The Man Who Forgot How To Read

Author : Howard Engel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429986727
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Forgot How to Read written by Howard Engel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable journey of an award-winning writer struck with a rare and devastating affliction that prevented him from reading even his own writing One hot midsummer morning, novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that while he could still write, he could no longer read. Over the next several weeks in hospital and in rehabilitation, Engel discovered that much more was affected than his ability to read. His memory failed him, and even the names of old friends escaped his tongue. At first geography eluded him: he would know that two streets met somewhere in the city, but he couldn't imagine where. Apples and grapefruit now looked the same. When he returned home, he had trouble remembering where things went and would routinely ?nd cans of tuna in the dishwasher and jars of pencils in the freezer. Despite his disabilities, Engel prepared to face his dilemma. He contacted renowned neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks for advice and visited him in New York City, forging a lasting friendship. He bravely learned to read again. And in the face of tremendous obstacles, he triumphed in writing a new novel. An absorbing and uplifting story, filled with sly wit and candid insights, The Man Who Forgot How to Read will appeal to anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the mind, on and off the page.

Author : Genghis Swan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977639738
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Forgot How to Poop written by Genghis Swan and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient superhero has kept this world safe for eons, but he's about to square off against his toughest opponent yet...his own pooper. This book answers the age-old question of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable bowel movement. Dive into an adventure that will tug on your heartstrings, challenge your perception of reality, and educate you on the importance of defecation.

Author : John O'Farrell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409031020
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Forgot His Wife written by John O'Farrell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary. But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has ever told him, everything he has said to her - it has all gone, mysteriously wiped in one catastrophic moment of memory loss. And now he has rediscovered her - only to find out that they are getting divorced. The Man Who Forgot His Wife is the funny, moving and poignant story of a man who has done just that. And who will try anything to turn back the clock and have one last chance to reclaim his life.

Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917148
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read written by Pierre Bayard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.

Author : Isaiah Wilner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061747262
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Time Forgot written by Isaiah Wilner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started Time, the first newsmagazine, at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. By age thirty, they were both millionaires, having laid the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership was explosive and their competition ferocious, fueled by envy as well as love. When Hadden died at the age of thirty-one, Luce began to meticulously bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best. In this groundbreaking, stylish, and passionate biography, Isaiah Wilner paints a fascinating portrait of Briton Hadden—genius and visionary—and presents the first full account of the birth of Time, while offering a provocative reappraisal of Henry R. Luce, arguably the most significant media figure of the twentieth century. Isaiah Wilner is a writer for New York magazine. He attended Yale University and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Howard Engel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031238209X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Forgot How to Read written by Howard Engel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Engel woke to a morning newspaper that was unreadable. He had experienced a stroke as he slept, leaving him unable to read, not even the books he himself had written. This uplifting story chronicles how he overcame this and the other effects of the stroke to read - and write another novel.

Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804171645
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We See When We Read written by Peter Mendelsund and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. “A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature—he considers himself first and foremost as a reader—into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.

Author : Lawrence Weschler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520045958
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees written by Lawrence Weschler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Author : Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576223
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind of a Mnemonist written by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome re-issue of an English translation of Alexander Luria's famous case-history of hypermnestic man. The study remains the classic paradigm of what Luria called 'romantic science,' a genre characterized by individual portraiture based on an assessment of operative psychological processes. The opening section analyses in some detail the subject's extraordinary capacity for recall and demonstrates the association between the persistence of iconic memory and a highly developed synaesthesia. The remainder of the book deals with the subject's construction of the world, his mental strengths and weaknesses, his control of behaviour and his personality. The result is a contribution to literature as well as to science. (Psychological Medicine ).

Author : Denis Boyles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060952245
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Lore of a Man's Life written by Denis Boyles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-04-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time was, a man had to know certain things in this life. He had to use his callused hands and the knowledge passed down through the generations to carve a homestead from the wilderness and to feed his family by hunting and trapping animals or coaxing crops from the earth. But today, as men trade hammer and ax for computer and fax, and a cabin in the woods for a place in the burbs, these manly skills are in danger of disappearing forever. To the rescue comes Denis Boyles, columnist for Men's Health magazine, with a priceless treasury of forgotten lore and dozens of projects designed to rekindle that dying ember of machismo. Culled from U.S. government pamphlets, turn-of-the-century publications and old scouting manuals, this guide to lost lore contains projects on camping, hunting and fishing, farming and much more. Such skills as sending smoke signals, tracking a bobcat or moose, turning a bike into a steam-powered motorcycle and building a cozy log cabin are all included. In a world full of mama's boys, The Lost Lore of a Man's Life is the ultimate guide to reclaiming a man's lost heritage.