Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Josh

Description: Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, "Moonwalking with Einstein" recounts Foers yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalists trade to transform our understanding of human memory. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory"Highly entertaining." —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker"Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory." —The Boston GlobeAn instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foers yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalists trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the authors own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Author Biography Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the worlds wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the architectural design competition, Sukkah City. Moonwalking with Einstein is his first book. Review "Absolutely phenomenal . . . Part of the beauty of this book is that it makes clear how memory and understanding are not two different things. Building up the ability to reason and the ability to retain information go hand in hand . . . The book reminds us that we all start off with pretty much the same tools for the most part, and we can be intentional about strengthening them, or not." —Bill Gates"Captivating . . . His narrative is smart and funny and, like the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks, its informed by a humanism that enables its author to place the mysteries of the brain within a larger philosophical and cultural context." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"His passionate and deeply engrossing book . . . is a resounding tribute to the muscularity of the mind . . . In the end, Moonwalking with Einstein reminds us that though brain science is a wild frontier and the mechanics of memory little understood, our minds are capable of epic achievements." —The Washington Post"Joshua Foers book . . . is both fun and reassuring. All it takes to have a better memory, he contends, are a few tricks and a good erotic imagination." —Maureen Dowd, The New York Times"Highly entertaining." —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker"Its delightful to travel with him on this unlikely journey, and his entertaining treatment of memory as both sport and science is spot on . . . Moonwalking with Einstein proves uplifting: It shows that with motivation, focus, and a few clever tricks, our minds can do rather extraordinary things." —The Wall Street Journal"Its a terrific book: sometimes weird but mostly smart, funny, and ultimately a lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory." —Deborah Blum, New Scientist"Foers book is relevant and entertaining as he shows us ways we can unlock our own talent to remember more." —USA Today"A fascinating scientific analysis of mnemonic mysteries. What we remember, [Foer] says, defines who we are." —Entertainment Weekly"Sprightly, entertaining . . . [Foer] has a gift for communicating fairly complex ideas in a manner that is palatable without being patronizing." —Financial Times"[An] inspired and well-written debut book about not just memorization, but about what it means to be educated and the best way to become so, about expertise in general, and about the not-so-hidden secrets of acquiring skills." —The Seattle Times"[An] instant bestseller." —San Francisco Chronicle"Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory." —The Boston Globe"With originality, high energy, and an appealing blend of chutzpah and humility, [Foer] writes of his own adventures and probes the history and literature of memory, the science of how the brain functions, and the connections between memory, identity, and culture . . . Moonwalking with Einstein . . . is engaging and timely." —The Jewish Week"A smart, thoughtful, engaging book." —The Portland Oregonian"Charming . . . The book is part of a grand tradition, the writer as participating athlete, reminiscent of George Plimpton taking up football in Paper Lion." —O, The Oprah Magazine"[A] wonderful first book." —Newcity"Fascinating." —Town & Country"For one year, Foer tried to attain total recall, extracting secrets from the top researchers, the real Rain Man, and the worlds memory champs. He triumphed, both in his quest and in this lively account, which is, no exaggeration, unforgettable." —Parade"In recounting his year in training for the USA Memory Championship, journalist Foer delivers a rich history of memory." —Discover Magazine"Foers history of memory is rich with information about the nature of memory and how it makes us who we are." —Scientific American"A brief and pithy recounting of Foers exploration of the fuzzy borders of his brain—a marveling at how and why its able to do something quite unexpected . . . Moonwalking with Einstein fits handily inline with the recent tradition of big idea books." —The Millions"An original, entertaining exploration about how and why we remember." —Kirkus Reviews"An engaging, informative, and for the forgetful, encouraging book." —Booklist"Hard to put down . . . The mind is a bigger thing than any of us realize, and Foer reminds us to keep exploring it." —Barnes & Noble Review"He has thought deeply about memory and his effort yields questions that are well worth reflecting on." —The Daily Beast"Intriguing . . . Foer does an excellent job of tracing the history of the arts of memory." —The Forward"The kind of nonfiction work that gets people talking . . . A highly enjoyable read." —Thirteen.org"You have to love a writer who employs chick-sexing to help explain human memory. Foer is a charmer, a crackling mind, a fresh wind. He approaches a complex topic with so much humanity, humor, and originality that you dont realize how much youre taking in and understanding. Its kind of miraculous." —Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars, Bonk, Spook, and