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Proust and the Squid

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Neuropsychology
Unabridged   8.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/01/2008

Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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Audio CD ISBN:9781598877366
Digital Download ISBN:9781598877441

Summary

This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Product Description

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question “How do we learn to read and write?”

Reviews/Praise

“Wolf’s first book for a general audience is an eye-opening winner, and deserves a wide readership.”
      —Publishers Weekly [starred review]

“Brilliant. One of the best books I’ve encountered this year.”
      —DWD’s Reviews

Author Bio

MARYANNE WOLF is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, where she holds the John DiBiaggio Chair of Citizenship and Public Service, and is the director of the Center for Reading and Language Research. A former Fulbright Fellow, she has received numerous awards for her distinguished teaching and research, including from the American Psychological Association, International Dyslexia Association, and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.

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