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Struck by Genius

How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

by Jason Padgett, Maureen Seaberg ...

From head trauma to scientific wonder—a "deeply absorbing . . . fascinating" true story of acquired savant syndrome ( Entertainment Weekly).Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain worked. It turned an ordinary math-averse student into an extraordinary young man with a unique gift to see the world as no one else ... Read more

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From head trauma to scientific wonder—a "deeply absorbing . . . fascinating" true story of acquired savant syndrome ( Entertainment Weekly).Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain worked. It turned an ordinary math-averse student into an extraordinary young man with a unique gift to see the world as no one else
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Struck by Genius

How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

by Jason Padgett, Maureen Ann Seaberg ...

Narrated by Jeff Cummings, Kate Rudd ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the ... Read more

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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the
... Read more

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A Fancy Dinner Party: Feast of Horrors

by Hilary Comfort (Ed.), Gabrielle Alan, H. C. H. Ritz, B. H. Werner, Leo King, Austin Malone, Lee Lackey, Wayne Basta, Amy Theacasi, Jason Kristopher, George Wright Padgett ...

With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, this collection serves horror that gets under your skin—and stays there.What's on the menu tonight? Something unexpected. Something forbidden.Twelve deliciously disturbing tales await your consumption in this horror anthology where dinner becomes deadly and appetite turns sinister. From Victorian steam tunnels harboring ... Read more

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With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, this collection serves horror that gets under your skin—and stays there.What's on the menu tonight? Something unexpected. Something forbidden.Twelve deliciously disturbing tales await your consumption in this horror anthology where dinner becomes deadly and appetite turns sinister. From Victorian steam tunnels harboring
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Midnight in Siberia

A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

by David Greene ...

Narrated by David Greene ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

After two and a half years as NPR’s Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country—a 6,000 mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok—to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline—grabbing protests in Moscow, Green speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager ... Read more

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After two and a half years as NPR’s Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country—a 6,000 mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok—to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline—grabbing protests in Moscow, Green speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager
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A Burnt-out Case

by Graham Greene ...

Narrated by Richard Morant ...

Unabridged

7 hours 16 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for
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My Stroke of Insight

A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Jill Bolte Taylor ...

**"Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."—ABC NewsThe astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment**On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her ... Read more

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**"Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."—ABC NewsThe astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment**On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her
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Three Moments of an Explosion

Stories

by China Miéville ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it ... Read more

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it
... Read more

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The Believing Brain

From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

by Michael Shermer ...

"A wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief." —Sam Harris, New York Times–bestselling author of The Moral Landscape and The End of FaithIn this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form ... Read more

$14.39 USD

"A wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief." —Sam Harris, New York Times–bestselling author of The Moral Landscape and The End of FaithIn this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form
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In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 26

by Patora Fuyuhara ...

Series Book 26 - In Another World With My Smartphone
With eight children in tow, Touya’s got no shortage of distractions! But he has a kingdom to run, and he can't let familial fuss keep him away from his civic duties! As issues both domestic and international pile up, how will Touya cope with the burdens of rulership with nearly two handfuls of obstinate offspring to worry about? And what of the wicked devout, who continue their malicious ... Read more

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With eight children in tow, Touya’s got no shortage of distractions! But he has a kingdom to run, and he can't let familial fuss keep him away from his civic duties! As issues both domestic and international pile up, how will Touya cope with the burdens of rulership with nearly two handfuls of obstinate offspring to worry about? And what of the wicked devout, who continue their malicious
... Read more
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?

Inside My Autistic Mind

by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay ...

An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he ... Read more

$10.99 USD

An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he
... Read more
Vanished

A Greywalker Novel

by Kat Richardson ...

Series Book 4 - Greywalker
The toughest case yet for Greywalker Harper Blaine...Why did Seattle investigator Harper Blaine-as opposed to others with near-death experiences-become a Greywalker? When Harper digs into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. Forced by some very demanding vampires to take on an investigation in London, she soon discovers ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The toughest case yet for Greywalker Harper Blaine...Why did Seattle investigator Harper Blaine-as opposed to others with near-death experiences-become a Greywalker? When Harper digs into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. Forced by some very demanding vampires to take on an investigation in London, she soon discovers
... Read more
The Intention Experiment

Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

by Lynne McTaggart ...

Drawing on the findings of leading scientists from around the world, “The Intention Experiment is an extraordinary advance in our understanding of consciousness as a field of all possibilities where intention orchestrates its own fulfillment. If you want to empower yourself and use the laws of intention to manifest your material reality, read this book” (Deepak Chopra).Using cutting-edge research ... Read more

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Drawing on the findings of leading scientists from around the world, “The Intention Experiment is an extraordinary advance in our understanding of consciousness as a field of all possibilities where intention orchestrates its own fulfillment. If you want to empower yourself and use the laws of intention to manifest your material reality, read this book” (Deepak Chopra).Using cutting-edge research
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