The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars - 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 Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars write by Paul Broks. This book was released on 2018-07-03. The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind – its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person – with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth. But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician—patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal, he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.
Into the Silent Land
Into the Silent Land - 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 Into the Silent Land write by Paul Broks. This book was released on 2003. Into the Silent Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Broks draws on his 15 years as a neuropsychologist to present a narrative about memory and personal identity. Macabre yet humane, unsettling but affecting, he writes about the experiences of his patients, and his experience as their psychologist. The stories are those of ordinary people whose extraordinary illnesses have much to say to everyone about who and what we are. They are also about chance, compassion, human fallibility and eccentricity.
The End of Night
The End of Night - 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 End of Night write by Paul Bogard. This book was released on 2013-07-09. The End of Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. From Las Vegas' Luxor Beam -- the brightest single spot on this planet -- to nights so starlit the sky looks like snow, Bogard blends personal narrative, natural history, science, and history to shed light on the importance of darkness -- what we've lost, what we still have, and what we might regain -- and the simple ways we can reduce the brightness of our nights tonight.
Darker the Night
Darker the Night - 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 Darker the Night write by Lisa London. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Darker the Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by a true story, this tale tracks an extraordinary young woman persevering through the challenges World War II as a German civilian. As the pride in her country is shattered with the news of the Nazi atrocities, her father reminds her, "The darker the night, the brighter the stars."
Let There Be Night
Let There Be Night - 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 Let There Be Night write by Paul Bogard. This book was released on 2008-08-18. Let There Be Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty-nine writers, poets, scientists, and scholars testify on behalf of darkness and against light pollution's diminishment of the night.
