In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists & sanctions It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world Drawing both on his own family's stories & his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present & of how the world might transform the country's future In The River of Lost Footsteps Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma in part through a telling of his own family's history in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical dramatic & appalling His maternal grandfather U Thant rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s & on his father's side the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries Through their stories & others he portrays Burma's rise & decline in the modern world from the time of Portuguese pirates & renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism the devastation of World War II a sixty-year civil war that continues today military repression & the emergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal & global a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible & enthralling Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India & has written articles for the New York Times the Washington Post & the New Statesman ...

Something was approaching the burrow Something deadly Something that made Sylvan's fur bristle with fear Knowing their lives are under threat Sylvan & his brother & sisters have no choice but to abandon their burrow for ever Together they set out on an epic journey along the Great River; but with dangers lurking at every turn will they ever find a safe place to call home? Now available in paperback this exciting & beautifully-illustrated animal adventure has the makings of a future children's classic ' Just the sort of book I would have loved as a child' Gill Lewis ...

Meet animal lover Tiger Days! A br&-new young fiction series about animals friendship & adventure by bestselling author Sarah Lean Beautiful black-&-white illustrations throughout When Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what to expect Tiger meets Lucky
- an injured otter who can't survive by himself Tiger has an important job to do
- feeding & caring for Lucky & also exploring the riverbank in search of the perfect place for him to live She desperately wants Lucky to get better but saying goodbye to her new friend won't be easy No day is ever dull for Tiger!

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During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies
- Germany Italy & Japan Few areas of the world experienced domination
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A delicious adventure'
- Daily Mail Murder on the Riviera Express Gerald Hennessey
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The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived partied bed-hopped & politicked at the Chateau de l' Horizon near Cannes over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960 At the heart of this was the amazing Maxine Elliott the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut who built the beautiful art deco Chateau & brought together the likes of Noel Coward the Aga Khan the Windsors & two very saucy courtesans Doris Castlerosse & Daisy Fellowes who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism & biographies during his 'wilderness years' in the thirties After the War the story continued as the Chateau changed hands & Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set as well as launch his seduction of & eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth Mary Lovell tells her story of high society behaviour with tremendous brio & relish & this book has all the charm & fascination of her bestselling The Mitford Girls & The Churchills ...

So good that it will devour you It is incandescent
- Daily Telegraph The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac
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This book is an ethnographic & historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway But more than an ethnography on the road it is an anthropology of the road Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that

Includes:: houses urban architecture & vehicles Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security nationalist politics post-Cold War capitalism & financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete This book explores anew classical anthropological & sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure providing unique insights into the political & cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War More specifically it sheds light on political & economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period focusing especially on Albania one of the most under-researched countries in the region --

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