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Small Memories

José Saramago
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Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547541549

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The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness recalls the days of his youth in Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside in this charming memoir. José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young José. Small Memories traces the formation of a man who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world’s most respected writers. Shifting between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this mosaic of memories looks back into the author’s boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family’s blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago’s early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read to poring over a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.

Memories of Silk and Straw

Junichi Saga
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Author : Junichi Saga
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0870119885

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Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.

Memory: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan K. Foster
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Author : Jonathan K. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192806758

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"Why can we sometimes remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? How are memories stored in the brain, and how does our memory change as we age? What happens when our memory goes wrong, and how easy is it for others to manipulate our memories?" "This fascinating Very Short Introduction brings together the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to address these and many other important questions about the science of memory - revealing how our memory works, why we couldn't live without it, and even how we may learn to remember more."--BOOK JACKET.

Murderous Memories

Jean Small Brinson
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Author : Jean Small Brinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Multiple personality
ISBN : 0882821261

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When a disturbed young woman with multiple personalities enters treatment with a caring psychiatrist, she relives a chaotic early life filled with hate, abuse and murder. This incredible true story begins on a tobacco farm in South Carolina. Jean Small's abusive father is lying sprawled on his bed. He looks as if he is sleeping off one of his drunken stupors, but he isn't. This time, he's dead.

Forgetting

Scott A. Small
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Author : Scott A. Small
Publisher : Crown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593136195

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“Fascinating and useful . . . The distinguished memory researcher Scott A. Small explains why forgetfulness is not only normal but also beneficial.”—Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker and Leonardo da Vinci Who wouldn’t want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast to their suffering that normal forgetting, which we experience every day, appears in sharp relief. Until recently, most everyone—memory scientists included—believed that forgetting served no purpose. But new research in psychology, neurobiology, medicine, and computer science tells a different story. Forgetting is not a failure of our minds. It’s not even a benign glitch. It is, in fact, good for us—and, alongside memory, it is a required function for our minds to work best. Forgetting benefits our cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and even our personal and societal health. As frustrating as a typical lapse can be, it’s precisely what opens up our minds to making better decisions, experiencing joy and relationships, and flourishing artistically. From studies of bonobos in the wild to visits with the iconic painter Jasper Johns and the renowned decision-making expert Daniel Kahneman, Small looks across disciplines to put new scientific findings into illuminating context while also revealing groundbreaking developments about Alzheimer’s disease. The next time you forget where you left your keys, remember that a little forgetting does a lot of good.

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

Tove Jansson
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Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590177938

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The Woman Who Borrowed Memories by Tove Jansson Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive” centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference. Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature.

Dewey

Vicki Myron
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Author : Vicki Myron
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780446542203

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Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world -- with over 2 million copies sold! (Booklist) Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old--a critical age for kittens--he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming community slowly working its way back from the greatest crisis in its long history.

How to Write Your Own Life Story

Lois Daniel
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Author : Lois Daniel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569764466

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Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.

Sweet Little Memories

Abbi Glines
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Author : Abbi Glines
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 171921073X

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Book # 3 in the Sweet Little Series. Trusting again and facing the lies that had surrounded her entire life, Beulah is ready to move on. Love and enjoy the man she's found happiness with. When the past coms back yet again with one last skeleton in the closet.

Old Ladies Are Antique Little Girls: Memories from an Antique Shop

Egretta Wells
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Author : Egretta Wells
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483443539

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Old Ladies Are Antique Little Girls: Memories from an Antique Shop by Egretta Wells Pdf

""Old Ladies Are Antique Little Girls"", by Egretta Wells, is a gem of memories from an antique shop. Egretta, with another grandmother, opened a lively little corner antique shop in Okeechobee, Florida, where they met fascinating people from many walks of life. Often humorous, her book is full of laughable incidents, adventures, and a few misadventures of two older ladies who are really antique little girls. Egretta Wells graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BS degree in Art Education, minoring in Fine Art Painting and English. She has owned several retail businesses, while pursuing a career in painting. Egretta and another grandmother found it never too late to open a thriving and fun antique shop in a small town in Florida.

Memories of the Future

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590173190

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Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Pdf

Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide”; an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train, winding up in a place where night is day, nightmares are the reality, and the backs of all facts have been broken; a man out looking for work comes across a line for logic but doesn’t join it as there’s no guarantee the logic will last; a sociable corpse misses his own funeral; an inventor gets a glimpse of the far-from-radiant communist future.

Discovering the Brain

National Academy of Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Sandra Ackerman
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Author : National Academy of Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Sandra Ackerman
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309045292

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The brain ... There is no other part of the human anatomy that is so intriguing. How does it develop and function and why does it sometimes, tragically, degenerate? The answers are complex. In Discovering the Brain, science writer Sandra Ackerman cuts through the complexity to bring this vital topic to the public. The 1990s were declared the "Decade of the Brain" by former President Bush, and the neuroscience community responded with a host of new investigations and conferences. Discovering the Brain is based on the Institute of Medicine conference, Decade of the Brain: Frontiers in Neuroscience and Brain Research. Discovering the Brain is a "field guide" to the brainâ€"an easy-to-read discussion of the brain's physical structure and where functions such as language and music appreciation lie. Ackerman examines: How electrical and chemical signals are conveyed in the brain. The mechanisms by which we see, hear, think, and pay attentionâ€"and how a "gut feeling" actually originates in the brain. Learning and memory retention, including parallels to computer memory and what they might tell us about our own mental capacity. Development of the brain throughout the life span, with a look at the aging brain. Ackerman provides an enlightening chapter on the connection between the brain's physical condition and various mental disorders and notes what progress can realistically be made toward the prevention and treatment of stroke and other ailments. Finally, she explores the potential for major advances during the "Decade of the Brain," with a look at medical imaging techniquesâ€"what various technologies can and cannot tell usâ€"and how the public and private sectors can contribute to continued advances in neuroscience. This highly readable volume will provide the public and policymakersâ€"and many scientists as wellâ€"with a helpful guide to understanding the many discoveries that are sure to be announced throughout the "Decade of the Brain."

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good
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Author : Michelle Good
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443459198

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WINNER: Canada Reads 2022 WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple Best Book of the Year; A Kobo Best Book of the Year; An Indigo Best Book of the Year Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

Memories of a Small Town

Marla (Kalb) Williams-Van Hoy,Patty Arvin Williams,Indiana Residents of Loogootee
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Author : Marla (Kalb) Williams-Van Hoy,Patty Arvin Williams,Indiana Residents of Loogootee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1949609723

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Memories of a Small Town by Marla (Kalb) Williams-Van Hoy,Patty Arvin Williams,Indiana Residents of Loogootee Pdf

Deep in the hills of Martin County, in southern Indiana, there is a town called Loogootee. It is a town rich in fond memories, sports fame, church families, family ties, and good friends. This book is a collection of stories from friends, family and neighbors from Loogootee, Indiana.

Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

M. Beyen,B. Deseure
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Author : M. Beyen,B. Deseure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137469380

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Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World by M. Beyen,B. Deseure Pdf

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors.