Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell about Our Pasts

by Charles Fernyhough

Book Overview

Short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, the Best Book of Ideas Prize, and the Society of Biology Book Awards - Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Sunday Express, and New Scientist

"In its stunning blend of the literary with the scientific, Pieces of Light illuminates ordinary and extraordinary stories to remind us that who we are now has everything to do with who we were once, and that identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006223790X
• ISBN13: 9780062237903
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"