A Brain Wider Than the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brain Wider Than the Sky write by Andrew Levy. This book was released on 2009-05-26. A Brain Wider Than the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With more than one in ten Americans -- and more than one in five families -- affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent and often ignored or misdiagnosed. By his mid-forties, Andrew Levy's migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that he'd wrestled with half his life, though he had not fully contemplated their physical and psychological influence on the individual, family, and society at large. Then in 2006 Levy was struck almost daily by a series of debilitating migraines that kept him essentially bedridden for months, imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light. When possible, Levy kept careful track of what triggered an onset -- the "thin, taut" pain from drinking a bourbon, the stabbing pulse brought on by a few too many M&M's -- and in luminous prose recounts his struggle to live with migraines, his meticulous attempts at calibrating his lifestyle to combat and avoid them, and most tellingly, the personal relationship a migraineur develops -- an almost Stockholm syndrome-like attachment -- with the indescribable pain, delirium, and hallucinations. Levy read about personalities and artists throughout history with migraine -- Alexander Pope, Nietzsche, Freud, Virginia Woolf, even Elvis -- and researched the treatments and medical advice available for migraine sufferers. He candidly describes his rehabilitation with the aid of prescription drugs and his eventual reemergence into the world, back to work and writing. An enthralling blend of memoir and provocative analysis, A Brain Wider Than the Sky offers rich insights into an illness whose effects are too often discounted and whose sufferers are too often overlooked.
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brain is Wider Than the Sky write by Bryan Appleyard. This book was released on 2012. The Brain is Wider Than the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us to be simpler, to be 'machine readable'. It is time, says Bryan Appleyard, to resist, and to reclaim the full depth of human experience. We are, he argues, naturally complex creatures, we are only ever at home in complexity. Through art and literature we see ourselves in ways that machines never can. He makes an impassioned plea for the voices of art to be heard before those of the technocrats.
Wider Than the Sky
Wider Than the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wider Than the Sky write by Gerald M. Edelman. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Wider Than the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Wider Than the Sky presents an analysis of the brain activities underlying consciousness that is based on remarkable recent advances in biochemistry, immunology, medical imaging, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. But the implications of this rewarding book extend farther, well beyond the worlds of science and medicine into virtually every area of human inquiry."--BOOK JACKET.
Spencer Finch
Spencer Finch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spencer Finch write by Susan Cross. This book was released on 2016. Spencer Finch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Artist Spencer Finch is internationally celebrated for his transportive studies of light and color. This books looks at over two decades of work that investigates the nature of perception and its mysteries.
Wider than the Sky
Wider than the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wider than the Sky write by Nancy Chen Long. This book was released on 2020-03-04. Wider than the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her second book Wider Than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long grapples with the porous and slippery nature of memory and mind. Through form and content, the poems in the book mimic memory, its recursive and sometimes surreal qualities—how recalling one memory resurrects a different memory, which then jumps to another memory, and then another, each memory connected by the thinnest of wisps—as well as memory’s mutability—conflicting memories among family members, changes in the collective memory of a society, a buried memory that is resurrected when one catches the scent of a forgotten perfume. Wider Than the Sky explores the role of memory in identity, how the physical aspects of the brain impact who we are, and how who we are—both individually and as a society—is, in one sense, a narrative. These poems delve into the mind’s need for narrative in order to make sense of the world and how a society uses stories and myth to help its members remember a lesson, a preferred behavior, or their position in the social scale.
