Memory: How We Use It, Lose It and Can Improve It

by David Samuel

Few things are as essential to our lives-and as apparently unfathomable-as our memories. As Jane Austen's heroine Fanny Price remarks in Mansfield Park, "if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory . . . sometimes so retentive and so serviceable, so obedient-and at others so bewildered and so weak."
In Memory, David Samuel draws on a lifetime of scientific research to produce...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814781454
• ISBN13: 9780814781456
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"