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Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as dej...-vu, near death experiences and the effect of severe trauma on memory recall, as well as human perceptions of time at different stages in life. A highly accessible and personal read, this book will not fail to touch or provoke thought in its readers.
| ISBN | 110764626X | | Weight (grammes) | 410 | | ISBN13 | 9781107646261
(What's this?) | | Published in | Cambridge | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Series title | Canto Classics | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Previous ISBN | 9780521691994 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 29 Mar 2012 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 153.13 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 288 | |
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1. 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'; 2. Flashes in the dark: first memories; 3. Smell and memory; 4. Yesterday's record; 5. The inner flashbulb; 6. 'Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?'; 7. The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky; 8. The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome; 9. The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands; 10. Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case; 11. Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life; 12. 'In oval mirrors we drive around': on experiencing a sense of dej... vu; 13. Reminiscences; 14. Why life speeds up as you get older; 15. Forgetting; 16. 'I saw my life flash before me'; 17. From memory - portrait with still life.
'... fascinating.' The Independent '... one finishes the book with a heightened awareness of the complexity and the fickleness of human memory, and a genuine sense of pleasure at having encountered such a subtle, entertaining, and illuminating guide to the territory.' Times Literary Supplement  Be the first to write a customer review
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