husband, saying, "It would be like falling through space with a parachute but no planet to land on." Thomas has elevated what could be, at best, an overemotional sermon or, at worst, a grim romp in self-pity to a high plain of true inspiration. Donna Chavez
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Mariner Books; 1 edition (September 15, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0156033232
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156033237
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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