![]() ![]() Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this audiobook is for anyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to. Along the way he explains the human brain's imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do and experience. In The Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett tours our mysterious and mischievous grey (and white) matter. And alcohol can actually improve your memory.** Conspiracy theories and superstitions are the inevitable effects of a healthy brain. Why can you recognize that woman, from that thing.but can't remember her name?Īnd why, after your last break-up, did you find yourself in the fetal position on the sofa for days, moving only to wipe the snot and tears haphazardly from your face? Here's why: the idiot brain.įor something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganized. ![]() Why do you lose arguments with people who know MUCH LESS than you? ![]()
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Orders placed via our website can be paid using any of the following methods: ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dionne Quintuplets became a more popular attraction than Niagara Falls, ogled through one-way screens by sightseers as they splashed in their wading pool at the center of a tourist hotspot known as Quintland. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the five identical babies, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family-and then, in a stunning act of hypocrisy, proceeded to exploit them for the next nine years. ![]() Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne mesmerized the globe, defying medical history with every breath they took. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world. ![]() ![]() These movies will always be interesting for fans, so we’ve revamped this list with even more information. However, some popular films have actually been adapted from short stories. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a successful author who enjoys worldwide acclaim debunking supernatural phenomena - before he checks into the Dolphin Hotel, that is. There’s rich content to draw from when creating a screen adaptation. ![]() ![]() Updated by Lauren Turner on October 9, 2022: Most movie buffs agree that movies based on books are typically excellent. Short stories have to get their messages across in fewer words than novels, so they are often full of intense, condensed imagery, and strong metaphors, which can result in striking films that make viewers wish the stories they came from went on for longer. Short fiction often simply doesn't have enough content to be brought to life in film, but when it does, it can wow viewers with its strong character development and quick plot points. RELATED: 10 Books You Should Still Read Even After Watching The Movie Adaptation Something less common, however, is seeing a film that has been adapted from a short story. Some authors, like Stephen King, are prolific in writing books that go on to be adapted for the big screen. ![]() When the credits roll, it's not surprising to see that a film was based on a novel. ![]() ![]() The last circuit – the one in which international fame can be obtained – represents an even more selective, transnational universe institutionally tied to world book fairs, international publishing houses, and international prizes. ![]() ![]() Selection and recognition here depend on editors, publishers, critics, and audiences of the receiving country. After having achieved some degree of visibility and recognition in this protected circuit, some writers succeed in obtaining access to a second circuit consisting of the respective national literary fields of the receiving countries. The first is the semi-official Dutch circuit outside of the Netherlands, socially based on Dutch-speaking groups abroad, dependent on Dutch foreign policy, and institutionally tied to embassies, institutes for Dutch culture, and university departments for Dutch language and literature. It identifies a general pattern structured by three successive circuits of selection, diffusion, valorization and recognition. This chapter explores the translation and international recognition of Dutch writers. from peripheral countries and languages to more central ones. Although book translations are overwhelmingly made from English and asmall number of other central languages, translations occasionally also flow in the opposite direction, i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() The influence of e-mail is probably also making authors squeeze and flatten their writing. Even the most academic branch of Water-stones is full of miniature books, magazines made up of extracts and novellas by novelists with demanding agents and time-pressured readers. Blimey! has line spaces between every paragraph, and splits every chapter into sub-sections. And when things get a bit too stream-of-consciousness, white space is a great redeemer. Sauntering from subject to subject, transcribing your thoughts, taking your sentences wherever you fancy. and the next thing you know it’s in a vitrine in a white gallery with intellectuals peering at it. There’s one where a teenager makes a sandwich. ![]() It’s in Benson & Hedges ads and in rock promo videos and TV ads. Now it’s full of art by young people who are in Vogue and on TV all the time. That’s the well-known restaurant in Dean Street that Damien Hirst recently redesigned. This is the first paragraph of Blimey!, a recent book about young British artists by Matthew Collings: Instead, the spareness is playful, a mocking of literary craft. But these new writers are not trying to be Hemingway: their sentences do not hint at hard, manly hours of paring down. One characteristic of this style is that it leaves things out – similes, imagery and other literary devices aren’t used, physical description is kept to a minimum. ![]() ![]() There is a kind of modern writing, mostly found in books by young novelists and books about young artists, that tries not to seem like writing at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Violet was born to boogie and as she grows up, she keeps seeking other kids who have the same affinity for a good beat. Laura Huliska-Beith received a Marion Vannett Ridgway Honor for The Book of Bad Ideas. Violet’s Music,by Angela Johnson and Laura Huliska-Beith When Violet was a baby, she banged her rattle against the crib, hoping others in the nursery would join in. Writer: Angela Johnson, Laura Huliska-BeithĪbout the AuthorAngela Johnson's previous picture books include the Coretta Scott King Honor Book When I Am Old With You and the ALA Notable Book Julius. Other Information: Illustrations, unspecifiedĭimensions: 28.8 x 22.3 x 1.1 centimeters (0.43 kg) ![]() ![]() Violet's Music sings to us that the right friend is always out there-as long as we keep looking and hoping, and above all, staying true to ourselves. And then one summer day.īright, lively, and lyrical, this is a book for kids who march to a different drummer. But where are the other kids like her-kids who think and dream music all day long? As a baby, in kindergarten, at the beach and the zoo, she never gives up looking for companions. There's nothing Violet loves more than music, and she plays or sings every chance she gets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He embodies all the qualities I would associate with the quintessential dwarf – limited height, long beard, brave and fierce in battle and of course that ingrained enmity towards elves. So which dwarf immediately sprung to mind? For me it was Gimli from the movie version of The Lord of the Rings. And no one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.Quick, think of a dwarf! Any dwarf will do. Although he has many unanswered questions, Tungdil is certain of one thing: no matter where he was raised, he is a true dwarf. Not only his own safety, but the life of every man, woman and child in Girdlegard depends upon his ability to embrace his heritage. Sent out into the world to deliver a message and reacquaint himself with his people, the young foundling finds himself thrust into a battle for which he has not been trained. ![]() ![]() Although he does not want for friends, Tungdil is very much aware that he is alone - indeed, he has not so much as set eyes on another dwarf. Until now.Ībandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith labors contentedly in the land of Ionandar, the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. Many and varied foes have hurled themselves against the portal and died attempting to breach it. For countless millennia, the dwarves of the Fifthling Kingdom have defended the stone gateway into Girdlegard. ![]() ![]() Some funny books draw their humor from the ways in which they expose us to the absurdity of other people. We know only that the group has been converging on the same hotel for 16 years, dedicating a single weekend annually to the re-creation of that fateful play - forgoing the actual bone breaking. It isn’t performed to reimagine the outcome or to analyze what went wrong. No explanation is given about the reenactment tradition, how it started or why. To wit: “NovemWashington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, 36, suffers a career-ending compound fracture of the right leg on a sack by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor during a telecast of ABC’s ‘Monday Night Football.’” Kennedy’s assassination, the Challenger explosion or 9/11. ![]() They remember it the same way some of us remember John F. So I was simultaneously repelled and attracted by the setup for the novel “The Throwback Special”: middle-aged men meet to reenact one single play from one single football game. ![]() In the small town where I grew up in Texas, high school football - Go, Hillsboro Eagles! - was so essential to our culture that, to this day, when old friends get together I inevitably suffer through painfully detailed recollections of games that should, by all rights, have been long forgotten by now. ![]() ![]() The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. Num Pages: 64 pages, colour illustrations. A poor tailor has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Illustrator(s): Potter, Beatrix.
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