Stiff"Moonwalking with Einstein isnt just a splendid overview of an essential aspect of our humanity—our memory; it is also a witty and engaging account of how Foer went from being a guy with an average memory to winning the USA Memory Championship." —Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational"In this marvelous book, Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungs-roman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory. If you want to understand how we remember, and how we can all learn to remember better, then read this book." —Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor to Wired and author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist"Joshua Foer proves what few of us are willing to get our heads around: theres more room in our brains than we ever imagined. Moonwalking with Einstein isnt a how-to guide to remembering a name or where you put your keys. Its a riveting exploration of humankinds centuries-old obsession with memory, and one mans improbable quest to master his own." —Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic and Word Freak Review Quote "Absolutely phenomenal... Part of the beauty of this book is that it makes clear how memory and understanding are not two different things. Building up the ability to reason and the ability to retain information go hand in hand... The book reminds us that we all start off with pretty much the same tools for the most part, and we can be intentional about strengthening them, or not."--Bill Gates "Captivating. Excerpt from Book There were no other survivors. Family members arriving at the scene of the fifth-century-B.C. banquet hall catastrophe pawed at the debris for signs of their loved ones--rings, sandals, anything that would allow them to identify their kin for proper burial. Minutes earlier, the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos had stood to deliver an ode in celebration of Scopas, a Thessalian nobleman. As Simonides sat down, a messenger tapped him on the shoulder. Two young men on horseback were waiting outside, anxious to tell him something. He stood up again and walked out the door. At the very moment he crossed the threshold, the roof of the banquet hall collapsed in a thundering plume of marble shards and dust. He stood now before a landscape of rubble and entombed bodies. The air, which had been filled with boisterous laughter moments before, was smoky and silent. Teams of rescuers set to work frantically digging through the collapsed building. The corpses they pulled out of the wreckage were mangled beyond recognition. No one could even say for sure who had been inside. One tragedy compounded another. Then something remarkable happened that would change forever how people thought about their memories. Simonides sealed his senses to the chaos around him and reversed time in his mind. The piles of marble returned to pillars and the scattered frieze fragments reassembled in the air above. The stoneware scattered in the debris re-formed into bowls. The splinters of wood poking above the ruins once again became a table. Simonides caught a glimpse of each of the banquet guests at his seat, carrying on oblivious to the impending catastrophe. He saw Scopas laughing at the head of the table, a fellow poet sitting across from him sponging up the remnants of his meal with a piece of bread, a nobleman smirking. He turned to the window and saw the messengers approaching, as if with some important news. Simonides opened his eyes. He took each of the hysterical relatives by the hand and, carefully stepping over the debris, guided them, one by one, to the spots in the rubble where their loved ones had been sitting. At that moment, according to legend, the art of memory was born. ONE THE SMARTEST MAN IS HARD TO FIND Dom DeLuise, celebrity fat man (and five of clubs), has been implicated in the following unseemly acts in my minds eye: He has hocked a fat globule of spittle (nine of clubs) on Albert Einsteins thick white mane (three of diamonds) and delivered a devastating karate kick (five of spades) to the groin of Pope Benedict XVI (six of diamonds). Michael Jackson (king of hearts) has engaged in behavior bizarre even for him. He has defecated (two of clubs) on a salmon burger (king of clubs) and captured his flatulence (queen of clubs) in a balloon (six of spades). Rhea Perlman, diminutive Cheers bartendress (and queen of spades), has been caught cavorting with the seven-foot-seven Sudanese basketball star Manute Bol (seven of clubs) in a highly explicit (and in this case, anatomically improbable) two-digit act of congress (three of clubs). This tawdry tableau, which Im not proud to commit to the page, goes a long way toward explaining the unlikely spot I find myself in at the moment. Sitting to my left is Ram Kolli, an unshaven twenty-five-year-old business consultant from Richmond, Virginia, who is also the defending United States memory champion. To my right is the muzzle of a television camera from a national cable network. Spread out behind me, where I cant see them and they cant disturb me, are about a hundred spectators and a pair of TV commentators offering play-by-play analysis. One is a blow-dried veteran boxing announcer named Kenny Rice, whose gravelly, bedtime voice cant conceal the fact that he seems bewildered by this jamboree of nerds. The other is the Pel Details ISBN0143120530 Author Joshua Foer Short Title MOONWALKING W/EINSTEIN Language English ISBN-10 0143120530 ISBN-13 9780143120537 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 153.14 Subtitle The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-02-28 Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-02-28 NZ Release Date 2012-02-28 US Release Date 2012-02-28 UK Release Date 2012-02-28 Pages 320 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint Penguin USA Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43648698;

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