Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds - Hardcover

Burrell, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385501285 ISBN 13: 9780385501286

Verlag: Broadway Books, 2005

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Shelf wear to dust jacket, owner's inscription and short review on the front endpaper. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Reseña del editor:

Traces the near-obsessive nineteenth-century research of top scientific minds to locate possible anatomical signs of genius, criminal behavior, and insanity, discussing the posthumous brain examinations of such figures as Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, and Vladimir Lenin. 30,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

BRIAN BURRELL teaches mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The author of The Words We Live By and Damn the Torpedoes, he has appeared on C-SPAN's Booknotes with Brian Lamb and the Today show. He makes his home in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385501285
• ISBN 13: 9780385501286
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356